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And here's the summary:
Four women – intimate with the psychology of evil – work together for a small nonprofit that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them receive death threats, they immediately believe the messages come from one of their recently profiled war criminals. As the tensions mount among the women, each discovers that none of the others is exactly the person they seem to be. Their obsession with tracking down the killer turns into a witch hunt: one by one, the women dismiss the idea that the threats were sent from the outside and begin to suspect each other, disclosing the jealousies and contempt that have been simmering just beneath the surface.
A tautly woven philosophical drama with all the trimmings of an electrifying murder mystery, The Exception heralds Christian Jungersen as a gifted storyteller and keen observer of the human psyche.
Holy shit guys. This book was awesome. It had me on the edge of my seat, tensed up, racing through every word. There were so many twists, I thought I had figured out who sent the emails like 5 times. He even had a great wrap up at the end which made me question AGAIN who had done it, but I wasn't even mad about it. Normally I hate a questionable ending; this just kind of made me go "huh."
He also threw in a bunch of genocidal information that was very interesting and seemed really well researched, though thoroughly depressing.
The only issue I had was that one of the characters has rheumatoid arthritis and it was basically her whole identity. It was completely debilitating after like 6 years of being diagnosed (ok fine, could happen, not everyone has the same "journey" as me). Jungersen said there was no treatment for it (technically true I guess) but she took methotrexate and steroids and still had crazy bad flare ups. She even had some sort of surgery at one point? Which maybe is a real thing, I didn't look into it. Ok, that's really my only complaint.
Jungersen had me so wrapped up in these relationships and lives, with and without the thriller part of it. I finally got back to a book that really enthralled me, and I'm ramping the challenge back up!
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