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Old 06-30-2025, 02:40 PM   #3951
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Originally Posted by Renate View Post
Rant: The problem with all mystery type things is that sometimes the foreshadowing is done with a sledge hammer.
I read one recently where it was a serial killer who broke into homes to grab the victim and then would dispose of the body somewhere public. There were always a short description of "life before the break-in" where you were supposed to become emotionally attached to the soon-to-be victim, who was always sure there was something bad outside. Since the book was very much a police procedural, those scenes should never have existed.

The interesting part was reading another book not long after that with similar scenes (with the character sensing something bad outside), and I was just waiting for the discovery of the body. Instead, almost all of those scenes just turned into the first time you met some significant character who wasn't a victim. Very refreshing.
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