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When strangers take part in a series of group suicides, everything suggests that a cult is to blame. How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member?
Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They’ve never met. But at the same time, they run, and leap to their deaths. Each of them received a letter in the post that morning, a pre-written suicide note, and a page containing only four words: Nothing important happened today.
That is how they knew they had been chosen to become a part of the People Of Choice: A mysterious suicide cult whose members have no knowledge of one another.
Thirty-two people on that train witness the event. Two of them will be next. By the morning, People Of Choice are appearing around the globe; it becomes a movement. A social media page that has lain dormant for four years suddenly has thousands of followers. The police are under pressure to find a link between the cult members, to locate a leader that does not seem to exist.
How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member?
A shocking, mesmerisingly original and pitch-black thriller, Nothing Important Happened Today confirms Will Carver as one of the most extraordinary, exciting authors in crime fiction.
My thoughts
Please be aware that this story is very dark in nature, it covers suicide and other dark subjects. It's very dark and twisted, yet at the same time it's a very compelling read.
When is a cult not a cult? As the members of this cult, realise that they're members even though they didn't realise that they were in a cult and none of them were aware of one another.
As the nine people completely unrelated in anyway, take their lives at the same time. We are left wondering who or what is behind this event.
Told in short sharp chapters, this story hooks you in from the get go and keeps you reading just that one more and one more chapter. It's so addictive in the way that it's been written.
With lots of twists and plenty of turns, you'll be kept guessing as to what is actually going on and how the different threads of the story are interlinked with one another.
I really enjoyed the style of writing and gave this a solid 4 stars or 8/10. Once you get past the fact that it's quite dark and twisted, it's very addictive too. There I've used the word addictive more than once.
When strangers take part in a series of group suicides, everything suggests that a cult is to blame. How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member?
Nine suicides
One cult
No leader
That is how they knew they had been chosen to become a part of the People Of Choice: A mysterious suicide cult whose members have no knowledge of one another.
Thirty-two people on that train witness the event. Two of them will be next. By the morning, People Of Choice are appearing around the globe; it becomes a movement. A social media page that has lain dormant for four years suddenly has thousands of followers. The police are under pressure to find a link between the cult members, to locate a leader that does not seem to exist.
How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member?
A shocking, mesmerisingly original and pitch-black thriller, Nothing Important Happened Today confirms Will Carver as one of the most extraordinary, exciting authors in crime fiction.
My thoughts
Please be aware that this story is very dark in nature, it covers suicide and other dark subjects. It's very dark and twisted, yet at the same time it's a very compelling read.
When is a cult not a cult? As the members of this cult, realise that they're members even though they didn't realise that they were in a cult and none of them were aware of one another.
As the nine people completely unrelated in anyway, take their lives at the same time. We are left wondering who or what is behind this event.
Told in short sharp chapters, this story hooks you in from the get go and keeps you reading just that one more and one more chapter. It's so addictive in the way that it's been written.
With lots of twists and plenty of turns, you'll be kept guessing as to what is actually going on and how the different threads of the story are interlinked with one another.
I really enjoyed the style of writing and gave this a solid 4 stars or 8/10. Once you get past the fact that it's quite dark and twisted, it's very addictive too. There I've used the word addictive more than once.
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