Bradstreet Gate

A tour de force debut about a campus murder for readers of Donna Tartt, Meg Wolitzer, and Jeffrey EugenidesGeorgia, Charlie and Alice each arrive at Harvard with hopeful visions of what the future will hold But when, just before graduation, a classmate is found murdered on campus, they find themselves facing a cruel and unanticipated new reality Moreover, a charismatic professor who has loomed large in their lives is suspected of the crime Though his guilt or innocence remains uncertain, the unsettling questions raised by the case force the three friends to take a deeper look at their tangled relationship Their bond has been defined by the secrets they ve kept from one another Charlie s love and Alice s envy, Georgia s mysterious affair and over the course of the next decade, as they grapple with the challenges of adulthood and witness the unraveling of a teacher s once charmed life, they must reckon with their own deceits and shortcomings, each desperately in search of answers and the chance to be forgiven.A relentless, incisive, and keenly intelligent novel about promise, disappointment, and the often tenuous bonds of friendship, Bradstreet Gate is the auspicious debut of a tremendously talented new writer. New Read Bradstreet Gate by Robin Kirman For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr comparisons between this book and The Secret History can only be made by a person who missed the whole point of The Secret History while squinting in a blackout and probably drunk it does involve a murder on a campus, a professor character, and a yearning by characters outside the moneyed class to fit in and rub shoulders with those who have wealth and power but having some of the elements of a thing does not make it equal to that thingit s a decent book, but like the platypus, it s not sure comparisons between this book and The Secret History can only be made by a person who missed the whole point of The Secret History while squinting in a blackout and probably drunk it does involve a murder on a campus, a professor character, and a yearning by characters outside the moneyed class to fit in and rub shoulders with those who have wealth and power but having some of the elements of a thing does not make it equal to that thingit s a decent book, but like the platypus, it s not sure what it s meant to be it s bound to lose the mystery audience when it fails to deliver the momentum and pacing of a mystery, view spoiler and when it bails on the resolution hide spoiler unfortunately, that s one of the few genres where having a number of central characters who are all unlikeable isn t a det...Bradstreet Gate is an incredibly bad book I can t even count all the ways this collection of incidents fails If I could give it a zero, I would.For my records, I will just say that it s about three Harvard students a troubled Serbian girl, a troubled working class boy, and the troubled daughter of a famous photographer They meet and develop unhealthy attachments to one another The boy and the artist s daughter are both co dependently involved with a trouble professor from a family of Virgin Bradstreet Gate is an incred...ARC for review The cover blurb makes comparisons to both The Secret History and The Interestings, but other than the fact they involve friends and a college environment there s not much similarity.in fact, there s not much of anything Charlie, Georgia and Alice are all Harvard students and are friendsfor awhile at least The plot here is that one of their professors, the bon vivant Rufus Storrow might have bee... Bradstreet Gate is about three Harvard students, Georgia, Charlie and Alice a professor, Rufus Storrow and a murdered girl, Julie Patel It opens ten years after Julie s death, with a journalist doorstepping Georgia and telling her there have been new developments in the still unsolved case We then flash back to the beginning of all this, to the immediate aftermath of the murder, and chapters devoted to each character explore what led them to Harvard About half the book dwells on what happ Bradstreet Gate is about three Harvard students, Georgia, Charlie and Alice a professor, Rufus Storrow and a murdered girl, Julie Patel It opens ten years after Julie s death,...I am plodding through this plodder It s uninterestingly written with absolutely no sense of pacing Dull as dishwater He did this Then she did that Ugh I bought it for half price, fortunately because I had been chomping at the bit ever since several reviews compared it to my favorite book, The Secret History by Donna Tartt This is nothing NOTHING like The Secret History I get no sense of the characters I get no sense of tension building Halfway through, the character who is su I am plodding through this plodder It s uninterestingly written with absolutely no sense of pacing Dull as dishwater He did this Then she did that Ugh I bought it for half price, fortunately because I had been chomping at the bit ever since several reviews compared it to my favorite book, The Secret History by Donna Tartt This is nothing NOTHING like The Secret History I get no sense of the characters I get no sense of tension building Halfway through, the character who is supposed to be such a b...After reading the overview description of this book I was so excited to read this love triangle, murder mystery Once I started reading, I was disappointed The book was boring and I skimmed most of book I felt indifference for the characters and was bored with the storyline There is not much action or mystery The book is mostly about the lives of 3 teenagers that grow up and get older There wasn t even much talk of the murder or the victim By th...The reviews on this are all over the place but I enjoyed it I don t agree with the comparison to A Secret History but it kept me reading Bradstreet Gate explores the lives of three friends and a professor who are all tied to the murder of a Harvard student It looks at the dark side of ambition and hero worship The characters are all dysfunctional but managi...I tried so hard to like this book, and I just couldn t get through the writing style I realize the affair was supposed to sound creepy, and he was supposed to seem predatory with a secret, but so much of the characterization was too heavy handed ie Look what I did He s suspicious because of the pool stalking Look he s going to come undone because he has a bow tie and a girl who doesn t dress formally and the prologue was just wholly misguided Weird setting to start at a campus novel doe I tried so hard to like this book, and I just couldn t get through the writing style I realize the affair was supposed to sound creepy, and he was supposed to seem predatory with a secret, but so much of the characterization was too heavy handed ie Look what I did He s suspicious because of the pool stalking Look he s going to come undone because he has a bow tie and a girl who...3.5 This debut novel has a 2.77 average rating here on Goodreads What went wrong If you ask most people, it s because the book s supposed similarity to Donna Tartt s The Secret History set them up to have their sky high expectations disappointed Now, I like Donna Tartt as much as the next person I ve read her first two novels and have been saving up The Goldfinch for my Christmas read this year But I don t idolize her like some do, so I quite enjoyed Bradstreet Gate You can certainly see 3.5 This debut novel has a 2.77 average rating here on Goodreads What went wrong If you ask most people, it s because the book s supposed similarity to Donna Tartt s The Secret History set them up to have their sky high expectations disappointed Now, I like Donna Tartt as much as the ...First of all Bradstreet Gate WILL suffer because of the insistence on the connection to The Secret History I would strongly advise putting that comparison out of your mind before going into this one because for me, it just doesn t hold water Its that thing that because this novel deals with a group dynamic within a University setting and there is a murder, that it must necessarily be Secret History like It isn t I don t think it s even TRYING to be So there s that.So Bradstreet Gate then, First of all Bradstreet Gate WILL suffer because of the insistence on the connection to The Secret History I would strongly advise putting that comparison out of your mind before going into this one because for me, it...

• English
• 18 August 2018
Robin Kirman
• Hardcover
• 320 pages
• 0804139318
• Robin Kirman
• Bradstreet Gate