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dramatically chilling, tensionfilled pageturner,

SUMMARY
Alex, an ER doctor meets Austin for the first time on a Saturday night when he is brought into the emergency room with a bullet in his arm.
Six months later they travel to Vietnam together, on a bike tour so the Austin can pay his respects to the place where his father and uncle fought in the Vietnam war.
At least thats what Austin told Alex,

As Alex waits for Austin at the hotel in Vietnam, she becomes increasingly alarmed when his does not return from his day of cycling at the expected time.
He is not answering his phone and a search of his route yields little, He has vanished into thin air and the only evidence were two yellow packets of energy gel, found on the road that might have belonged to Austin.
Alex calls the U. S. Embassy in Vietnam and soon discovers several lies that force her to question exactly what Alex was doing on that bike ride.


REVIEW
Once again, CHRIS BOHJALIAN has knocked the ball out of the park, THE RED LOTUS is a dramatically chilling pageturner, Its wellwritten and smartly structured with shifting points of view, that will keep you guessing till the very end, Who is responsible for Austins disappearance Why

The story is tensionfilled, poignant and timely and I couldnt read it fast enough.
I was so enthralled that I read thispage thriller all in one day,

Bohjalian has a delightful knack for writing strong but vulnerable women characters, Alexs character is no different, Shes smart, suspicious and persistent in her search to find out what happened to Austin, But she is also grieving and struggling, and all of this together makes her come alive on the pages,

One of my favorite things about THE RED LOTUS is on several occasions in the story Bohjalian made me want to “learn more” about a word, phase or topic, so I found myself googling references.
I absolutely love it when a book goes beyond being highly entertaining but is also unintentionally, perhaps educational as well,

Author CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the bestselling author ofbooks including most recently The Sleepwalkerand The Flight Attendant, which is being turned into a limited HBO television series staring Kaley Cuoco.


Thanks to Netgalley and Doubleday Books for an advance reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.


Publisher Doubleday Books
Published March,
sitelinkwww, bluestockingreviews. com I pre paid for this novel many months ago, . .
Started it as soon as it arrived,
Gorgeous book cover! Love the man who wrote it,
I like many of Chriss books! A few have been disappointing, as this one was.

I couldnt stay interested in the storytelling my mind drifted I was bored, . .
not even a bike a bike jersey or cycling could spark a twinkle out of me,

Dull . very dull!

Note: quicktothepoint reviews from me for the next few weeks, . .
Paul and are in the heat of concerns due to the complete lockdown of this coronavirus,
This is a very hard time for us right now weve been hit hard living in a complete lockdown area no income coming in we have serious health and financial worries for our family ourselves our friends and the global world at large.


I just cant do “business as normal right now, Forgive me.

Wishing people good health, .
. . financial security basic comforts and needs!!!


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DNF p.




I read one hundred pages of this, hoping it would grab me but it

never did, Alexis and Austin met in the ER when Alexis removed a bullet wound from Austin's arm, Six months later and they are dating and going on vacation to Vietnam to bicycle, and then Austin is accosted by strange men in the wilderness and disappears.
Alexis is in her hotel room, fretting and drinking wine, when she finds out that he's missing,



The narrative is just so slowpaced and plodding, I thought the scenes with Austin were better, and somewhat chilling, but they were spaced out too much and I hated Alexis.
This almost reads like a debut novel because the pacing is so weird, and I was really surprised to see that the author has actually published a whole bunch of stuff besides this.
I guess if you're into slower mysteries, this might work for you, but I was really bored,



YMMV,



Thanks to the publisher for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review!



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tostars Alexis is an emergency room doctor in a New York City hospital, One evening she treats Austin for injuries related to a bullet wound incurred at a bar, The two have never met before but he works in the same hospital, Eventually, they become romantically involved, Six months into their relationship, they go on vacation to Vietnam where Austin is planning a bike tour,

Austin takes a ride one morning to the area where his father and uncle served in the war, Alexis becomes concerned when he does not return and is unreachable by phone, Eventually, the local police find his body on the side of the road, They conclude that he was killed in a hit and run accident, When Alexis views his body, she suspects that his hand injuries would not have resulted from this type of collision, She returns home and decides to hire an investigator and sort out Austin's mysterious life,

The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian is a mystery full of twists and turns, As the details begin to get unveiled the story explodes into a suspenseful tale that has relevance to our current environment, I have enjoyed previous books by this author and look forward to his future novels,
" he would be called, with the gallows humor of the beleaguered who fear that death is but a sneeze distant, the Rat King.
"

A timely global thriller that hits all the right notes in the current atmosphere basically it's a suspenseful story about a plague bacteria carried by rats.
So, if you are triggered by reading about rats, you definitely are going to want to avoid this, There's a lot of detail,

But, back to the story, A young man, Austin Harper, works at a large university hospital in New York in the fundraising and development wing, His girlfriend, ER physician, Alexis Remnick, accompanies him on a trip to Vietnam, ostensibly on a bike tour but Austin claims he also wants to find the sites there where his uncle died and his father was wounded when they were posted there during the Vietnam War.
When Austin doesn't return to the Villa Haldina Hotel in Hoi An after a solo bike ride one afternoon, Alexis contacts the local police and the Consulate.
When the FBI legal attaché stationed at the US embassy gets involved the search for the missing Austin Harper shifts into high gear.
As things evolve, Alexis discovers that she did not know Austin well at all and it turns out that he was involved with something completely unexpected and terribly wrong.
NO SPOILERS.

Just go ahead read this now, I really enjoyed it, not only because of the medical and science facts which I love, but the story is fastpaced and so realistic.
The anticipation of what was going to happen kept me flipping the pages and I only wish I could have had a couple of hours to read it all in one sitting as I was always thinking about what was going to happen next whenever I had to put it down.
Chris Bohjalian is an excellent writer I've read every one of his books and he always manages to surprise me by tackling so many different topics and does an incredible amount of research.
I learned a lot about rats and disease I'll be thinking about all the possibilities and suffer some anxiety for awhile, I thought he did a good job of giving us characters that were interesting and relatable, I was going to wait to read this closer to publication date, but the lure was too strong and I succumbed,

Thank you to NetGalley and Doubleday Books for this ebook ARC to read, review and recommend, .