The Text | Claire Douglas | Book Review

The Text by Claire Douglas Book Review

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A life full of notifications alerts, haptic typing on the keyboard of your smartphone, sending and receiving copious text day and night. But then a term called autocorrect comes into our lives and changes our life completely; it starts correcting things according to its efficiency, which increases the typos and invites farce at our doorstep.

The Text by Claire Douglas is a fast-paced thriller short story, which revolves around the main character of the story, Emily Latimer. She is a working woman who works in an office under her boss Andrew, who is fastidious and hard to handle boss. He is a difficult person in his professional and personal life; in his department, most of his staff doesn't like him.

Emily is planning to go with her friends on a vacation to Edinburgh, but her cruel boss refuses and doesn't give her leave. It singes the brain of Emily and when she is cruising back home in her office buddy's car, she is ranting about her boss Andrew and cursing him all the bad fortune, in the meantime, she is also typing a text to her boyfriend, Stuart, with whom she lives.

She is telling in her text, how her vacation plan goes in a shithole and who is the reason behind it and how that person is godly awful and what that person truly deserves. She fired off the send button without giving it a last glimpse and the text, unfortunately, is sent to her office group with a chaotic typo which brings cops to her doorstep the next day.

Review

I liked the way author Claire Douglas narrated the whole story in a very lucid language, which made the story a fast-paced thriller and I loved these kinds of stories that flow like blood in veins.

It is just a 40-page short story but it succeeds to put the spotlight on things like; jealousy, love, freedom, friendship, office romance which made this short story book a full package of mystery. However, the main highlights of this short story are physical abuse and toxic relationships.

If you have been neglecting reading books for months and now you need a quick motivation to indulge yourself back into the world of books, then you should start with a short story, and this book is a good option for that. Even if you're reading or doing something which becomes a pain in the neck and makes you yawn, then you should bring a cup of coffee and start reading this short story. Highly recommended for beginners.

-Abhi Panwar

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