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The Bluffs

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Submitted by a verified resident of the apartment community. Participating residents may receive reward points in exchange for posting a review during their lease term, regardless of the nature of the review. English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–Vietnamese Schoolgirls disappearing in the bush, what does that remind you of?? Did you even read Joan Lindsay and what happened to you, Kyle, at school??

And then, there’s the sexual relationships. Oh dear… Well, there is that Aussie joke that everyone in Tassie is having sex with their relatives…

There is a strong sense of action and urgency that pervades The Bluffs from the get-go. If this book was a character, I would best describe it as highly strung. There is tension around every corner in The Bluffs. The sense of imminent danger that follows this book never releases. It takes a skilled writer to maintain such a consistent level of biting atmosphere for the entire length of the novel, so I am very impressed by this debut author’s skill in this area.

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The Bluffs Grand Ho Tram Strip welcomes members and guests from within Vietnam as well as visitors from around the world. The story is told from three different points of view. There’s Murphy’s, the father of one of the missing girls who just so happens to also be the local drug dealer. There is Con, the lead detective assigned to the case. And the third is Eliza, the teacher who was looking after the girls on the hike the day they went missing.

Due to the weather, The Bluffs is currently closed. We will re-open on Wednesday, November 1 at noon. This is the debut novel from the author, and I think it’s a pretty decent first novel. The storyline is all thriller with just a hint of supernatural – is ‘The Hungry Man’ real, and if he is then is he a supernatural entity? The character perspectives primarily alternate between Eliza the teacher, Con the ‘incomer’ detective, and Murphy the local drug dealer and father of one of the missing girls: all have their own dramas going on aside from the current missing girls. Madison the teenage YouTube sensation features a lot in everyone’s chapters: what an extraordinarily unlikable teenage girl she was, that held an unbelievable amount of power and control over other characters. The Bluffs is an atmospheric and unnerving mystery set in Tasmania. I love that you have the supernatural elements in this story that will keep you guessing. Detective Senior Sergeant Con Badenhorst and his colleague Detective Sergeant Gabriella Pakinga arrive from Launceston to investigate the disappearances. Transferred from Sydney to the quiet of rural Tasmania, Badenhorst suffers from PTSD, which he keeps secret from co-workers. Keeping secrets is a key element in this mystery novel, and almost everyone is hiding something, and is not what they seem. Additionally, we include the military clause in all of our leases and strive to make clear what is required to break the lease. If our team failed you in this regard, I am deeply saddened to hear that. We are extremely proud to say that 80% of our entire team is military as well. This includes veterans, spouses, and national guard. Of course, we love our community and all of the soldiers it serves. If you would like to discuss this further, you are more than welcome to reach out to me personally at [email protected]

Eliza made me want to slap her for most of the book. Everything about her grated on my nerves. Again though, everything surrounding her and the school teachers seemed unrealistic, not to mention completely inappropriate. If adult teachers carry on like this, the next generation are doomed. An expert cop joins a local one to investigate the disappearances. They buddy up with the two most likely suspects, treating them as assistants and filling them in on most things including bringing them to witness interviews. Wait what? This is a debut novel so I will hold my tongue suffice to say the investigation aspect of the mystery was highly implausible. The writing itself was good. I am not going to go into too much detail about the plot. There is missing teenagers, drug dealers, love affairs, social media, bullying, corrupt police and the Hungry Man legend. It is set in Tasmania, in the Great Western Tiers. The small town of Limestone Creek becomes the centre of attention for all the wrong reasons. The weather is bad, making it eerie and even darker. Similarly undeserving of my regard is Madison Mason, the bitchy, manipulative 16 yo girl who is friends with the schoolmates who have vanished. Madison has her own YouTube channel and is constantly using her smartphone to create video stories for her enormous number of online fans. Her interference in the search for the lost girls is despicable and the source of much tension in the novel. Madison has to be one of the most unpleasant characters I’ve encountered in fiction novels, and I have to give credit to the author for his creation of such a memorable personality.

Four teenage girls disappear from a school group taking part in a camping activity in Tasmania's ruggedly beautiful but treacherous Great Western Tiers. Their teacher, Eliza Ellis, is found hiding in the bush, injured and confused, but there is no trace of the girls. Locals fear that the disappearances may herald the return of the fabled "Hungry Man", a spectre who inhabits the bush and is supposed responsible for the unsolved disappearance of a group of girls thirty years ago. I really wanted to love this book and in the beginning I did. Perry described the Tasmanian bush in a beautiful and haunting light that really set the scene for the whole book. I can see that Perry obviously tried to incorporate Aboriginal history and perspective however I feel that truly fell short for me which is one of the reasons I disliked the book in the end. Another reason is the depth of the characters, other than Con and Murphy I really felt the other characters were flat and one-dimensional, especially Jasmine who I thought I would really like and someone we would follow the journey of. The Bluffs had some good twists and turns through the middle but the final chapter was more disappointing than I was anticipating.We are thrown into small town life where each moment is important. All the details are important, but it is so fast paced, blink and you will miss something. The detail that Perry has gone into for this book is immense, as is the research he must have done. The folklore, forensics, police work, physcology. And it all pays off. It gives The Bluffs dimension and depth. Perry offers twist upon twist at the end here and I really didn’t see many of them coming. In fact, the plot (once I got past what I ‘thought’ it was going to be) is a clever one. Perry’s reflection of the lives of young people in small towns is insightful and I liked his use of contemporary culture (YouTube etc).



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