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    The Night Market
    The Night Market
    The Night Market
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    The Night Market

    Written by Jonathan Moore

    Narrated by James Patrick Cronin

    3.5/5

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    It's late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city's last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that's eating through his skin. Before Carver can identify it, six FBI agents burst in and remove him from the premises. He's pushed into a disinfectant trailer, forced to drink a liquid that sends him into seizures, and is shocked unconscious. On Sunday he wakes in his bed to find his neighbor, Mia-who he's barely ever spoken to-reading aloud to him. He can't remember the crime scene or how he got home; he has no idea two days have passed. Mia says she saw him being carried into their building by plainclothes police officers, who told her he'd been poisoned. Carver doesn't really know this woman and has no way of disproving her, but his gut says to keep her close.

    A mind-bending, masterfully plotted thriller-written in Moore's "lush, intoxicating style" (Justin Cronin)-that will captivate fans of Blake Crouch, China Mieville, and Lauren Beukes, The Night Market follows Carver as he works to find out what happened to him, soon realizing he's entangled in a web of conspiracy that spans the nation. And that Mia may know a lot more than she lets on.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJan 16, 2018
    ISBN9781681685847
    Author

    Jonathan Moore

    JONATHAN MOORE lives in Hawaii with his wife and son, and is the author of five books. Before completing law school in New Orleans, he was an English teacher, a bar owner, a raft guide, a counselor at a Texas wilderness camp for juvenile delinquents, and an investigator for a criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C.

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    • 3/5
      I find that listening to a book and reading it are two very different experiences. This review is based on the listening experience. I had a difficult time with this book since it was read on an intermittent basis. Set in the indeterminate dystopian future, it had me off kilter from the beginning since a reality was never established. In this way, it mirrored our current reality in a disturbing way. What is real or merely a perception? I think this is what the author hoped to elicit. As it was, though, I was left unsettled and not particularly fond of the book.
    • 4/5
      You ever read a book where you just have to slow down and let all the details sink in? The Night Market was that type of book for me. Despite being a fast-paced plot where there is pressure to find out who exactly is behind the conspiracy before time runs out, the details were ones that I found myself savoring. The setting is a dystopian San Francisco where civilization is fractured into those who have and those who have not. There is barely any order and in-between it all trying to maintain some sense of order are Inspectors Carver & Jenner. I found this setting to be dark, gritty, and intriguing. It is almost a nightmarish world but there are some grey parts which keep it from descending into complete chaos.The main character in The Night Market is Ross Carver and everything that takes place centers around him and his neighbor Mia. Mia is very unusual and Carver knows there is much that she is not sharing with him, especially after he wakes up with no memory of what had taken place that led him to where he was, and so he decides to keep her close. As Mia explains more and more about what is really taking place behind the scenes Carver starts to see a conspiracy that is so grandiose that it is almost unfathomable. That is what will keep you hanging on chapter after chapter, the details of what is truly taking place comes to you like a thread that you slowly tease out. Plus, the focus on shopping and mercantilism makes it so real because it almost feels like it is already taking place today.I found the conspiracy and what was actually taking place to be most fascinating and horrific. Just the thought of that ever being a possibility adds an element of real horror to this story for me but at the same time it was cool, just as long as that never really happens to me, lol! What I appreciated the most in this book was the overall vibe. There was a dark and almost oppressive atmosphere to this story which lent very well to a hard-boiled fiction feel, except that Carver was a cop and not a PI like you would find in that genre. The story was thought provoking and although I could have done without the level of romance element that was built into this story I truly enjoyed my time in The Night Market.This review is based on a complimentary book I received from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It is an honest and voluntary review. The complimentary receipt of it in no way affected my review or rating.
    • 3/5
      Wasn’t a big fan of how the book ended. Liked the book up until the end
    • 5/5
      This is the third book of a trilogy of thrillers set in San Francisco written by Jonathan Moore. I received an audio copy for a honest review. I decided to listen to the first two books on audio too and I would have to say that I really do enjoy Jonathan's writing. His first book was a psychological thriller entitled The Poison Artist. The second book was a police procedural entitled The Dark Room and this one is a science fiction/dystopian story. Science fiction and dystopian are not my usual genre but I thought this one to be a very unique read. Inspector Ross Carver and his partner, Jenner, are at a crime scene and the dead man is covered by an unknown substance that is eating through his skin. Carver is then placed in a decontamination trailer, forced to drink a liquid that sends him into seizures and then drugged unconscious. He wakes up a few days later and finds his neighbor, Mia, reading aloud to him and he can't remember what happened to him. I found this book to be exquisitely plotted and very entertaining. The characters are very interesting too. You will have to read this book and find out all the creepy and scary things that happened to Carver and his partner, Jenner. I thought the reader, James Patrick Cronin, did an excellent job too. He has a very pleasant voice which held my attention. I will definitely seek out more books by Jonathan Moore and I would highly recommend this book to those who love mystery books with a little bit of romance too.I would like to thank the publisher for sending me an audio book for an honest review.
    • 3/5
      It is partially mystery, partially science fiction, with a futuristic conspiracy theme that produces horrifying implications. The best I can say is that it was an entertaining read with likable characters that you can really care about, but the plot was very weird. I'm still not entirely sure what happened.
    • 3/5
      Ross Carver is an inspector with the San Francisco police force, in a near future setting that finds most of the city without electricity, streets full of debris, and houses falling down. Ross awakens on a Sunday afternoon to find he is being cared for by a neighbor he barely knows, and not being able to remember what happened since his last work-related investigation on Thursday evening. Both he and his partner Jenner seem to be having some serious health issues, and as Ross's memories begin to slowly return, he remembers seeing a dead man covered with some kind of unknown substance that was eating his skin. And the neighbor Mia is of little help, only able to tell him that he was brought home by plainclothes officers. As the story progresses, Ross begins to suspect that Mia may know more than she had led him to believe.This was a well-developed story, a gripping tale, and interesting characters, although I felt the romance that was thrown into the mix was totally unnecessary, and even a little too convenient. This was my first book by Jonathan Moore, and I will certainly consider reading others by him. Thanks to Library Thing for providing me an audio copy of this book.
    • 4/5
      I am unsure exactly what to say about Jonathan Moore's The Night Market. My feelings fluctuated from one extreme to the other while listening (I had the audio CD version) so have tried to base my rating on the feeling I have a couple days after finishing, which is largely positive even if somewhat ill at ease.While I thought the narration was good (I think gritty stories need a gritty rather than a conversational voice) I think this is a book I would have preferred to read. In fact, I would have preferred paper to e-format. I like to pay attention to a book, whether written or audio form, so the extent of what I will do while listening is exercise, drive, maybe cleaning around the house. I found I wanted to sit and listen closely with this one and there were still times when I wanted to slow it down. Not the reading, it was clear and not rushed, but I wanted to digest some of it before going on but it becomes a pain to do that with audio unless you always want to break when the reading breaks.There were, as others have mentioned, some confusing elements or at least things that might not causally have made sense. I do think they were largely ironed out by the end but I would like to actually read some parts to make things a little more clear in my mind. This is, very broadly speaking, about technology and its potential abuse, about people and their ability to be inhuman, yet also about the humanity that survives, if not in everyone, at least in some.I would recommend this but I think I would suggest a print or ebook copy (I would opt for print). If you listen to a lot of books and have gotten used to following closely then I think the narration was good, so the audio version will be fine. I don't listen to that many books, maybe 5-7 of my about 150 books a year are audio books, so I haven't developed the listening acuity I think is needed for this book. The audio is divided into 5 minute tracks so there is actually ample opportunity to pause and reflect.Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
    • 2/5
      This was a book with some interesting ideas, but rather poorly executed. Quite frankly, when it was all said and done, I'm not really sure what the point of the technology that was presented was. Therefore, the primary plot seemed muddled.We start out with a couple of homicide detectives who arrive at the scene of a death, but the person who just died has severely deteriorated. Moments later, the FBI show up in hazmat suits and usher the detectives into a trailer to be given antidotes.At this point I think, cool, a bio-terror story.Next thing we know, one of the detectives wakes up several days later having recalled little of what just happened. Now he and his partner are chasing thugs in Chinatown (which doesn't seem to have much to do with what happened at the beginning). Along the way our main detective protagonist, Carver, meets Mia, who's helped him recover. She finally reveals that people are flocking to buy senseless products because some company has implanted everyone with nanobots, which have embedded themselves in people's brains. These bots respond to specialized advertisements that cause their hosts to do whatever they can to buy the products.Now, I'm thinking, OK, maybe this is a story about insidious CEOs and the rise of individualized marketing strategies.It all sort of comes together in the end, but not in a very convincing way. In the hands of someone like Michael Crichton (RIP) the ideas could have been pulled off much better.I thank LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program for sending me the audio book for review.And on that note, I wish American male narrators would learn a thing or two from Jim Dale, the narrator of the Harry Potter books. You don't have to read the books in a deep, heavily melodramatic tone. Just read the words in a conversational way. Stop all the heavy-handed narration.
    • 4/5
      My San Francisco is not this dark and depressing. I received this as a book on CD. It was an ok story. But at times it was a struggle. The whole thing revolves around Inspector Carver investigating a possible murder and the FBI takes over. From then on he is trying to separate truth from what his mind says he experienced. Sounds like my 75 year old life.
    • 3/5
      Interesting premise, but the plot lagged in places. Very dark, very noir; this darkly futuristic thriller is unique and inventive. When Inspector Carver went to work Thursday night, he had no idea what horror was about to unfold. The only problem is, when he wakes up days later he has no recollection of what happened. He has a niggling suspicion at the back of his mind that not everything adds up, so he, his partner (who also, has glaring gaps in his memory) work together to try and piece together what they must have uncovered. Somehow, Carver's reclusive neighbor comes into play, and they must journey to the seedy underground to unravel a conspiracy that threatens not just them or their city, but the entire nation. Wildly imaginative, and fun. I just wish the story kept moving at a breakneck pace, it was a little slow at moments.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book as I have been working where the story takes place, in San Francisco.
    • 4/5
      Ross Carver is a homicide detective in San Francisco. One night he and his partner are called to a crime scene in which a body is found, seemingly being eaten alive by some sort of poisonous substance. Before they can fully process the scene, they are whisked away by men in Hazmat suits and decontaminated without any explanation whatsoever. Several days later, Ross wakes up with absolutely no memory at all of the crime scene, but with his neighbor, Mia (whom he's never actually met before) beside his bed, taking care of him. As he struggles to come to terms with & tries to reconstruct the days missing from his memory, he also doesn't know whether or not to trust Mia. Is she really trying to help him or does she know more than she's letting on?The first half of this novel really piqued my interest, and as a reader, you know some background that the main character does not. Yet you don't know the details behind what really happened, and you begin to gradually unravel things as the main character does. I liked that aspect of the book, and for the most part I thought it was written well. The story takes place in San Francisco, but it's a dark San Francisco, one that is similar to present day, but not exactly. In this novel's world, there is a dystopian feel, mixed with some science fiction elements and an overall "Big Brother" atmosphere. Much more of this comes to light in the second half of the novel, but at the same time, it starts to become a little confusing and maybe a little bit over the top. Some of the pieces of the plot, though interesting and intriguing, didn't seem to fit together quite right. The ending left me unsettled and a little bit creeped out. I was not familiar with this author prior to reading this book. This is the third novel in a series of books by Jonathan Moore that are set in San Francisco, apparently each with a different "feel". Though I thought this one could've been tightened up quite a bit, I enjoyed it for the most part, enough so that I am interested in reading the previous two novels.(*I received this as an audiobook directly through the publisher as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program. The 8th and final disc was empty -- I had to get my hands on a written copy in order to finish the book.)
    • 4/5
      The book starts out rather usual for the genre; homicide detectives Carver and Jenner get dispatched to a house when a patrol unit calls in a dead body. They find a horrific crime scene, but then find themselves being hustled out of the house by authorities they didn't call.Carver wakes up in his apartment with his neighbor sitting in the room with him and with no memory of the previous events--so we, as the readers, are put in the odd situation of knowing something about the plot that the main characters don't know, even though we don't quite know how it factors into the overall story.Something that's never explained is why Jenner recovered more quickly than Carver (when it appeared that they'd gone through the same experience at the same time). I received this title from LibraryThing's Early Reviewers Group in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      This review is for the audiobook from HighBridge Recorded Books; eight compact discs, ten hours. In the near future, Ross Carver and Cleve Jenner, detectives with the San Francisco Police Department, investigate a homicide. They find a body covered with an unknown substance; hazard-suited men rush in and take them away to be decontaminated. The two men wake up days later feeling extremely ill and achy . . . and with no memory of what happened. Surprised to discover his neighbor, Mia Westcott, sitting at his bedside reading to him, Ross finds himself trying to recover his memories. As the enigmatic Mia joins Ross and Cleve, their search for the truth leads them into hidden agendas and unexpected catastrophe.Very loosely connected to the author’s earlier “The Poison Artist” and “The Dark Room” as the third book in a trilogy, the story, with characters keeping secret agendas, is pure noir mystery in a science fiction setting. Murky memories, conspiracies, and puzzles abound in this compellingly-told tale; with the convoluted twists and turns in the plot, readers may find it difficult to predict the outcome before its reveal.Massive shopping malls, glow card ads, and deteriorating, desolate neighborhoods looted by copper and brick thieves give readers a strong sense of place in a near future that displays insidious, but chillingly believable, changes. The darkness of this world, coupled with the many coincidences and convenient connections throughout the story, may be a trifle off-putting for some readers; nevertheless, the writing is captivating.The narration by James Patrick Cronin is first-rate; enhancing the telling of the tale is a sense of dreaminess that threads itself throughout the narrative and contributes to the intrigue.I received a free copy of the audiobook through the LibraryThing Early Readers program
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. Dark and bleak; it was a perfect read for a snowy winter evening. Believable and well-developed characters. Left me wanting more!
    • 4/5
      San Francisco PD Inspector Ross Carver is called out to a crime scene in a posh neighborhood. No sooner do he and his partner discover a dead body covered in a bizarre substance than they are hustled out by FBI agents in hazmat suits, decontaminated and forced to drink something that sends him into seizures and knocks him out. Carver awakes in his own bed nearly 3 days later being read to by his neighbor Mia and missing his memory of the last 3 days. The Night Market by Jonathan Moore wastes no time in setting the tone for this fascinating and genre-bending book.Carver barely knows Mia and is not sure he can trust her. He keeps her close during his attempts to recover his memory. Each step broadens the mystery and leads him toward a conspiracy that may be deeper and more far-reaching than he could have imagined.Moore has created a near-future San Francisco that feels both familiar and disconcerting. It doesn’t feel like our world, but it only feels a beat or two off. His expertly created mood permeates the novel and keeps you off-balance throughout. Carver’s doubts become your doubts. As Carver and Mia, along with Carver’s partner Jenner, learn more about what has happened and what is going on, the story picks up momentum that runs all the way to the final page. The revelations are shocking but they feel earned. Moore leaves you with a sense of tragedy, but also hope. The Night Market has great characters, great plot, and a very evocative setting and mood. Comparisons to the works of Blake Crouch, China Mieville and Lauren Beukes are apt. It also reminded me in some aspects of the movie Dark City. This is a standout novel and an author worth following. Highly recommended.I was fortunate to receive an advance copy of this book from the publisher.