On the third day, excitement and suspense built up as we approached the first of 1,200 steps leading up to La Ciudad Perdida.
A terrible suspense builds up in this book, as Lev's sentence nears its end.
The caper that follows has all of Westlake's trademarks: "an ample supply of silliness and suspense wrapped up in a wacky plot," Carol Peace Robins said here last year.
Hawkins juggles perspectives and timescales with great skill, and considerable suspense builds up along with empathy for an unusual central character who does not immediately grab the reader.
This subgenre of jocklit relies on the reader's selective amnesia, pages of manufactured suspense building up to a surprise ending already known to everyone.
I think that keeps the suspense level up, because if I don't know where the story is going probably the reader doesn't know either.
Suspense builds up until (*spoiler alert*) Mount Vesuvius erupts in a red column of flame, showering fiery rain down on the children and forcing them to flee for their lives.
What they say "Hawkins juggles perspectives and time scales with great skill, and considerable suspense builds up along with empathy for an unusual central character who does not immediately grab the reader".
Mystery and suspense bubble up from the most unsuspecting landscape photos.
Inexplicably, a film that draws its strength from humor and suspense, winds up being more moving the second time through.
