![]() ![]() She’s not sure why the most powerful government in the world wants her eliminated, but she has a knack for avoiding their detection. She’s leveraging her skills as a former biologist-cum-terrorist interrogator to stay alive, donning androgynous disguises, sleeping in a bathtub with a gas mask and outfitting her apartment with Kevin McCallister-type booby-traps that would leave Joe Pecsi and Daniel Stern for dead. However, the Molecular Biologist was probably too big a mouthful.” The same can be said about the novel itself: adult thriller isn’t an accurate-enough genre designation for this baggy 500-pager–it’s suffering an identity crisis.Īlex has lived her life in perpetual hiding ever since her former employer-a clandestine subsidiary of the US government-set three hired guns to eliminate her. As Meyer writes: “The Chemist really wasn’t the proper code name for her at all. ![]() But while Meyer has succeeded in writing a headstrong heroine, much about her new book is less definitive, starting with the character’s code name. The Chemistis billed as a departure from her previous works, and in terms of its protagonist, Alex, it is: She’s a female Jason Bourne, whose foolhardy persona starkly contrasts the critically passive Bella Swan. Stephenie Meyer, the author and movie producer of the tween vampire franchise Twilight, has written a book marketed as a thriller. ![]()
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