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Title: Neon in Daylight

Author: Hermione Hoby

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-18

Publisher: Blackstone Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

New York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has two unfortunate responsibilities during her time in America: to make regular Skype calls to her miserable boyfriend back home, and to cat-sit an indifferent feline named Joni Mitchell.

The city has other plans for her. In New York's parks and bodegas, its galleries and performance spaces, its bars and clubs crowded with bodies, Kate encounters two strangers who will transform her stay: Bill, a charismatic but embittered writer made famous by the movie version of his only novel; and Inez, his daughter, a recent high school graduate who supplements her Bushwick cafe salary by enacting the fantasies of men she meets on Craigslist. Unmoored from her old life, Kate becomes infatuated with both of them.

Set during a heatwave that feels like it will never break, Neon in Daylight marries deep intelligence with captivating characters to offer us a joyful, unflinching exploration of desire, solitude, and the thin line between life and art. An Indie Next List selection.

Members Reviews:

Almost Amazing

This story has a lot going for it. I don't want to spoil any plot points because going into it not knowing what I was getting into made me enjoy it more... Or at least I assume so. Hoby's writing is fantastic, and kept me reading even when the plot came close to becoming boring (which it seldom did). I really enjoyed the use of multiple perspectives, and the exploration of city life. There are some themes here that have been mishandled by other writers that are explored with maturity here, and I appreciate that. I would say the only real flaw with this book is that it just didn't wow me the way some other great stories have. I give it 4.5 stars out of 5.

Couldn't finish it...

Slow and hard to get into... Stopped reading with 100 pages to go. Seemed to be going nowhere. I feel like it has potential, great descriptives and writing... but just a bit all over the place. And failed to wow me...

Drew me in -- and kept me at arm's length

After turning the last page of Neon in Daylight, I realized I had developed a love/hate relationship with this book.

So letâs start with the âlove. Hermione Hoby can write and sheâs not afraid to take risks with her characters. Although she is not a native New Yorker, she channels the New York vibe and her style is edgy, witty in places, and often compulsively page-turning.

At the core of her novel is a triangle: young Kate, a London transplant, who is spending the summer in her motherâs friendâs apartment trying to figure out who she wants to be when she grows up. Quickly, she meets Inez, a spellbinding girl with an unusual hobby: answering Craigslist ads and fulfilling the fantasies of men who want to be humiliated. She also hooks up with a âone-hit wonderâ middle-aged author named Bill who is weighed down by his glory daysâand just happens to be Inezâs father.

For me, the biggest problem was that Kate is the main character, but next to the bigger-than-life Inez and Bill, Kate comes across as a cypher. I couldnât quite understand what either one of them saw in her.