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3.37 AVERAGE
3.37 AVERAGE
Getting through this book was a struggle. Way too slow for my liking. I am probably going to be the minority with my 3 star rating.
Read my full review at my blog www.booklovinalicia.blogspot.com
Read my full review at my blog www.booklovinalicia.blogspot.com
Probably going to be spoiler-filled in my progress with the book and my actual review!
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07/1/17:
Just started the book and I'm roughly three chapters in, seems promising but jumps around a lot...
08/1/17: So there's two different POV's?
Need to know what Catherine's secret is!
The scene with the train and Stephen was very Gone Girl-ish
Oh.
Why would you leave pictures like that around the house anyway and have them so easy to find?
This is picking up speed now.
So THAT's how the two POV's link!
09/1/17:
Ok so Stephen's dodgy
10/1/17:
Didn't see that coming!
WOW.
I understand why Stephen hates Catherine so much now
Well
That ending was something I DID NOT expect and it completely caught me off guard!
The book started off slow to begin with and introduced all of the characters and their personalities and eventually it dived into the main story.
It was a great original thriller and I'd reccomend it.
THAT TWIST IN THE ENDING!
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07/1/17:
Just started the book and I'm roughly three chapters in, seems promising but jumps around a lot...
08/1/17: So there's two different POV's?
Need to know what Catherine's secret is!
The scene with the train and Stephen was very Gone Girl-ish
Oh.
Why would you leave pictures like that around the house anyway and have them so easy to find?
This is picking up speed now.
So THAT's how the two POV's link!
09/1/17:
Ok so Stephen's dodgy
10/1/17:
Didn't see that coming!
WOW.
I understand why Stephen hates Catherine so much now
Well
That ending was something I DID NOT expect and it completely caught me off guard!
The book started off slow to begin with and introduced all of the characters and their personalities and eventually it dived into the main story.
It was a great original thriller and I'd reccomend it.
THAT TWIST IN THE ENDING!
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is a good holiday read, the story is easy to follow and I didn’t find it hard to put down.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
British scriptwriter Renee Knight’s cleverly crafted debut, DISCLAIMER is a twisted, dark and chilling psychological suspense which brings new meaning to “red herring” and “domestic suburban noir.” What an excellent cover depicting the true nature of the novel.
Let me start off by saying, this is one addictive book which grabs your attention! You will sit up and take notice. I listened to the audio version, with a number of distractions. (A lot of rewinding) Like what in the heck just happened? Did I miss something? The British narrators, Michael Pennington and Laura Paton deliver a suspenseful performance, setting the mysterious dark mood, perfectly.
Two families. Two sons. Stephen, Nancy & son, Jonathan. Robert, Katherine & son, Nick.
Let the sadistic evil games begin. Or should I say, cat and mouse? Truth or dare? Revenge. One life for another. How are these two families connected? Both families have dark secrets. Secrets from their spouses.
We meet Catherine, a documentary filmmaker. She finds herself at home, picking up a self-published book “The Perfect Stranger” in the evening. While reading she is shocked beyond belief, as she recognizes herself and this appears to be her story? A dark story she has buried for the last twenty years. No one could possibly know these things. Except the one person, who was there, and he is dead. A life-threatening secret, her husband knows nothing about. She is obsessed with finding out more.
Catherine is married to Robert, an attorney. Years ago they were on holiday and he had to leave, so she was left with her son. She sees a young man, a photographer. Over 20 years earlier in Spain, 19-year-old Jonathan drowns, while saving five year old, Nicholas.
Someone is out there; Tormenting her? These secrets have the power to unravel their lives.
Stephen is a creep. (An old crazy man), a former school teacher, a stalker, now widowed. Nancy and Stephen had a wacko marriage full of secrets. A plot. A predator. A plan.
Told in alternating chapters and voices, a slow burning tale which draws you into the web of deceit, when nothing is as it appears. From erotic to sadistic, predator to prey, Mind-blowing— your head will spin! Where is the truth? What is the truth?
DISCLAIMER is unique, intriguing, entertaining and unnerving. Chilling, terrifying, disturbing, haunting.
dis·claim·er A statement that is meant to prevent an “incorrect understanding” of something (such as a book, a movie, or an advertisement).
While this may not be the best psychological thriller of the year; however, very worthy of 4 stars for capturing my attention for hours, a chilling debut. It is definitely one you want to read. If you enjoyed Gone Girl and Girl on a Train, fans will relate to the female protagonist who presents a picture of perfect suburban life, while carrying a dark destructive secret.
The terrible price we pay when we try to hide the truth.
A deeply probing, intense psychological thriller. A book-within-a book. Can’t wait for book two (another psycho-thriller) and the upcoming film.
“The act of keeping the secret a secret has almost become bigger than the secret itself.” ― Renée Knight, Disclaimer
JDCMustReadBooks
Let me start off by saying, this is one addictive book which grabs your attention! You will sit up and take notice. I listened to the audio version, with a number of distractions. (A lot of rewinding) Like what in the heck just happened? Did I miss something? The British narrators, Michael Pennington and Laura Paton deliver a suspenseful performance, setting the mysterious dark mood, perfectly.
Two families. Two sons. Stephen, Nancy & son, Jonathan. Robert, Katherine & son, Nick.
Let the sadistic evil games begin. Or should I say, cat and mouse? Truth or dare? Revenge. One life for another. How are these two families connected? Both families have dark secrets. Secrets from their spouses.
We meet Catherine, a documentary filmmaker. She finds herself at home, picking up a self-published book “The Perfect Stranger” in the evening. While reading she is shocked beyond belief, as she recognizes herself and this appears to be her story? A dark story she has buried for the last twenty years. No one could possibly know these things. Except the one person, who was there, and he is dead. A life-threatening secret, her husband knows nothing about. She is obsessed with finding out more.
Catherine is married to Robert, an attorney. Years ago they were on holiday and he had to leave, so she was left with her son. She sees a young man, a photographer. Over 20 years earlier in Spain, 19-year-old Jonathan drowns, while saving five year old, Nicholas.
Someone is out there; Tormenting her? These secrets have the power to unravel their lives.
Stephen is a creep. (An old crazy man), a former school teacher, a stalker, now widowed. Nancy and Stephen had a wacko marriage full of secrets. A plot. A predator. A plan.
Told in alternating chapters and voices, a slow burning tale which draws you into the web of deceit, when nothing is as it appears. From erotic to sadistic, predator to prey, Mind-blowing— your head will spin! Where is the truth? What is the truth?
DISCLAIMER is unique, intriguing, entertaining and unnerving. Chilling, terrifying, disturbing, haunting.
dis·claim·er A statement that is meant to prevent an “incorrect understanding” of something (such as a book, a movie, or an advertisement).
While this may not be the best psychological thriller of the year; however, very worthy of 4 stars for capturing my attention for hours, a chilling debut. It is definitely one you want to read. If you enjoyed Gone Girl and Girl on a Train, fans will relate to the female protagonist who presents a picture of perfect suburban life, while carrying a dark destructive secret.
The terrible price we pay when we try to hide the truth.
A deeply probing, intense psychological thriller. A book-within-a book. Can’t wait for book two (another psycho-thriller) and the upcoming film.
“The act of keeping the secret a secret has almost become bigger than the secret itself.” ― Renée Knight, Disclaimer
JDCMustReadBooks
Catherine is a successful documentary filmmaker, happily married with a grown son. However she has a secret: a dark incident from when her son was a child that she has never told anyone. One day she picks up a book that's lying around the house and is horrified to discover that it is a fictionalised version of her story. At the beginning of the book, the disclaimer "any resemblance to persons alive or dead..." has been menacingly crossed out in red ink.
Who knows her secret? Who wrote the book? How did it get into her home?
From this terrific opening, the book develops gradually. Perhaps too gradually initially - for around the first third of the book it felt as if we were treading water as we rehashed the same territory over and over. But once the secrets start to be revealed, the pace picks up significantly. For a while I wondered if this was just a book about two unpleasant people, one desperate to wreak revenge on the other, but I'm pleased that the characters are more nuanced than that. The final reveals and the way that the book comes together are very satisfying.
A clever book and a great debut that will appeal to fans of [b:The Kind Worth Killing|21936809|The Kind Worth Killing|Peter Swanson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1417981750s/21936809.jpg|41240456] or [b:The Liar's Chair|23297551|The Liar's Chair|Rebecca Whitney|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1412432136s/23297551.jpg|42853995].
Who knows her secret? Who wrote the book? How did it get into her home?
From this terrific opening, the book develops gradually. Perhaps too gradually initially - for around the first third of the book it felt as if we were treading water as we rehashed the same territory over and over. But once the secrets start to be revealed, the pace picks up significantly. For a while I wondered if this was just a book about two unpleasant people, one desperate to wreak revenge on the other, but I'm pleased that the characters are more nuanced than that. The final reveals and the way that the book comes together are very satisfying.
A clever book and a great debut that will appeal to fans of [b:The Kind Worth Killing|21936809|The Kind Worth Killing|Peter Swanson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1417981750s/21936809.jpg|41240456] or [b:The Liar's Chair|23297551|The Liar's Chair|Rebecca Whitney|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1412432136s/23297551.jpg|42853995].
This is a novel in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. There’s an unreliable narrator and a story that twists and turns on itself as each new revelation sheds a different light on the story being told. The novel concerns Catherine, who upon reading a book that just showed up at her house, comes face to face with the events of some fifteen years ago, and sees herself clearly identified as the villain of the piece. It throws her into a tailspin, unable to sleep and uncertain of what to do next.
It’s a good enough set up for a decent beach novel, but it’s uneven in the execution. Too much of the book depended on information being withheld from the reader, although it’s known to the main characters. While this strategy kept me reading, it didn’t make me trust the storytelling. And just as I started to become bored enough with the initial pattern of the book, Knight stands the entire premise on its head and delivers an unexpected and unexpectedly powerful reveal, which is then marred by the reaction of the main characters. There’s one individual whose reaction to a version of the secret being revealed is so unlikely and over the top that I wondered at Catherine’s ever allowing them to become a part of her life. Taken as a whole, Disclaimer was a decent enough entertainment, but nothing more.
It’s a good enough set up for a decent beach novel, but it’s uneven in the execution. Too much of the book depended on information being withheld from the reader, although it’s known to the main characters. While this strategy kept me reading, it didn’t make me trust the storytelling. And just as I started to become bored enough with the initial pattern of the book, Knight stands the entire premise on its head and delivers an unexpected and unexpectedly powerful reveal, which is then marred by the reaction of the main characters. There’s one individual whose reaction to a version of the secret being revealed is so unlikely and over the top that I wondered at Catherine’s ever allowing them to become a part of her life. Taken as a whole, Disclaimer was a decent enough entertainment, but nothing more.