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judithdcollins's review against another edition
5.0
Daniel Palmer’s DELIRIOUS delivers an intense non-stop suspense debut with corporate espionage on steroids, for a bang up psychological thriller.
Eddie Prescott was world-class software engineer whose life spiraled out of control, a partner of Charlie Giles, who took a wrong turn and ended his life from a bridge.
Charlie Giles sold his successful start-up company to a Boston electronics firm, where he now serves as senior director. As a top software engineer at SoluCent, developing cutting edge InVision, a high profile sophisticated car entertainment system. He is successful, intelligent, and lives to work money and a future.
This all changes when a woman, Anne, a SoluCent marketing employee, tips Giles off that one of his superiors, Jerry Schmidt, will argue against a deal with GM to make InVision standard. When Giles crashes an executive team meeting and confronts Schmidt. Giles cannot prove Anne, works for SoluCent or even exists, and his betrayal leaking secrets to competitor, leads to his firing and is escorted out of the building.
He is astounded and has to prove he was set up. However, as things start stacking up against him, he fears he is falling victim to his family history of schizophrenia after finding a note in his own handwriting listing names of SoluCent executives marked for death. Someone is manipulating him as he is surrounded with deceit, lies, and betrayal, as he turns paranoid, slowly second guessing reality, fiction, or illusion.
Delirious in an acutely disturbed state of mind resulting from illness or intoxication and characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech. This accurately describes Charlie’s state of mind when no one will believe him, and all the evidence is pointing at him as a cold-blooded killer.
In the meantime,readers learn about Joe, his brother (a blogger-loved this) which gave the techno thriller and even more human interest side with family dynamics between the two brothers, and an inside look into mental health issues and caretakers. As Charlie fears of losing his mind intensify and his brother comes to his defense, he has a better understanding of the real brother behind the illness, he has overlooked. (loved Joe's character)!
I have read Palmer’s newer books and making my way backward to read his previous books. Highly recommend Desperate! I actually liked Delirious better than Helpless and Stolen, as Palmer is brilliant as a lover of techno, and psychological thrillers, especially with the wrongly accused desperately proving their innocence.
Best of all love, love Peter Berkrot, (swoon) as he wows the intensity for an outstanding audio performance! (Missed him in Helpless). Hard to believe this is a debut; love the wicked twists of revenge!
Check out his latest upcoming May, 2015 suspense thriller, CONSTANT FEAR
Eddie Prescott was world-class software engineer whose life spiraled out of control, a partner of Charlie Giles, who took a wrong turn and ended his life from a bridge.
Charlie Giles sold his successful start-up company to a Boston electronics firm, where he now serves as senior director. As a top software engineer at SoluCent, developing cutting edge InVision, a high profile sophisticated car entertainment system. He is successful, intelligent, and lives to work money and a future.
This all changes when a woman, Anne, a SoluCent marketing employee, tips Giles off that one of his superiors, Jerry Schmidt, will argue against a deal with GM to make InVision standard. When Giles crashes an executive team meeting and confronts Schmidt. Giles cannot prove Anne, works for SoluCent or even exists, and his betrayal leaking secrets to competitor, leads to his firing and is escorted out of the building.
He is astounded and has to prove he was set up. However, as things start stacking up against him, he fears he is falling victim to his family history of schizophrenia after finding a note in his own handwriting listing names of SoluCent executives marked for death. Someone is manipulating him as he is surrounded with deceit, lies, and betrayal, as he turns paranoid, slowly second guessing reality, fiction, or illusion.
Delirious in an acutely disturbed state of mind resulting from illness or intoxication and characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech. This accurately describes Charlie’s state of mind when no one will believe him, and all the evidence is pointing at him as a cold-blooded killer.
In the meantime,readers learn about Joe, his brother (a blogger-loved this) which gave the techno thriller and even more human interest side with family dynamics between the two brothers, and an inside look into mental health issues and caretakers. As Charlie fears of losing his mind intensify and his brother comes to his defense, he has a better understanding of the real brother behind the illness, he has overlooked. (loved Joe's character)!
I have read Palmer’s newer books and making my way backward to read his previous books. Highly recommend Desperate! I actually liked Delirious better than Helpless and Stolen, as Palmer is brilliant as a lover of techno, and psychological thrillers, especially with the wrongly accused desperately proving their innocence.
Best of all love, love Peter Berkrot, (swoon) as he wows the intensity for an outstanding audio performance! (Missed him in Helpless). Hard to believe this is a debut; love the wicked twists of revenge!
Check out his latest upcoming May, 2015 suspense thriller, CONSTANT FEAR
ariiiiready2read916's review against another edition
4.0
This book started off very slow to me, it was hard to get into, the main character was a total asshole in the beginning but it became action packed about halfway through. There were a lot of things in here that didn’t make sense and we’re a little bit “ Way out of left field” but everything wrapped itself up in the end.
Solid writing. Solid book.
I like the short chapters and although it was only told from one perspective which is not a favor to mind, the writing was eloquent and interesting enough to keep me entertained.
Solid writing. Solid book.
I like the short chapters and although it was only told from one perspective which is not a favor to mind, the writing was eloquent and interesting enough to keep me entertained.
ananya98's review against another edition
3.0
The book starts of as a psychological thriller. But then it turns out to be just a thriller which was disguised to make you believe that it had everything to do about psychology of the mind, Predominantly schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder.
It stats of really interesting and the climax could be predicted when you reach half of the book. It’s a one time read and doesn’t actually leave you thinking about it and marveling the story line once you finish it.
It stats of really interesting and the climax could be predicted when you reach half of the book. It’s a one time read and doesn’t actually leave you thinking about it and marveling the story line once you finish it.
tinabaich's review against another edition
3.0
Delirious, Daniel Palmer’s debut novel, is the story of Charlie Giles, an executive at software corporation SoluCent. Charlie’s seemingly perfect life quickly begins to unravel, and he begins to question his own sanity. Charlie’s family history doesn’t help. His father and brother are both schizophrenic. As things spiral further and further out of control, Charlie must figure out if he really is losing his mind or if someone is trying to set him up.
I was excited to read Delirious after a recent Twitter conversation with a fellow book blogger. She had just finished reading it on an airplane and said she was so surprised by the ending that she accidentally uttered a few expletives in this very public place. I agree with her to an extent. I knew what the answer was, but was surprised by how Palmer got there. Aside from that, I enjoyed the story and the characters. Charlie’s brother, Joe, and Joe’s therapist, Rachel, play major roles in helping Charlie determine what is happening to him. They were strong, likable characters. Even Charlie, who starts out as a bit of jerk, becomes a likable character. I found myself rooting for him.
All in all, I think Delirious is an excellent debut thriller. I’m looking forward to seeing what Daniel Palmer comes up with next. If you like psychological thrillers, I think you’ll like Delirious.
http://iubookgirl.blogspot.com/2011/02/review-giveaway-delirious.html
I was excited to read Delirious after a recent Twitter conversation with a fellow book blogger. She had just finished reading it on an airplane and said she was so surprised by the ending that she accidentally uttered a few expletives in this very public place. I agree with her to an extent. I knew what the answer was, but was surprised by how Palmer got there. Aside from that, I enjoyed the story and the characters. Charlie’s brother, Joe, and Joe’s therapist, Rachel, play major roles in helping Charlie determine what is happening to him. They were strong, likable characters. Even Charlie, who starts out as a bit of jerk, becomes a likable character. I found myself rooting for him.
All in all, I think Delirious is an excellent debut thriller. I’m looking forward to seeing what Daniel Palmer comes up with next. If you like psychological thrillers, I think you’ll like Delirious.
http://iubookgirl.blogspot.com/2011/02/review-giveaway-delirious.html
t720psu's review against another edition
2.0
I can't believe I actually finished this book. The writing is tedious and the characters were all so clique. The portrayal of mental illness was also pretty horrible. Not related to my rating, but the EPub download had a glitch that added two spaces after every apostrophe which was very distracting on the page.
caitlinxmartin's review against another edition
4.0
What if you knew there was a roughly 50/50 chance you'd get a life-threatening mental illness that would destroy everything you'd achieved in your life? How would you cope with that?
Charlie Giles is your basic self-centered techno yuppie - the marketing end of a duo whose technical half created InVision and took the company to a multi-billion dollar acquisition. So a few people got hurt along the way - the ends justify the means, right? For anyone who labored in the vineyards of the dot com boom and bust Charlie and his milieu will be quite familiar. What makes Delirious fun and different is that he's plopped right smack down in the middle of an intelligent debut techno-thriller.
Charlie Giles may have found success, fortune, and power, but he's running from some family secrets - one of which could lose him everything he has. His brother's schizophrenia has had life-altering effects on Charlie's life and that of his family. The sure knowledge that having a sibling with schizophrenia makes it significantly more likely that you will have schizophrenia hangs over Charlie's life like an axe. It's just one of the secrets that make him vulnerable and it's fun to watch Mr. Palmer take his life apart in this great debut thriller. A smart, entertaining read with some interesting twists and turns along the way.
Charlie Giles is your basic self-centered techno yuppie - the marketing end of a duo whose technical half created InVision and took the company to a multi-billion dollar acquisition. So a few people got hurt along the way - the ends justify the means, right? For anyone who labored in the vineyards of the dot com boom and bust Charlie and his milieu will be quite familiar. What makes Delirious fun and different is that he's plopped right smack down in the middle of an intelligent debut techno-thriller.
Charlie Giles may have found success, fortune, and power, but he's running from some family secrets - one of which could lose him everything he has. His brother's schizophrenia has had life-altering effects on Charlie's life and that of his family. The sure knowledge that having a sibling with schizophrenia makes it significantly more likely that you will have schizophrenia hangs over Charlie's life like an axe. It's just one of the secrets that make him vulnerable and it's fun to watch Mr. Palmer take his life apart in this great debut thriller. A smart, entertaining read with some interesting twists and turns along the way.
atuladhar's review against another edition
4.0
This book started off very slow to me, it was hard to get into, the main character was a total asshole in the beginning but it became action packed about halfway through. There were a lot of things in here that didn’t make sense and we’re a little bit “ Way out of left field” but everything wrapped itself up in the end.
Solid writing. Solid book.
I like the short chapters and although it was only told from one perspective which is not a favor to mind, the writing was eloquent and interesting enough to keep me entertained.
Solid writing. Solid book.
I like the short chapters and although it was only told from one perspective which is not a favor to mind, the writing was eloquent and interesting enough to keep me entertained.
mrstuladhar's review against another edition
4.0
This book started off very slow to me, it was hard to get into, the main character was a total asshole in the beginning but it became action packed about halfway through. There were a lot of things in here that didn’t make sense and we’re a little bit “ Way out of left field” but everything wrapped itself up in the end.
Solid writing. Solid book.
I like the short chapters and although it was only told from one perspective which is not a favor to mind, the writing was eloquent and interesting enough to keep me entertained.
Solid writing. Solid book.
I like the short chapters and although it was only told from one perspective which is not a favor to mind, the writing was eloquent and interesting enough to keep me entertained.