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Dom dla lalek by Lisa Gardner, Daria KuczyƄska-Szymala

laurieaubrey's review against another edition

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5.0

Nicole Frank has a car accident - she claims she needs to find Vero, a missing child. A search dog is brought in; there was only one occupant of the vehicle - Nicole. Detective Wyatt Foster discovers Nicole has no child but does have a brain injury - she's had two major falls at home and the car was tampered with. Is Nicole's husband attempting to murder her? Is Nicole delusional or is she being manipulated? And is Vero real or a delusion?

Gardner wins again with Crash & Burn. Good character development - the reader can easily share Nicole's confusion with her life as memories, are they real or imagined, are revealed. Is Nicole's husband her protector or her tormentor? Secrets disclosed, twists and turns. Enjoyable read with satisfying ending.

muzette's review against another edition

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3.0

Third book in this series, had a lot of twists and turns, kept me interested.

mestes5's review against another edition

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4.0

Liked this one. It felt like a goodbye to Tessa and I hope that is not the case. I like her. Interesting twists with the brain injury component. Kept me hooked until the end.

mommahunt47's review against another edition

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4.0

I read every single book Gardner writes & she is terrifyingly wonderful. Seriously, she is one messed up chick to come up with this stuff!!!! True to her form, she keeps you guessing the entire time. This book will definitely get you thinking about the sex crimes in America.

I only give 4 stars because I got tired of "Vero wants to fly". I was seriously wanting to kill Vero myself by the end of this book. The last 4 chapters were painfully hard to get through because I was just over it all. However, overall it was a good book.

liviharmon's review against another edition

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3.0

SO GOOD. Twists and turns. Twwiiiisstsss and tuuurnnss.

cait_s's review against another edition

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3.0

I received a free copy of this book from Penguin First to Read in exchange for an honest review.

This is a story about lies and secrets, with lots of twists and turns. It's very dark, as well. Nicole "Nicky" Frank doesn't remember much. She was in a terrible car accident, and all she remembers is her daughter Vero is missing. Maybe hurt. But the man who claims to be her husband, who she feels a mix of hate and love toward even if she can't remember his name, says she has no children.

But Vero seems like the only thing that's real.

Nicky has suffered multiple head injuries--her brain hasn't recovered, so her memories are unreliable. But the more the police investigate her story, the more mysteries emerge. Vero, it turns out, isn't only a figment of her imagination. And the story of that little girl is woven around Nicky's hidden past, a story that is complex and a bit horrifying.

Not a light read, but an interesting one, so long as you're willing to allow for some stretches of coincidence. The world can be a terrible place, and people do terrible things to each other--often with tangled emotions and motives. Someone can mean well, yet do so much damage. Nicky is a wounded narrator, unreliable, circling back to what she doesn't remember, and her relationship with her husband is disturbingly dysfunctional. But the puzzle of the plot is well constructed, sweeping the story along as it's slowly unraveled.

Though part of a series, the book can be read by itself. However, character development in the investigators is better understood by reading them in order. A good read for fans of thrillers and complex detective investigations.

smithapichrikat's review against another edition

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4.0

Nicky Frank crawls out of a car wreckage mumbling about saving 'Vero'. The police find her badly injured and reeking of alcohol. It is a miracle that she even survived, leave alone manage to climb up a ravine which people in perfect condition, in search of this little girl Vero.

Things start getting complicated when Nicky's husband refuses knowledge of any person called Vero. They've never had a child. It doesn't help matters that there are no signs of a child having been in the car. Even the sniffer dog isn't able to identify anybody else.

The mystery deepens when Sergeant Wyatt Foster investigates and uncovers some disturbing facts about Nicky Frank.

A very interesting book, catches your attention from word go, and doesn't let go until the end. This is my first Lisa Gardener, and it was a great book to start with. The author does a great job at addressing a very disturbing topic with this book. It gave me the chills when the true story unfolded. A book that I enjoyed despite not liking or even empathizing with characters until towards the end. A book I'd recommend if you like this genre of books.

kalisbookclub's review against another edition

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4.0

This was a great read, twist after twist. I was rooting for Thomas the whole time

greenmtgirl's review against another edition

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5.0

The best book of Gardner's that I've read so far. Her writing style and/or editing improved a lot in this book, and her depiction of the psychological effects of childhood trauma and its effect on memory is devastatingly true-to-life.

audreydemers's review against another edition

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3.0

I have mixed feelings about this one. The first third was quite boring and it was just going in circles. Then it picked up a bit, but Wyatt was being amazingly dumb and obtuse. Then once Niki started talking to them, I got more interested, and by the end I was into it. Overall, I liked the FMC flashbacks, hut the police work was shitty and the book too slow.