Scan barcode
selinamarcille's review against another edition
4.0
I love Meg Gardiner! She does a great job of keeping you on the edge of your seat and including lots of twists that you wouldn't see coming.
The characters in this are well developed and I loved the interesting characteristics presented in each of them. Aidan was a great hero, and I'm glad to see how he was presented.
The ending was satisfying. I'll read everything Meg Gardiner writes!
The characters in this are well developed and I loved the interesting characteristics presented in each of them. Aidan was a great hero, and I'm glad to see how he was presented.
The ending was satisfying. I'll read everything Meg Gardiner writes!
jeremyhornik's review against another edition
1.0
Back and forth from unmotivated unrealistic behavior to ridiculous coincidence, this one even spends its last third in the kind of deadly factory where Jackie Chan and Chuck Norris might team up to take on bad guys. Dopey. Love triangle at center didn't do it for me, either. Brief moments of sadism hardly with fighting through the rest of it.
wageser's review against another edition
3.0
This counts for my 2015 Challenge - a mystery or thriller, and a book by a female author.
parisabell's review against another edition
2.0
It just didn't suck me. Which is a shame because I love her two series. but these stand-alone novels she's been doing lately just aren't nearly as good.
yetanothersusan's review against another edition
4.0
A woman who thought she had escaped her past finds out she didn't and is instead in the middle of a horrific revenge plot. And just when you think she has survived, it gets worse.
I liked how the author introduced bits and pieces of the past as the current situation unwinds. Most enjoyable were the multiple layers of paranoia that several if the characters had to deal with as they learned to trust each other.
I liked how the author introduced bits and pieces of the past as the current situation unwinds. Most enjoyable were the multiple layers of paranoia that several if the characters had to deal with as they learned to trust each other.
kristindowner's review against another edition
5.0
This ARC was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
Such a great book. Read my review here: https://www.netgalley.com/reviewer/viewReview?book_id=43152 or at http://www.nerdprobs.com/feature/review-phantom-instinct-by-meg-gardiner/
Such a great book. Read my review here: https://www.netgalley.com/reviewer/viewReview?book_id=43152 or at http://www.nerdprobs.com/feature/review-phantom-instinct-by-meg-gardiner/
quinnster's review against another edition
2.0
This wasn't as enjoyable as the last book I read by Meg Gardiner. It seemed to jump into the story pretty fast and didn't give me much time to get to know the main characters before I was supposed to care what happened to them. I just could never really get into it.
lyla_lynn's review against another edition
1.0
I decided to pick this up because the concept was fascinating. Unfortunately, there was a lot of time spent making sure you knew how much the police didn't trust the characters and not enough time spent creating a full story. It felt like the B plot took over the A plot and I had a hard time finishing it
veronica87's review against another edition
3.0
I read and loved [b:UNSUB|32811580|UNSUB (UNSUB, #1)|Meg Gardiner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1477844218s/32811580.jpg|53411548] by this author when I read it earlier this year so I immediately went out in search of her other works. I settled on this one because it's a standalone and I was looking for something that didn't carry a potential series commitment with it. This was a good book but not great, not on the same level as Unsub, in my opinion And that's okay. This is an earlier work by the author and so it's reasonable for it to feel like one. The characters were interesting but some of the relationship dynamics were unnecessary and muddied when they didn't need to be. Pacing also felt like an issue to me. The race to save one of the characters lasted the entire final third of the book. It just went on too long and felt overly drawn out. And now we come to the ending...which left some loose ends. If this were a series that'd be okay, expected even but, it's not. It's a standalone, albeit one with an ending that lacks closure. I'll still be on the lookout for other works by this author and I'll most definitely be reading the second book in the Unsub series.