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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
Oh wow, what a page turner ! As usual with Lisa Gardner, there are twists, turns, times when you're certain you know what's happening only to have something crash your suppositions in the next page.
This book keeps you guessing, fidgeting ; layers are revealed, you sit on the edge of your seat wondering what's happening next and probably keeping your mouth open for the next discovery.
What on Earth took me so long to read this author ?! This book is fantastic, dark, gritty, dreadful and wonderful, read it !
This book keeps you guessing, fidgeting ; layers are revealed, you sit on the edge of your seat wondering what's happening next and probably keeping your mouth open for the next discovery.
What on Earth took me so long to read this author ?! This book is fantastic, dark, gritty, dreadful and wonderful, read it !
When Nicky Frank wakes up from a brutal car accident, her memories are gone. She doesn't remember who she is or how she got here - only that she must find Vero. Police arrive on the scene and the search begins, but the experts can find no trace of a little girl at the scene of the accident. Did Vero ever really exist?
Crash & Burn kept me guessing for a lot longer than most other thrillers I've read recently. There was a point about a fifth of the way in where I was worried I'd figured it all out and was in for a long slog through to disappointment, so I was pleased the twists and turns kept intensifying as the story moved along.
I wasn't aware that this was the third in a series, and while the story definitely stands alone, I found the references to previous book intrusive and irritating. From what I infer, there are several recurring characters from various Gardner series at play here, and she only ever gives vague details about their backstories, which makes the scenes that are unconnected to this particular case a bit of a bore to slog through. Fortunately, they're few and far between, but they did little to pique my interest in going back and reading the others.
On its own merits, Crash and Burn is a solid, if unspectacular, thriller. I looked forward to picking it back up again, and was largely satisfied with the ending. Not all of the devices Gardner used worked for me (having Nicky hallucinate long conversations with Vero in various states of decay was a little bizarre), but she crafted a complex plot that ultimately wove together well.
[Disclaimer: I received a review copy via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.]
Crash & Burn kept me guessing for a lot longer than most other thrillers I've read recently. There was a point about a fifth of the way in where I was worried I'd figured it all out and was in for a long slog through to disappointment, so I was pleased the twists and turns kept intensifying as the story moved along.
I wasn't aware that this was the third in a series, and while the story definitely stands alone, I found the references to previous book intrusive and irritating. From what I infer, there are several recurring characters from various Gardner series at play here, and she only ever gives vague details about their backstories, which makes the scenes that are unconnected to this particular case a bit of a bore to slog through. Fortunately, they're few and far between, but they did little to pique my interest in going back and reading the others.
On its own merits, Crash and Burn is a solid, if unspectacular, thriller. I looked forward to picking it back up again, and was largely satisfied with the ending. Not all of the devices Gardner used worked for me (having Nicky hallucinate long conversations with Vero in various states of decay was a little bizarre), but she crafted a complex plot that ultimately wove together well.
[Disclaimer: I received a review copy via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.]
Not my favorite Lisa Gardner book. Started well, but failed to live up to expectations. Some good plot twists along the way didn't manage to make up implausible charactor behavior. Might have been a 4* listen, but the narrators voice was somewhat grating.
Lisa Gardner’s new psychological novel Crash & Burn is the kind of book that Alfred Hitchcock might have jumped all over during his moviemaking heyday. This one is filled with so many plot twists and surprises that the reader is kept off balance all the way to the book’s final pages. And, Nicky Frank, Gardner’s main character who is also one of the book’s narrators, takes the “unreliable narrator” device to the extreme, something Hitchcock would have loved.
When Nicky Frank regains consciousness and realizes that she has run off a remote New Hampshire highway and is trapped in her car, she has only one concern: her daughter. Where is Vero? She’s not in the car, and even the search dog brought to the scene of the accident can’t find the little girl. Now it is up to Sergeant Wyatt Foster to find her before it is too late. But, as Sgt. Foster is soon to learn, all is not as it seems, because according to Nicky’s husband, there is no little girl. She does not exist.
According to Thomas Frank, his wife has suffered three concussions in the past six months, leading to the kind of head trauma in which she still sometimes has difficulty telling the difference between reality and dreams. Being the good cop that he is, when he hears “three concussions in six months,” Wyatt Foster immediately begins to suspect that Thomas Frank just might be the villain of the piece. Is the man, in fact, trying to kill his wife?
Thus begins a rollercoaster ride during which Nicky desperately tries to tell the difference between what is real and what is not. Is Thomas the husband who pledged to protect his wife with his own life if need be, or is he the husband she sometimes believes she has reason to fear and mistrust? Who is Vero and why can’t Nicky get her out of her head? Without help from someone she can trust, Nicky may never find the answers to any of the questions being thrown at her by Wyatt Foster and the New Hampshire North Country Sheriff’s Criminal Investigations Division. Wyatt, still not sure if he is dealing with a criminal or a victim in the person of Nicky Frank, is determined to get to the truth – and he may just turn out to be one of the few friends Nicky has.
Crash & Burn is both psychological thriller and police procedural, and it will add to the positive reputation that Lisa Gardner has already earned with her eight-book Detective D.D. Warren series and her FBI Profiler and Tessa Leoni series. In Crash & Burn, as she sometimes does, Gardner mixes the characters from the different series into her story. This time around, P.I. Tessa Leoni works closely with Wyatt Foster to solve the Nicky Frank case, and D.D. Warren even manages a cameo appearance of her own. Lisa Gardner fans will be pleased.
When Nicky Frank regains consciousness and realizes that she has run off a remote New Hampshire highway and is trapped in her car, she has only one concern: her daughter. Where is Vero? She’s not in the car, and even the search dog brought to the scene of the accident can’t find the little girl. Now it is up to Sergeant Wyatt Foster to find her before it is too late. But, as Sgt. Foster is soon to learn, all is not as it seems, because according to Nicky’s husband, there is no little girl. She does not exist.
According to Thomas Frank, his wife has suffered three concussions in the past six months, leading to the kind of head trauma in which she still sometimes has difficulty telling the difference between reality and dreams. Being the good cop that he is, when he hears “three concussions in six months,” Wyatt Foster immediately begins to suspect that Thomas Frank just might be the villain of the piece. Is the man, in fact, trying to kill his wife?
Thus begins a rollercoaster ride during which Nicky desperately tries to tell the difference between what is real and what is not. Is Thomas the husband who pledged to protect his wife with his own life if need be, or is he the husband she sometimes believes she has reason to fear and mistrust? Who is Vero and why can’t Nicky get her out of her head? Without help from someone she can trust, Nicky may never find the answers to any of the questions being thrown at her by Wyatt Foster and the New Hampshire North Country Sheriff’s Criminal Investigations Division. Wyatt, still not sure if he is dealing with a criminal or a victim in the person of Nicky Frank, is determined to get to the truth – and he may just turn out to be one of the few friends Nicky has.
Crash & Burn is both psychological thriller and police procedural, and it will add to the positive reputation that Lisa Gardner has already earned with her eight-book Detective D.D. Warren series and her FBI Profiler and Tessa Leoni series. In Crash & Burn, as she sometimes does, Gardner mixes the characters from the different series into her story. This time around, P.I. Tessa Leoni works closely with Wyatt Foster to solve the Nicky Frank case, and D.D. Warren even manages a cameo appearance of her own. Lisa Gardner fans will be pleased.