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Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea

6 reviews

ariana3's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The plot of this felt so basic, but it was an easy read and had some good twists at the end!

A famous TV journalist (who is actually the daughter of a huge NY embezzler) chases a story but uses it as a cover. She works with a semi-disgraced retired FBI agent (who of course was brought out of retirement to gain her trust and help get info on her felon father's whereabouts). Per usual, they sleep together and catch feelings. She's betrayed when she finds out he was supposedly using her for info, he insists that wasn't the intention (he didn't know he'd catch feelings). They come to an agreement and help get her dad caught together. The twists: her dead brother isn't actually dead and that's who she was helping evade the feds all along; the person who was supposedly dead for the story she was chasing isn't dead, and she was actually guilty of the murder she committed (and was almost convicted of) despite her planting her own evidence at the scene.

These twists at the end and the fact I couldn't put the book down (despite the basic plot) bumped this from 3/3.5 stars the 4.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abandonment, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Car accident, Sexual content, Misogyny, and Violence

Minor: Classism and Confinement

elizabeth_lepore's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Infertility and Abortion

emily_koopmann's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Violence, and Suicide

meganpbennett's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Twenty Years Later is a fascinating read, starting from the opening pages with the June 2001 murder and going all the way through to the epilogue. There are two stories that don't quite mesh happening throughout the story (the Montgomery story and the Victoria Story) and either one would have been perfect for the story. Together, though, they take away from each other.   

While I saw some of the twists coming very early on, I was both surprised and not surprised at all with the whodunit revealed at the end. Page-turning and engrossing, it was a fun thriller. 

Several character were in the North Tower when it was struck, so that could be very triggering. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Grief, Violence, Blood, Death, Gore, Infertility, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Abortion

hanniee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Death, Murder, Abortion, Blood, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Violence

taylorsimon's review

mysterious tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual violence, and Violence