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Bezig met laden... Verdronken hartdoor Lisa Unger
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) ObsidianBlue | Jul 1, 2020 |   ) rolnickj | Jan 22, 2019 |  ) bnbookgirl | Oct 6, 2016 | I definitely had a hard time putting the book down. no matter what I was doing. I had it propped up while cooking, sitting outside and doing household chores. That is a sign of a compelling novel. My only complaint was the ending. There was too much left hanging and I felt as if the author was either in a hurry or needed to tie up loose ends. Maybe there will be a sequel, but I felt let down after being so absorbed. It was an "oh. huh. ok." moment. I will definitely read more by Unger. (  )1  MamaCass13 | Jul 10, 2016 | Ik heb een exemplaar ontvangen van de uitgever, waarvoor dank! Ik had nog nooit een boek gelezen van Lisa Unger, maar was al tijden benieuwd nadat ik positieve verhalen gehoord had. Drie vrouwen, een mysterieus eiland. De ingrediënten voor wat een spannend verhaal beloofd te worden. Het verhaal vertrekt vanuit de drie standpunten van de verschillende vrouwen, waarbij de relaties tussen hen niet allemaal even duidelijk zijn (De moeder-dochter natuurlijk wel). Vanaf het begin bekruipt je het gevoel al dat er iets aan de hand is met het toch niet zo idyllische Heart Island. De echte spanning komt wat laat op gang, om daarna het verhaal in een stroomversnelling ( :D ) terecht te laten komen. Schrijfstijl leest makkelijk weg, maar is niet heel bijzonder of opmerkelijk. Het verhaal had voor mij toch wel wat eindjes, die naar mijn gevoel een beetje te makkelijk aan elkaar geknoopt werden. Maar al met al, vond ik het leuk om te lezen en kijk ik zeker nog eens uit naar een ander boek van Lisa Unger... ( ) Floratina | May 26, 2016 |
In the category of literary thriller, Unger qualifies as America’s answer to the U.K.’s Kate Atkinson. She writes finely calibrated plots in prose that is exact, and she knows how to press the tension button for all it’s worth. In Unger’s seventh novel, three women, all with episodes of betrayal in their pasts, are steered toward a confrontation on an island in a remote Adirondacks’ lake. Also in the mix are men with violence in mind. Death and some redemption follow.
A shattering thriller about three women, strangers, on a heart-wrenching collision course none of them could have seen coming. Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real generation-old love story that ended in tragedy. On the other side of town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. She's in a dead-end job and is involved with the wrong man; she can feel herself being drawn into darkness, with horrific consequences. With nowhere to go, she finds herself on the run. Without knowing each other, and with lives that couldn't be more different, Kate and Emily head to the same point on the map: Heart Island, an idyllic place in the middle of a lake in the Adirondacks, owned for generations by Birdie Burke's family. The harsh and unyielding Birdie is at one with this island, which has a terrifying history all its own. She, too, has consequences to face. Heartbroken is a tense, mesmerizing novel about the limits of dysfunctional families, of an island haunted by dark memories and restless ghosts, and of the all-too-real demons we must battle. Wonderfully suspenseful, exquisitely crafted, and written with raw, emotional power, this is Lisa Unger at her very best. Praise for Heartbroken "Stellar. . . . Heartbroken should be on everyone's summer to-read list. For best results, read it alone on an island on a dark and stormy night."--USA Today (4 stars) "Heartbroken has all the makings of a high-wire thriller. But it's the twisted psyches of its main characters that really unsettle. . . . Unger expertly shows how quiet betrayals can rupture a life as deeply as an act of violence."--People (3 ½ stars) "A can't-put-down thriller interlaced with insightful family drama and echoes of Wuthering Heights."--Family Circle "Lisa Unger is one of the few women to first break into the genre of thrillers, then to dominate it."--Minneapolis Star Tribune "Lisa Unger masterfully writes of the joys and frustrations of family life in her latest novel. . . . What makes [it] shine is the struggle of multidimensional characters with issues that all of us face but sometimes don't want to acknowledge."--Associated Press Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.46)
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