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Beyond the Headlines (Clare Carlson #4)

R.G. Belsky

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She was a mega-celebrity—he was a billionaire businessman—now he’s dead—she’s in jail ...

Mystery Suspense Thriller

Dream Town

Lee Goldberg

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A gated dream town for the megarich becomes a murderous nightmare in a riveting Eve Ronin thriller...

Erika Kehlet (21 KP) rated Try Not to Breathe in Books

Feb 19, 2018

Try Not to Breathe

Holly Seddon | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

7.5

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Try Not to Breathe is a terrific thriller from a first time novelist, and I'm already looking forward to her next book. Touted as being "for fans of Paula Hawkins", I was expecting another unreliable narrator thriller, but this story is different. As it says in the description, it is told from both Amy and Alex's points of view, but also from Amy's childhood boyfriend's point of view. Two of the narrators are not unreliable. Alex and Jake / Jacob just don't have all of the answers yet, and we learn any new information right along with them. Amy is another story. In her dream-like state, sometimes she remembers things, and sometimes not. When she does have useful information she is unable to communicate it to anyone.

This book is a great mystery, but it is also a heartbreaking story of a girl left to live inside her own mind after a terrible attack left her in a near vegetative state, and the effect that her attack has on her family and those who love her. However much liberty the author may have taken in creating Amy's world, she did a great job of bringing life to a character who was seen as already dead by so many.

I would recommend this one to all mystery / thriller fans. Whether you are a fan of the unreliable narrator trope or not, this is an enjoyable read.

NOTE: I received a free copy from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

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American Psycho: Picador Classic

Irvine Welsh and Bret Easton Ellis

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With an introduction by Irvine Welsh A cult classic, adapted into an award-winning film starring...

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Curious Minds

Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton

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A New York Times bestseller CURIOUS MINDS by No. 1 bestselling author Janet Evanovich and...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Inception (2010) in Movies

Aug 17, 2020

Inception (2010)

2010 | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

8.4

(131 Ratings)

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It's possible that Inception isn't the best film of the 21st century so far, but I'm blowed if I can think of a better candidate. What starts off looking like a slick thriller with SF trimmings - expert psycho-thief takes on one last job, breaking into a businessman's subconscious mind to implant a suggestion - turns into a dizzyingly complex and astonishingly self-assured examination of memory, reality, and the medium itself, with the execution matching the strength and ambition of the concept.

Consider: the film is based around a whole series of concepts and rules created out of whole cloth, which have to be explained to the audience. Most movies would really struggle to do only this. But Christopher Nolan not only succeeds, he uses it simply as the basis for a story rich in other layers of metaphor and emotion, while also playing with the rules of cinematic grammar and genre - the dreamscapes are implicitly likened to film narratives, with the successive levels resembling increasingly outlandish thriller sub-genres (gritty urban action, Mission Impossible, Bond) the further removed from the real world they are. But what is cinema if not a chance for people to share a dream together? Dreams as good as this one are vanishingly rare, alas.