You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Hype still gets to me, I easily get caught up in the must-read-this-first excitement, but I no longer expect it to actually mean a truly great book.

The Hook - The blurb - ”What if you realized the terrifying book you were reading was all about you?

There have been lots of comparisons made to Gone Girl (and equally lots of people claiming that it's nothing like Gone Girl). If it was not for the excellent production and the voices of the two actors relating this story from Catherine's and Stephen's point of view, I would not have got to the end of this book. Disclaimer is a classic case in point - a much-talked-about debut suspense novel that sparked a bidding war and is already set to be translated into 20+ languages; you know the drill. Disclaimer was my first step into the entirely unventured-before world of fictitious psychlogical thrillers (for me). So I got pretty annoyed and DNFed it, but I decided to skim to the end to see if there wasn't something I was missing.

Unfortunately, it involves a rape scene - I really thought I was going to be able to make it through a crime/thriller novel without one, but yet again, no. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. After being "lulled into complacency" with a few chapters and the intriguing promise of a decent payoff to come, the more she reads she cannot avoid facing the shocking truth; that The Perfect Stranger by E. I'm not sure if that was because it reminded me of something specific, or because it reminded me generally of a type of book I used to read when I was younger.A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Disclaimer will no doubt be marketed as a psychological thriller, but it doesn't have a lot of the typical characteristics of that genre as it's now understood. Catherine finds that she is the main character in the book and that it reveals a secret that she thought only she could now know. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I had seen quite a few reviews comparing Disclaimer to Gone Girl and I have to say that I didn't really enjoy Gone Girl so, for me , Disclaimer was so much better. Cathrine discovers an intriguing novel on her bedside table but is soon horrified to learn that she is one of the key characters. Catherine Ravenscroft is a successful documentary filmmaker, happily married and seems to lead the most amazing life until one day she finds a book at her home, starts reading and realizes the book is about her. It threatens to expose a secret from her past, one she thought hidden for all time, the consequences which could topple her very existence.Blame is now turned entirely upside down and it is Jonathan, and his parents who deserve our disgust. Catherine, a successful film-maker, is intrigued when she mysteriously receives a book entitled The Perfect Stranger. At first it's not obvious how the two of them would be linked, but as Stephen's perspective advances — it began two years before Catherine's — the conections are made clear. I enjoyed the author’s use of Stephen’s voice to further the story, yet add creepiness to the storyline. is turning into another great year for books, most especially debuts and this one is definitely going to be somewhere near the top of the favourites list come the end of the year – I was totally absorbed into the story and loved the emotion of it as much as the mystery element.

A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people. However, I must say even though I loved the concept, the development of the characters and the story’s pace, I was just tiny bit disappointed with the ending.Este livro é narrado por uma mulher e por um homem e nas primeiras páginas parece que eles não tem nada em comum, o que me deixou um pouco desnorteada sem perceber absolutamente nada!