Black Out

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  Comments ( -) Add to My Stories BLACK OUT BY LISA UNGER (Arrow £9.99) Annie Powers lives an enviable life in a wealthy Florida enclave with her doting husband Gray and daughter Victory. But almost nothing is as it seems. For a start, Annie Powers is ... (read full critics)

  dailymail published on Tue, 21 Sep 2010

• Book review: Lisa Unger's *Black Out*

  Black Out Lisa Unger Vintage Paperback 560 pages April 2009 Secrets and lies. In her latest mystery, Black Out , Unger hits a home run, an edge-of-your-seat nail-biter that consists of smoke and mirrors, each new twist building to a shocking denoueme ... (read full critics)

  curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  This was just a bit over the top, and gruesome and sad. Creepy characters which sometimes can add to a book were just not there for me.

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  Rameycreek said on Oct 29, 2009 | 1 feedback

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  Hmmmm? Never read Lisa Unger until now, but this novel definitely has a "Dean Koontz" flavor to it---the pervading nightmare quality that leaves the reader unsure what is real, what is imagined. Really, at the end of it, I was almost ready for some ptsd therapy. This poor girl Ophelia (oka Annie) ha ... (continue)

  Hmmmm? Never read Lisa Unger until now, but this novel definitely has a "Dean Koontz" flavor to it---the pervading nightmare quality that leaves the reader unsure what is real, what is imagined. Really, at the end of it, I was almost ready for some ptsd therapy. This poor girl Ophelia (oka Annie) had been through so much trauma I don't know how she could possibly function afterwards, much less go on to lead a normal life. However, I thought that Lisa Unger must certainly have been subject to some suffering herself to speak with such authority ("Most of us don't live in the present tense. We dwell in a mental place where our regrets and grudges from our past compete with our fears about the future. Sometimes we barely notice what's going on around us, we're so busy time traveling.") All in all, not a bad little bang-bang whodunit.

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  Marion the librarian said on Jul 21, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 368 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0307338487
• ISBN-13: 9780307338488
• Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
• Pub date: May 27, 2008
• Also available as: Others

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