I have sooooo many books! I have a ton of print books and probably even more e-books. The Book Spotlight Giveaway feature that I post every Saturday is a way for me to clear my shelves and to share some of the many books I have. There are a lot of different reasons that I might be letting some of my books go, the biggest one is that when we moved a little over 2 years ago I discovered how many books I really do have. This feature is a way for my to cull my collection and to give someone else the opportunity to enjoy them.
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The book I am featuring today is an ARC that I received from my daughter when she moved. I have not read any books by this author. Have you?
Good luck and be sure to stop back next week!
Heartbroken
Heartbroken by Lisa Unger
Print and ebook, 370 pages
Published June 26th 2012 by Crown
New York Daily News Top New Thriller Novel, Publishers Weekly Best New Books, and Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2012
A shattering new thriller about three women on a heart-wrenching collision course.
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.
Print and ebook, 370 pages
Published June 26th 2012 by Crown
New York Daily News Top New Thriller Novel, Publishers Weekly Best New Books, and Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2012
A shattering new thriller about three women on a heart-wrenching collision course.
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.
About the author
Her books are published in twenty-six languages worldwide, have sold millions of copies and have been named “Best of the Year” or top picks by the Today Show, Good Morning America, Entertainment Weekly, Amazon.com, Independent Booksellers, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and the Sun Sentinel to name a few.
Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR and Travel+Leisure Magazine. Lisa Unger lives in the Tampa Bay area of Florida with her husband, daughter and labradoodle.
I haven't read any of her books yet! I would love to because I've heard that they are very good. I'm a very big fan of suspense/thrillers! Thank you for the chance to win this one!
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ReplyDeleteI haven't read any of Lisa Unger's books yet, but Heartbroken sounds great ♡ I would enjoy reading this book. Thank you
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of Lisa Unger. However, the summary of this story sounds interesting. I know about dysfunctional families, and they do make for interesting reading!
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I haven't, but I just might start with this one! Sounds good!
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I have read many of Unger's books and enjoyed them all, especially Die for You, In the Blood, and Crazy Love You. Unger is a master of suspense, with fully fleshed-out characters and a firm command of story line, pacing, and time and place.
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I've never read any of her books before :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any of her books yet but this one looks good.
ReplyDeleteI have not read any of the books but it does sound like it would be a good read
ReplyDeleteI have never read any of her books either, but this copy of Heartbroken looks like i need to have it in my library!
ReplyDeleteI also have never read one of her books before, but this one sure sounds really good to me-
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