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Œuvres de Shirley Benton

Looking for Leon (2011) 9 exemplaires
Locked Out Of Heaven (2020) 3 exemplaires
Can We Start Again? (2012) 1 exemplaire

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Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
What would you do and how would you feel if you were given Rohypnol while out drinking, and wake up in a cabin tied up? Yet, when you wake up, your in a guest bedroom at your friend’s house, and she says, as does others, that they were with you all night and the kidnapping didn’t happen. This is Where is My Mind by Shirley Benton.

For the most part, I thought this book was really good. The characters were interesting, and there was good chemistry between them. The plot was clever, and kept me guessing, though I had the end figured out about 3/4’s of the way through. The writing was suspenseful, and it did keep me turning pages to find out what was going on. My only complaint about the book was that Katie, the main character, was a bit naive. An example is when they decided to hold an intervention for her. Just the way the conversations went and the actions of the other characters involved, should have been a dead giveaway as to what was going to happen. After several episodes like this, I was quite impatient with the character. That’s the difference between 4 stars and 5 stars.

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TamSesto | 11 autres critiques | Sep 3, 2021 |
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This book was just pages of nothing. The entire plot of this book exists in maybe 5-6 chapters. The rest is just the same story told over and over again. Being suspicious of all her friends. Going over the same one scene repeatedly. Almost all of this story could be cut out with no difference. Also ultimately the big reveal is just not that big at all - the motivation for the attack is really weak.
 
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mlipman | 11 autres critiques | Aug 1, 2020 |
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Disclaimer: I received this book for free from LibraryThing in return for an honest review.

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Katie Turners spends most of the day and night out with her friends drinking. That night Katie is convinced she was abducted and left to die in an abandoned houses only to somehow wake up in her friend's home without anyone knowing she ever left it. Her friend is convinced she just drank too much but after taking her to the hospital the doctors find Rohypnol in Katie's system. Now her friends and family are convinced that the Rohypnol making her hallucinate the "abduction". But Katie is convinced it actually happened and she is going to figure out what happened to her no matter the cost.

This book started out very interesting and it sucked me right in. However I found the plot to drag in parts. It seemed like the protagonist went over the same points over and over again. I also found most of the characters to be unlikable and slightly unrealistic. That being said I still could not put the book down because I had to know how the story ended. Was Katie actually abducted or was it all in her head?
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RebeccaLMello | 11 autres critiques | Jul 1, 2020 |
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If you like psychological thrillers where you don't know who is telling the truth (do we have an unreliable narrator on our hands?), this one may appeal to you. For the most part, I enjoyed the story and the building suspense. The plot is good, providing some red herrings that left me guessing up until about the 3/4 mark and then I sussed it all out. Even knowing the answer, I was still curious to see how events would play out. For the most part, the supporting characters are rather two-dimensional and their reactions to Katie's insistence that something happened run the usual gamete of disbelief, sympathy and frustration. Katie is an interesting character and yes, her past history makes it easy to question what she remembers from that alcohol-fueled night. I get that someone trying to discover the truth may go to extreme lengths to find the answer, especially if they feel that no one - not even the police - seems to care, but this leads Katie to teetering at times towards obsessive behaviour and some misguided decision-making. Parts of the story dragged for me, especially in the middle. The climatic ending is a little far-fetched, in my opinion, but it does deliver some page-turning suspense, which is really what I look for in a psycho-thriller. Overall, a decent quick reading suspense story, just a little slow in some places.… (plus d'informations)
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lkernagh | 11 autres critiques | Jun 13, 2020 |

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Œuvres
4
Membres
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3.2
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