I was both angry and mystified that the protagonist did not make events clear earlier in her life, or at least earlier in the later events that were blowing up her life. This story shows how the main character, Catherine, has a past that comes back to haunt her and destroy the life that she knows. 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. Soon to be a major Apple TV series featuring Sacha Baron Cohen and Cate Blanchett, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.

It took some time before I felt interested enough in the story to actually *want* to read it rather than feel obliged to because I needed to do a NetGalley review. Should she take the ending as a warning, all of these thoughts push real life to the periphery as she valiantly tries to keep the secret under wraps. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs.

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. Catherine, wife of Robert, and at times reluctant mother of Nick, carries a crippling secret from her past. A few parts dragged, and I found myself getting restless again, but then it picked back up, and during the last quarter of the book I couldn't put it down. Cathrine discovers an intriguing novel on her bedside table but is soon horrified to learn that she is one of the key characters.

The book follows two stories, which though at the beginning seem they are not connected, they are in fact, very strongly. Renee Knight's stunning debut is a thriller with a particularly literary flavour, but also with a heart. Whilst clearing out his wife’s belongings he comes across a novel she has written about the circumstances surrounding their son’s death at the age of nineteen. 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.As it starts, we meet a documentary filmmaker named Catherine Ravenscroft who is in the midst of being violently sick. There have been lots of comparisons made to Gone Girl (and equally lots of people claiming that it's nothing like Gone Girl). The convergence of the two families is skillfully intertwined and it is amazing to read the twists and turns of the plot. A autora soube equilibrar bem o mistério mas chega a uma certa parte em que já não dá para aguentar mais a curiosidade, queremos saber mesmo se tudo o que aconteceu é apenas imaginação de alguém extremamente vil ou uma pura coincidência de factos e acasos. Quando a historia começa a se desenrolar e começamos a perceber aquilo que ambos escondem é impossível parar de ler!

The usual disclaimer contained in works of fiction “…any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental” has been crossed out. I've said over and over again that most of the hyped and praised and 'hotly anticipated' books I've read this year have been thoroughly mediocre, and yet only recently has it occurred to me that of course they are: it's mediocre books that sell the most. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. After the dude dies (deciding for some mysterious reason to help the son of the woman he violently raped the night before) the police hand his parents his belongings, and in his camera his mom finds out the sexy pics he'd taken of Catherine, wrongly assuming they had an affair and he died trying to impress her.

Nothing in her background suggests that she could leap into the overcrowded field of crime writing and emerge at the top of the heap. These standard openers have been done to death, so to speak, to the point where you’d be crazy to read a mystery or thriller that uses one.

Disclaimer plunges us into our worst nightmare -- somebody knows our darkest secret, and they're sharing it . A tale of two halves as we follow along with Catherine, who mysteriously finds a book by her bedside, a seemingly fictional tale but one that hits very close to home. There can be no doubt that Renee Knight's original premise and the slow burning revelations will keep readers keen to know just what is around the next corner and there are plenty of surprises. But there is a twist, and that was something I hadn't expected (on the whole, this isn't really a twisty book, at least not in that manufactured multiple-cliffhanger way). It is a cheap and lazy gimmick and the author does nothing to salvage it and can't, in a book where the characterization is so paper thin.This is where it begins and we are off on a rollercoaster of a ride as Catherine’s world falls apart.