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Dan Lawton

Autor(a) de Amber Alert

9 Works 127 Membros 47 Críticas

Séries

Obras por Dan Lawton

Amber Alert (2016) 24 exemplares
Deception (2015) 23 exemplares
Operation Salazar (2016) 21 exemplares
Plum Springs (2018) 20 exemplares
The Green House (2020) 16 exemplares
That Was Before (2021) 15 exemplares
Now Was After (2022) 5 exemplares
Here It Ends (2023) 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
New Hampshire, USA
Organizações
International Thriller Writers
Prémios e menções honrosas
Plum Springs: Winner of the 2019 New Hampshire Writers' Project Readers' Choice Awards for Fiction
Deception: A Novel Writing Festival 2017 Thriller Novel of the Year

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Dan Lawton is an award-winning literary suspense, mystery, and thriller author from New Hampshire. He is an active member of the International Thriller Writers (ITW) Organization.

Dan's fourth novel, Plum Springs, won the 2019 New Hampshire Writers' Project Readers' Choice Award for Fiction. His first novel, Deception, was named one of the best thriller novels of 2017 by the Novel Writing Festival.

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Críticas

This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
(*I received this book in exchange for an honest review through LibraryThing's Early Reader Giveaway program.)

I received this book in audio book format from Audible, so I'll also comment on the narration.

Overall I found the book well-rounded from start to finish. There wasn't a lot of extra fluff that took away from the narrative or felt like the author was writing just to fill a page requirement. He did a great job about slowly revealing the mystery and how everyone was connected and what secrets the main characters had hidden.

I felt that Dan wrapped up the book in a fitting way. I was satisfied by the ending, which I always appreciate. I hate when books end poorly, on a weird note, or like it's not a finished book. Dan delivered on the ending, which I definitely appreciate. Everything was wrapped up and the questions that he had you thinking about during the read were answered.

I'm overly picky when it comes to audio books and prefer when they're narrated by a team of people as that changes the voices and keeps it interesting. I'm someone that's just attuned to different voices and am admittedly voice picky. There are some people I just can't stand listening to. So, I'm always apprehensive with a book on tape. However, the narrator of the audio book version did a great job. His voice was well paced and he did give each character a distinctive voice.

If you prefer audio books, I do have to say that this one is a good one to listen to. But, if you prefer to just read pages, I'd still say to pick it up. It's a worthwhile read.

If I had to pick an area that could be improved in this book is just the cover and title of the book. I understand why Amber Alert was chosen, but I think it could have had a different title that could draw in more readers, same with the background. It's a good book and I enjoyed it, I just feel like these elements, if changed, might draw more readers into this book to enjoy it as well.
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carissaburks | 12 outras críticas | Mar 14, 2023 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
A surprising book where the suspense is masterful and leads us into a story of senseless disappearance, bringing to the surface an old tragedy which is an unintentional accident, having caused incurable trauma.

The atmosphere of the story is oppressive, and we slip into the heart of the hero's vacillating psyche. The choice of words is fantastic and you can feel the gamut from fear to horror at times.

A fascinating story that we will not forget!

The sudden disappearance of his wife plunges her husband crescendo into a descent into hell very realistic, sometimes macabre, but unbearable so much the words strike us deep within us.
The enigma escalates further as a burnt and unidentifiable body is found in the couple's own car!

Captivating!
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Louanne | 5 outras críticas | Oct 28, 2022 |
Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing.
I absolutely could not put this book down. It's one of those reads where you try to figure out how it will end and then you just have to know if you were right. It starts out as two separate stories and the fun comes in finding out how they come together. I figured part of it out but never saw most of it. It was a blast reading this book.
The characters, if not loveable, are at least interesting. The author uses them well and has a plot compelling enough to justify late night reading. I now await the next book in this series.… (mais)
 
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daveb66 | 3 outras críticas | Oct 20, 2022 |
From the supermarket explosion, this thriller novel develops many ‘personal ‘explosions. There are many twists and turns in the plot, convoluted and very strong but I cannot really say that I enjoyed it. The ending was sudden and disappointing. Is there a sequel?
I received this book from LibraryThing for an honest review and I award it 2 stars.
 
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Kintra | 3 outras críticas | Oct 6, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
9
Membros
127
Popularidade
#158,248
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
47
ISBN
12

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