The Last Thing He Told Me- A Novel by Laura Dave
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Web ID: 16778402Gripping
So gripping and well-paced! While not really a thriller but more suspense/mystery, The Last Thing He Told Me held my attention for every minute. The ending brought me to tears in the best way.
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Amazing
Amazing book I was in school trying to figure out what happened with Owen. The ending though, I feel like could be a bit controversial whether people like it or not, but I loved it.
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Emotional tale
The Night We Lost Him was a moving story about two distant half siblings coming together to find out what happened to their father after the news of his death arrives. He has supposedly fell over a cliff at the house that he has owned for many many years. Sam approaches Nora in the only way he knows how. He employs her, but makes his fiancée meet and interact with her, until he arrives. After a few false starts, Nora finally agrees to meet and chat about what Sam needs to… their father’s death. It’s really really well written, the characters feel relatable and you can feel their raw grief. I shed tears reading this. It really got to me. Brilliant. Many thanks to Random House Uk, for the opportunity to read this arc copy via Netgalley. My opinion is my own. #Netgalley, #RandomHouseUk, #LauraDaveAuthor
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Frustrating in a good way
This book frustrated me but in a good way! It sucked me in instantly, and had me feeling like I could not put it down which is what I look for in a book. I found the story fresh and interesting and I loved the authors writing style.
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Enjoyed the suspense and tension
I’ve been dying to read this book to see if it lived up to the hype, I read it in two days. Couldn’t stop trying to guess where the plot was going to end up. It’s got plenty of mystery, suspense and family drama. I was very impressed with Hannah, she made tough choices and decisions not everyone would agree with. She’s happily married to Owen with a teenage stepdaughter who resents her. When Owen disappears everything Hannah believes in is turned upside down. Her quest for answers takes her from CA to Texas. She has to decide if the FBI and the U.S. Marshal are looking out for her best interest or if they just want to use her to find Owen. Some of the scenes are over the top and some events were a bit too coincidental but it didn’t bother me. Overall I really enjoyed the suspense and characters and would read the next book. This would be a great book club read, I can think of numerous topics and questions for debate. There are many “What would you do?“ situations.
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Broken People
“The Night We Lost Him” has been described by the Publisher as a combination of soulful suspense and evocative family drama. (True) It’s also labeled as a thriller-a riveting page turner-but that it is NOT. I expect a FAST pace when I see the word THRILLER, but the pace of this story is extremely SLOW. It is also depicted as an EPIC love story. (Hmmm) Hotel magnate Liam Noone was still friendly with his three ex-wives, and he was still an involved father with his three children-even though he kept his families carefully separated. But he loves them all-the BEST that he is able to. To his eldest child and only daughter, Nora, he was a father who loved her from afar – as he often spent his time at his cliffside cottage on the California coast-and she lived in Brooklyn with her mother. Windbreak was the home where Liam would go to spend time alone, or with the mysterious HER. It is also the place where he will end up falling to his death. The authorities rule the fall “accidental” but her half brother, Sam seems to believe otherwise. And, we as readers know he is correct because the PUSH is revealed in the PROLOGUE-but we don’t know WHO pushed him., Sam convinces Nora to fly to California with him in an attempt to learn the truth. When they finally find their first clue as to what may have REALLY happened the night they lost their father (not until the midway mark of the book!) they begin to uncover their father’s secret-which he had kept hidden for 51 years. It involves a woman named Cory. (not a spoiler-their chapters from the PAST start early in the narrative) I wish I could say that THEIR relationship made sense to me-but it did NOT. I also did NOT find it to be an EPIC love story-it didn’t move me EMOTIONALLY at all. I do enjoy Laura Dave’s character driven stories, and I will be watching for her next book. She writes complicated, broken people very, very well. But, THIS time the story fell flat for me.
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The last thing he told me
Excellent book. Well written and developed by the author
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Fun mystery
This was my first thriller/mystery book I’ve read. I pick it up because it’s on Reese’s Book Club recommendation. I was hooked from the very beginning. Every chapter was a suspense. I think Laura does a good job with making the the smallest details come to life. I was imagining every little detail. I really enjoyed that. I would give this book a 5 star rating but I’m giving it a 4 because of the ending. It was a very sweet ending but I feel like there should have been more to the ending.
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