Survivor is emotional and gut-wrenching and much more than just another suspenseful thriller. If it is ever made into a movie I won’t bitch and moan like I usually do if my husband wants to drag me to it. I would love to see this on the big screen.

A murder of young art student threatened the cocooned safety of coastal town by bringing out buried secrets, lies, guilt, injustice, wrong punishments, regrets of the past related with the big storm which took away three people’s lives and traumatized their families’ lives forever! Er is iets tragisch gebeurd, en de toon is gezet. Als je in het volgende hoofdstuk in het verleden van de broers als kind duikt, kun je je niet meer van het onbehaaglijke gevoel ontdoen. Ook al schittert de zon boven het meer, ook al lijken het ossenbloedrode zomerhuis, de berkenbossen, de sauna op een cliché uit een vakantiebrochure voor Småland. Nee, terwijl je doorleest zit de adem hoog in je longen. This was my fourth read by Jane Harper - though I wouldn’t say it was my favourite, think my fave is still The Lost Man. Wie mijn boek ‘Broere’ kent of mijn geschiedenis weet, kijkt er niet van op dat ik ‘De overlevenden’ absoluut wilde lezen. De broers, de herinneringen. Schulman moest het nog waarmaken ook, maar dat doet hij, en het zal je niet verbazen dat dit boek — juist door het inzoomen op een kindertijd en door de manier waarop de ouders worden neergezet — dicht op mijn huid zat.

Although Jane Harper juggles a large cast of characters, there’s a clarity to her writing that keeps all personalities and strands of the plot in focus. Everything feels naturalistic and believable.

James Herbert was Britain's number one bestselling writer (a position he held ever since publication of his first novel) and one of the world's top writers of thriller/horror fiction. Josef's story is an account of his unbreakable spirit, unshakable faith and courage in the face of evil. The Jewish Telegraph . With his freedom, Josef returned home to find that he was the only one left alive in an extended family of 150. Compelled by the need to do something to avenge that loss, he joined the Jewish police while still in a displaced persons' camp, and was recruited as an intelligence officer for the US Army who gave him a team to search for Nazis in hiding. I never really liked any of the characters, and it all felt complicated for the sake of complication. There were so many secrets that didn't need to be secrets. Because of this, it also feels like there was a lot that was never properly explained.

Trei frați revin la casa de vacanță a copilăriei lor, în căutarea unor răspunsuri. Totul are legătură cu un accident petrecut într-o vară, în urmă cu 20 de ani. A riveting, compelling, mesmerizing journey. Josef Lewkowicz is a hero in every sense of the word. The Survivor both terrifies us and inspires us. It's a must read.' My fourth Herbert read, after THE RATS, THE FOG and OTHERS. This is the weakest yet and despite an intriguing Australian film adaptation with Robert Powell it's a pretty uninspiring and familiar story. Before I say anything else, I just have to gush over the beautiful book cover. The moodiness of it is brilliant, and paints a perfect picture of how I imagined the beach in Evelyn Bay to look. Da bambina Jane Harper si è spostata dalla nativa Inghilterra all’Australia. Credo che ormai la si possa considerare australiana a tutti gli effetti. E in Australia sono ambientati i suoi tre romanzi dedicati all’agente federale Aaron Falk, con un fortissimo senso del paesaggio, che diventa un personaggio protagonista a tutti gli effetti, luoghi che plasmano inevitabilmente la vita di chi li abita.

You know you're having a bad day when your suicide attempt is interrupted by a bank robbery. Just the kind of day Nate Overbay is having. He's on an 11th floor ledge - having crawled out of the window of his bank - very carefully choosing his landing spot in a dumpster (so he doesn't squash anyone) when he hears a gunshot and sees the blood splatter on the window next to him. When he realizes that a group of masked gunmen are robbing the bank, Nate is torn. He's determined to go through with his jump, but the gunmen have already killed a couple of people and they make clear they're perfectly willing to kill more, including a little girl who reminds Nate of his own daughter. What's an ex-soldier to do? The Survivor is one of those very rare horror novels that’s not only incredibly readable, but actually legit spooky. There are a couple of chapters here (specifically chapter 11 and chapter 19) that are flat out some of the creepiest moment in a novel I’ve read in a long time. I won’t say it’s nightmare inducing by any means, but the way Herbert writes and the way he ties things into the story is quite good. In the same year Living On The Volcano, which exposed the pressures on managers, was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize. No Nonsense, his collaboration with Joey Barton, was named Autobiography of the Year in the 2017 British Sports Book awards.The idea of a single survivor of a plane crash trying to find the reason for the crash, and for him being left alive sounds great...but the execution was terrible. I don’t know what it is with Nordic authors and their penchant for semi autobiographical content that is heralded as the next messiah of literature. I hate it. It gives me the creeps, guessing whether a horrid scene is made up or happened to the author. The twist at the end was a jaw dropper that I abhorred. For a book told from a male's POV, this sure wants to make a point about how hard it is to be a woman. It reminds us that women can't walk in the dark without feeling safe and that beautiful women will always be harassed and blamed for being beautiful. As a woman I totally get these issues, but it just felt so out of place the way it was discussed in this story. She worked too hard to make a point of it, and it grated for me because it never felt organic. Especially when she spent so much time talking about how attractive the females in this book were. Overall, it was pretty jarring and made me feel awkward. Overall, this is another Hurwitz book that I would highly recommend. I find Hurwitz to be a refreshing author. He adds suspense but keeps things somewhat realistic throughout the book, so it keeps you hooked from the very start of the book. He is a creative author and I have not read any of his books that let me down. I look forward to more Hurwitz books in the future.