Heartbreaker

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Heartbreaker is released 10 September. Read our review of the Tania Carver novel Choked here, and Truth or Dare here. Aside from those concerns, the rest of the story was a solid read! I loved the suspense aspect of the book, both main characters were likable and complemented each other well, and the side characters were fantastic too (loved Noah!). If I didn’t have to pause it twice to go to other books, I know this is a story I would’ve finished in one sitting. Read this after being caught up on the addictive DCI Craig Gillard series. While that series excels in the detective-work-and-personal-life story arc, Heartbreaker falls in a different genre. While there are detectives and lawyers in the cast later in the book, the main characters are journalists - plus some terrorists.

Wow, the world building here is awesome incorporating Warren Jeff’s FLDS with the weird physics of Stranger Things. I hate to say more because it is a much better read if you don’t know even the basic plot. However, if you are ready for something different, this is it.Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey is a highly recommended, quirky, unique character driven novel that is part dystopian, part alternate reality. I could not put this book down. In turns,hilarious and harrowing, Heartbreaker’s icy exactitude is direct, disturbed and entirely splendid.” A story told in three parts by three different characters, Pony, the dog and Supernatural, this one is definitely in the realm of weird fiction. From the bizarre cult suspended in the 80’s to the hyper-intelligent dog this story in an exercise in mind-bending and suspension of disbelief. It is not a linear, straightforward story as much as a collection of thoughts and feelings. Can someone can please tell me how to rig up my antennae so I only receive broadcasts from 1985? I would be immensely appreciative. If I could just skip the next few years and retreat into The Golden Girls and Wham! that would be ideal.

Hughes, Sarah (13 February 2020). "25 of the best new YA books, from Diary of a Confused Feminist to Wonderland". i . Retrieved 25 May 2022. A strange cult, everything 1980s, weird traditions, three primary narrators being a girl, a dog and a boy - sure I was fascinated, but then it all got too weird and too confusing. I am not even sure I understood what the author was trying to convey in some parts. There's no definite timeline in the story and at times absolutely nothing made sense to me. The peculiar writing style, which I found intriguing at the beginning got so convoluted that I was genuinely struggling. I know it is supposed to be brilliant in some way, but I couldn't see it. Told from the perspectives of Pony, a dog, and a teenage boy, this book shows the magic of Dey’s imagination.” — The Millions The first book in Julie Garwood's romantic suspense series gets off to a slow start. It took me a week to read this book. I had a hard time with the continuous descriptions and extraneous facts that were thrown into the story. I think a good editor could have slimmed this book down to a manageable story. This is a book like no other. It’s eerie, it’s cult-y, it’s so very exciting, and I never wanted it to end.” — Buzzfeed, Best Books of Fall 2018

James-Brent Styan talks to us about ‘Heartbreaker’

We are what we have lost, I countered. Here was a way of thinking we could tear apart together. Thinking that reminded us we were alive, and what an inconsistent experience that was proving to be. We are what we have lost, I offered again.”