This book is breathtaking, full of surprises, twisty as hell, captivating, addictive, exciting, heart throbbing! BIG OVATION coming for it! (I already created a special tribune and new admirers for the book: read it aloud at the house in front of my besties, husband, mother in law who already drank my two bottles of Chablis and not so lovely neighbors!) Just outside Philadelphia, Dennis kidnaps three girls — Claire, Casey and Marcia — when they are waiting in the car of Claire's father to get driven home from a birthday party. He imprisons the girls in a secret underground lair beneath the Philadelphia Zoo, where they meet Patricia, who protects the girls from Dennis to save them for "The Beast", and a 9-year-old boy alter named "Hedwig", revealed to be the true dominant alter, whom Patricia and Dennis are manipulating to shut out the other alters. The girls try to escape by going through the vents, manipulating Kevin's alters, and communicating with another individual via a walkie-talkie, but all of their attempts end in failure.

Amanda Brookfield writes first class contemporary novels that are in a class of their own and The Split is a superbly written tale readers are going to love. Sub-plots include: Nina having sex with Rex; youngest Defoe daughter, Rose, getting married and already having to push away doubts; dad Oscar returning unannounced after a 30-year absence for reasons yet unknown; and one of Hannah’s new colleagues being an old friend with whom she once had A Thing and who is totally up for Another Thing (or rather, another bit of very much the same Thing) despite the fact that Hannah is now married to and has three children with Nathan ( Stephen Mangan, no relation, in case you were wondering). Morgan’s characters tell us most in the interstices, when the world falls away And all of this I absolutely loved about it. I would read a thousand books about lesbians being allowed to be just as messy as straight characters, to be allowed to make mistakes, hurt people, to not be forgiven. It’s all a very… human story, I suppose. It’s about learning from your errors, having the room to make those errors. Movie budgets, most expensive movies, most profitable movies, biggest money-losing movies". The Numbers. Archived from the original on April 19, 2021 . Retrieved July 27, 2018.

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Delve into one of the most gripping and nail-biting thrillers of the year. Set on one of the most remote islands in the world, The Split will have you sitting on the edge of your seat. the narrative was as bleak as the starkly beautiful glaciers and as deadly for the unwary.I was seriously impressed.” Crime Review No ha sido un mal libro, pero no ha sido para mi porque aunque me gustaba cómo narraba la autora y los temas que trataba como la depresión, el encontrarte en un lugar y no saber qué hacer y considero que lo trata de maravilla, no he conseguido conectar ni con Ally ni tampoco con su historia. I am always, on some level, looking for an adult contemporary novel with a sapphic main character which I enjoy. This may not sound that hard and/or specific, but given the number of them I have experienced complete and utter boredom over in the past couple of years, it becomes so. It’s also a book filled with a very likeable cast. Even when they’re making the aforementioned mistakes, they’re sympathetic. You want them to prevail, you care that they’re making those mistakes, that you can see screwing things up even as they can’t. And what I found great was that the character you might ordinarily consider to be an antagonist, the ex, who unceremoniously ditched Ally after cheating on her for months, comes across as multifaceted too. She isn’t presented as awful and that’s it. She has her reasons, she felt the breakdown of their relationship as much as Ally did.

This story shows not only how to ‘survive’ after a divorce, but also that even if separated, an ex – couple will always form a family unit when children are involved.
But also that each family is different. And how the family you grew up with, can form your own visions of your own family. This is a complex crime thriller which is exceptionally plotted out and kept me on the edge of my seat. I was holding my breath and at times a bit scared to read on. It was fantastic. If you were able to enjoy this, I'm happy for you. The above review is expressing my personal thoughts towards this book and I am afraid that these were less than favorable. It’s very rare that I laugh at books but this one got me. The relatability this book held was uncanny, I found so many parallels of myself within the main character which made me so much more invested in her story. The dad in this made me fall in love, he was the sweetest and most considerate dad I think I’ve ever read about it in a novel and so many of the things the father and daughter did mirrored parts of my life, once again making me want to read the book more. For Esther, it’s proving hard not to feel bitter watching Lucas enjoying his successful career, not to mention the attentions of his gorgeous, intelligent, and predictably younger lover. She meanwhile is struggling to forge a new life for herself, navigating the pitfalls of modern dating, while trying not to despair at the cost of living as a single woman of a certain age.

We weren’t even playing the same game. Hell, Bolton was playing a different sport that I didn’t even know existed. If I’m being perfectly honest? She was playing multiple sports, simultaneously, while I was celebrating a win that never existed. This was a well written women’s fiction read with an honest, if a little depressing, look at family breakdown. Not just a marriage, but the ramifications of divorce on the whole family. Leszkiewicz, Anna (March 19, 2018). "Public ensure Star Wars: The Last Jedi wins big at the 2018 Empire Awards". New Statesman. Archived from the original on May 20, 2022 . Retrieved December 25, 2022. Sharon Bolton’s The Split is quite a reading experience. The titular “split” seemingly involves the breakup of Felicity and her husband, Freddie. Freddie has been in prison, and Felicity has been safe from his abuse during that time. However, Freddie is now out and will do anything to find his Felicity.

I like the main characters, Jeremy made me laugh a lot. Ally and her dad have a great relationship and he reminds me of my dad which is nice. Lane, Anthony (January 22, 2017). "A Piercing Moral Debate in "The Salesman" ". The New Yorker . Retrieved August 15, 2021.Lucas and Esther are getting a divorce after spending more than two decades together, but it's hard for Esther not to be bitter as she watches Lucas enjoying his successful career and a new relationship with his much younger girlfriend. I will add on about the characters that they are so incredibly crafted, even beyond just tone. Each of them are what they should be, whether you should be rooting for them or not, they are distinct and unique. They carry their role and voice throughout the story. The author is known for her surprises, reveals and twists. How successful was she in The Split? Which of the big reveals did you see coming? To what extent does a twist have to be foreshadowed? If a reversal takes the reader completely by surprise, does this indicate the author having cheated? Busch, Anita (January 17, 2017). " 'Split' and 'xXx' merge into market while 'The Founder' may get lost in heavy traffic". Box office preview. Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on May 19, 2020 . Retrieved November 13, 2019. After a passionate courtship and a marriage that lasted two decades, Esther and Lucas are getting a divorce. Esther has to navigate a new world, watching from afar her soon to be ex-husband's life doing on with his younger new girlfriend. When their teenage son, Dylan, runs away, they have to join forces, whether they want to or not.

a b c "Split". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on March 8, 2020 . Retrieved June 23, 2021. Please keep in mind that it is near impossible to NOT spoil this book. So, you are going to get a lot of anecdotal notes on what it is like to read The Split in hopes that it will convey the urgency in which, YOU, should read it. I will go through some vague points of strengths without spoiling anything as much as possible. However, understand I’m doing the best I can here without giving ANYTHING away because that would be a sin against the literary world that I refuse to commit . I don’t deal in spoilers without fair warning, either way. However, this is particularly difficult. So, this review is gonna veer on the odd side, even for me. And that is saying a whole load of things. a b Kit, Borys (September 21, 2017). "M. Night Shyamalan's 'Glass' adds 'Unbreakable' actors". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved September 21, 2017. However, I also felt that in this book it was shown that despite a marriage that didn’t work, the differences between two people, when it truly matters, all those differences aren’t of importance.
Because there was a time that these two people loved each other, resulting in two children. And no matter what, the children always have the highest priority, even if that means facing a past you would rather forget. This is the first queer romance I read, and it did not disappoint at all. I would definitely put this book under the “rom/com” category because, for me, it definitely has the qualities of a good comedy. But Laura Kay’s The Split is way more than just a cute and funny novel - it is a story of friendships and what it is like to rediscover life without someone you have spent so many years with. It is messy, it is honest and all of this I absolutely loved. All the characters have flaws and that is usually something I give value to in a book. They make mistakes, they hurt each other and that does not make less likeable. Indeed, I loved all the characters in a book despite their many flaws. I saw myself in Ally, and that even when I thought she was making mistakes – because I had made them too.The story flows well, albeit a little slow at the start, which I think is quite intentional as it gives us the opportunity to get to know the characters and to understand the family dynamic, so when things start to heat up, we are already invested in the the minutiae of family life, and the ties, although rather fractured, which attempt to hold the family together. There is so much about this book that is just right. The characters feel like real people, the pace feels gentle and unhurried but the story keeps moving, things end well but in a way that doesn’t feel contrived or implausible. The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer – which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd. Felicity lives in fear – fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he’s out of prison, having served a term for murder, she knows he won’t give up until he finds her. Nail biting, heart-pounding suspense that leaps from one dizzying twist to another. The Split grips like permafrost.” JP Delaney.