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this as an audiobook, The narrator was interesting and it was interesting listening to the twists and turns that the story takes at a pace that you cant change if that makes sense.
Usually with a thriller, I almost fast forward read them, when the exciting stuff happens, But the reader kept going at the same pace so it almost made the exciting action lines seem boring, as they werent any different to the rest of the book.


Abby was almost a believable character except to how off the rails she went and to end up in that situation.
. . she was just unlucky but then she pieces it all together off a few clues and breadcrumbs The average person wouldnt have and probably would have gotten the police involved a lot sooner.
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It was a good story, not my favorite mystery book by any means but an interesting read and I do enjoy the author.
"If I went on sitting here, sooner or later and probably sooner, tomorrow or the next day, I could sense the moment was near he could murder me.
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Abbie Devereaux Οι Nicci French έχουν γίνει από τους αγαπημένους μου συγγραφείς αλλά η αλήθεια είναι ότι πέρα από τη σειρά με τις μέρες της Φριντα δεν είχα διαβάσει κάτι αλλά δικό τους, Το συγκεκριμένο βιβλίο, αν κι εκδόθηκε τοσε εμάς, είναι προ δεκαετίας το. Έχοντας διαβάσει λοιπόν μεταγενεστερα βιβλία τους, τείνω να ομολογήσω ότι η γραφη τους έχει εξελιχθεί.
Για να πάω στα του βιβλίου, είναι ένα ευχάριστο αστυνομικό μυθιστόρημα για να περάσεις την ώρα σου αλλά σίγουρα όχι κάτι που θα σου μείνει στη μνήμη για περισσότερο από χρόνο. Στην αρχή είναι κάπως αργό, αλλά στην πορεία ανεβάζει ρυθμούς. Σίγουρα στα συν του είναι η γραφή των συγγραφέων, που είναι εθιστική αλλά σαν πλοκή δεν είναι κάτι εξαιρετικό. Το τέλος, αν μη τι άλλο, προβλέψιμο δεν το λες, παρόλο που δεν συναρπάζει. Νομίζω ότι αυτό που μου φάνηκε πιο κουλό είναι ορισμένες αποφάσεις της πρωταγωνιστριας που σε ρεαλιστικές συνθήκες δε θα τις έπαιρνε νοήμων άνθρωπος θαρρώ.
Εντελει, καλό βιβλίο, αλλά ως εκεί. “The cold air hit me in the face, as if someone had slapped me, I gasped and my breath plumed up in the air, My eyes stung with the cold glare of light, ”

Land Of The Dead by Nicci French is the story about Abbie Devereaux who has been abducted and is trapped in a basement.
She is aware that her captor is there watching her, she knows she has to stay alive and with a miracle manages to escape from one hellish situation to another.


This is definitely a fast paced psychological thriller that can be read in one sitting, The book starts off for the point of view of Abbie, She uses her senses to describe where she is and tries to put together what is happening to her, The author is great at putting Abbies torment into view for the reader, You get a sense of everything shes going through, the intensity of this is all present throughout the book even when she manages to escape and tries to go back to her normal life.
Its here where the story throws a curve ball, As a wee warning it is quite descriptive at times when Abbie is struggling just in case anybody is sensitive to that kind of content it appears now and again not a lot.


From this point the novel has many high and low points for me, The personal struggle of the characters was written very well however at times it became quite far fetched with how the protagonist is dealt with and the absolute bummer for me was the ending, I wasnt a fan of it.
I know this book is a favourite for quite a few fans of Nicci Frenchs work however this being my first read by her I was a little disappointed with it.
I wanted to like it and for the first half I did, The idea of it all was good, there were some clever twists, the personality of the characters was strong but too often the story took directions which didnt make sense to me.



This was a good, easy to read, sometimes claustrophobic, fast paced psychological thriller, Not quite as gripping as I'd hoped for, and I wish the baddy had been more interesting, One I'd definitely recommend to fans of psychological thrillers though, Especially if you prefer books with not many characters, So the end was reaally bad, . . I don't know what's happening but just as soon I get excited about a book plot I discover a really shitty ending, Just the main idea getting lost and then round and round we go with some useless facts, boring .
And let me

freak out about the main character Abbie, I think she is effing illogical, All along the book she says that she's so afraid of the killer, that she thinks that she will came after her, And then she calmly walks in into a stranger's appartment yes I know she had a key but really and fall asleep, Oh, no one will get me here, And she stays in that apartment! She does not know a thing about it's owner just the name, which can be fake, and she stays there.
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FACEPALM!!!
An the other, She tries to rrecollect her memories, And goes to several people who were involved in her last project, to ask them about her last remembred days, So. She died her hair, and cut it off just to look different so the killer won't catch her, And we know from the beginnig that she mert with the killer somewhere, So she goes to this people each one of them can be our possible killer, and she freaking tells everybody her name!!! Like, are you stupid, or WHAT THE HELL

Naaah.
Stupid ending. Don't want to spoiler it for you, but really stupid, The whole book was ruined for me somewhere in the middle of it, but the ending, . . I'm really dissapointed

So I don't know, Definitely won't read it again, And I'm not quite sure that I would read something else from Nicci French either, I gave it one star just because the beginning was fascineting, And then nothing happened. I've read this inbut I've forgotten all of it so it was like I read a brand new story, The writing was somewhat simplistic but the intensity of this was superb, It was very long time ago since I've read a thriller book where I was so intensley engaged and glued to the page.
I had to take breaks on this as my emotions while reading this book where so intense and this was one of the rare novels that actually made me wanna bite my nails.
The kidnapping in the beginning, is not the worst I've read but Nicci French made it feels like I could Imagen the discomfort and horror to be in the situation.
And the story after just keept the intensity, Wow how many time can I use the word intense, I got two more books by Nicci French and I'm so eager to read them as well! It's been a long time since I rated a book withbut this was one of those times I just had to.
Abbie has just come out of a horrifying experience and seeks to get back to her life, But something is wrong, she cannot remember what happened before her experience, and another problem is no one really believes her, As she tries to reconnect to her prior life the pieces are not fitting into place, As she begins her journey, bit by bit the reader is given the same curve balls and begins to wonder if this is one of those stories that,in the end, was not real.
It was this form of storytelling by the author that kept the pages turning until the reader was finally put out of their misery and the truth revealed.
I had to read this book for my English class, and that kind of ruins everything it even made reading the Hobbit boring, but that aside, I didn't think this was a good book at all.


The writing was fine, The editing was fine. The point of view was fine, Even the characters were okay, It was the plot that bothered me,

It starts off interesting: Abbi awakes, doesn't know how she got there or why she's bound and hooded, Then she spends pages and pages being afraid and, well, tortured, Then she escaped.

And that's when the story takes a total unrealistic turn, Abbi just runs around being crazy, finds out she left her whole life behind for no reason, She leaves her friends because they don't believe something happened and to be honest, I started doubting her too I'm not sure if this was the writers intention or not, but if it was, they did a good job.


Some spoilers ahead: those few last days she finally manages to reconstruct are just ridiculous, It's totally out of character and a strange thing for a person to do, Live with someone you don't know And then the conclusion, . . talk about a failure. The writers could have saved the book by making a believable ending, but they manage to make the whole search for her captor pointless.
Good for her that she saves that other girl, but to be honest, I didn't really care at that point any more, And pushing your thumbs in some ones eyes That's just plain disgusting, Complete letdown.

I wouldn't suggest this book to anyone, Just go read something else, There are way better thrillers out there than this one, I will read something else of Nicci French in the future, to see if my problem was just with this particular plot or with the writers, but I won't be breaking my neck to get my hands on one.




I just noticed the other reviews about this book, and I just can't disagree more, Realistic Really! I don't know how many people you know that leave their normal lives behind, go crazy and spend all their money, decide to live with a total stranger, get hit on the head and held captive for no reason, then manage to escape, and forget how they got there in the first place!
And, no, this isn't a light or fast read.
It took me days to wade through this over the top "no one believes me!" crap,

Don't get tricked into reading it like me, It will let you down, I'mpages in and still not into this, Moving on to others. No point in finishing a book that makes me bored, ome that i cant quite like, view: One of my all time favourite UK suspense novels, A woman wakes up with partial amnesia, bound, gagged and held captive in the dark, She escapes. No one believes her, and the kidnapper is still out there!!! Totally keeps me on tenterhooks throughout, A great suspense novel!out of,

views: Such a dark pageturner from the start as a woman finds herself tied and up and held prisoner in the having no real memory of how she got there.
. . and after she escapes things get worse! It appears that my one time fave blended team of Nicci Gerard and Sean French yet again present a badass suspense thriller with real characterisation.
But evidently back in, this was not enough for me, as I gave them a paltryout, Tough audience! This book was a very nice surprise, as I only bought it by chance in a second hand bookshop that is no more.
. . The kind of thriller that you cannot put down, it kept me captivated all the way through and the reason I am giving it three is that there are some "silly" and too unbelievable elements in the plot, like the way the police handles the case.
. . Still, a very entertaining read, Eén van de beste thrillers van dit echtpaar, Origineel, eng, boeiend. “Nicci French De bewoonde wereld”


Heel lang geleden dat ik nog iets van dit schrijverskoppel las,
Maar wat ben ik blij dat ik het deed!

Verwarring alom, Is het echt Of heeft het hoofdpersonage psychische problemen
Is dit echt gebeurd of dénkt ze dit enkel
Wie is de schuldige in heel dit verhaal

Vanaf paginawerd ik onmiddellijk in het verhaal gezogen.
Het hele boek door werd de spanning opgebouwd, Geen enorm gruwelijk boek, maar wel eentje waar je je hoofd moet bijhouden,
Het einde was licht teleurstellend, dit kon beter,

Maar al bij al een toppertje!,