Strangers by Ursula Archer, Arno Strobel 4 stars #bookreview #thriller @StMartinsPress @MinotaurBooks
Title: Strangers
Author: Ursula Archer and Arno Strobel
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Expected publication: January 9th 2018
Page Count: 320
My rating: 4 stars
About the book:
Ursula Archer’s and Arno Strobel’s internationally bestselling Strangers is a shocking thriller and mind-bending must-read. It explores what happens when mysterious foul play causes a woman not to recognize or remember her fiancé, but forces the couple to trust each other and fight the odds.
Trust or die.
Imagine you’re home alone. Suddenly a man stands before you. He claims to be your fiancé. But you have no idea who he is. And nothing in your home suggests that someone lives with you. He’s talking to you, but nothing makes sense. You’re afraid. And you feel the irresistible urge to attack. Take a knife. Are you crazy?
Imagine you come home and your fiancée doesn’t recognize you. She thinks you’re a burglar. Worse, a rapist. You just want to protect her, but she defends herself against your perceived threat and barricades herself behind a door. She claims she’s never seen you before. She obviously thinks you’re crazy. Are you?
A woman. A man. The more they try to understand the situation, the more confusing it becomes. Soon they must realize that they are in deadly danger. And there’s only one chance for survival: they must trust each other.
My review:
Strangers begins as Joanna is home alone finishing up her shower when someone is at the door but she ignores it only to hear someone moving inside her home. When confronting the stranger in her home, Erik, he claims to actually be Joanna’s fiance all the while she is sure that she does not know him and he must be some kind of stalker that is after her or her father’s money.
Just these opening pages alone completely hooked me into this book to where I did not want to put it down at all. Who is lying and who is telling the truth? Strangers by Ursula Archer and Arno Strobel is a psychological thriller that became intense on the opening pages and never let up the action and excitement. The story is told by switching the point of view between the characters so you get to see what both are thinking and feeling at any given time.
Joanna and Erik both come across as believable as the story starts and in a way I couldn’t help but feel for them both which made it hard to guess what the truth would end up being. Midway through the book the action picked up even more to toss the pace into high octane overdrive as the twists send the story into another gear. An addictive and hard to put down read but possibly crossing into the unrealistic but still entertaining side at that point. This is definitely one I’d recommend to those that like a fast pace and a lot of action in their thrillers.
I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.
I completely agree Carrie!!!! We need to know this information! It doesn’t make any sense and people would lose their followers and stats!
Are you just going to keep doing them?
I have been for like two years now and as far as I can see there isn’t any rule against it. I don’t see enforcing something that isn’t clear is wrong….and I don’t see what is wrong with sharing book info on a book blog… Just all leaves me shaking my head in confusion.
Ugh.😒
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I have no idea but the girl that I know that got suspended had other posts and so did that link i shared. Kim said she follows her too!
It makes no sense at all! People sell things all the time!
I am completely confused I’m going to investigate!
Almost all the book bloggers I follow use book tours! They told me my blog tour reviews were wrong too at first!😱
See that’s what gets me, there are tons and tons of people who do these that I’m sure have no clue and without it being mentioned then how would they? It seems they are more worried though that all that ever gets posted are the blitz type without anything else so hopefully we’ll be fine.
I will say too Dani having never heard of any of this going on before while I’ve been blogging that this sure is a lousy time of year for some kind of crack down, Merry Christmas to all…. 🙁
I know it’s horrible! Self hosting is completely confusing and like you I put a lot of effort in making my blog and they charge even more to export your stuff and they charge you for keeping your stats and followers!!!!😱😱😱 I’m so at a loss on what to do but I am seeing it happen Giselle said they have been cracking down on book bloggers!!! I have seen all kinds of blogs even blogs with nudity, drugs, and how to ha(k stuff and cheat WordPress even! But book bloggers are the ones getting cracked down for showing off new books and giveaways?!?! Don’t they think that would be more traffic to their sites and more people sign up!? My mind is blown away by this!😰
Yeah I don’t quite get it. I suppose if someone from a publisher set up something to only try to sell books then maybe that would be bad?? But being such a huge reader I absolutely love seeing new books, book covers, sales and giveaways. That is why I decided to start sharing the posts to begin with, figured if I liked seeing what’s out there then others would too and gee what better to find new books than a book blog? Duh. I still say if someone doesn’t like that sort of post then they would be free to unfollow the blog in question and find one more suitable to what they do want to see. Hopefully the fact that I also have new reviews practically every day too is enough that I can continue to share. As I always say I can’t read every book that comes out myself but if someone else sees one they like then it makes the time put into doing those posts worth it.
I hope that’s the case but I know some of the other people had original content as well. I think the whole situation is crazy!😒😒😒 I am going to be infuriated if it happens again!
I still never found that particular paragraph anywhere either. Their TOS simply says no spamming and to me these post are not spam. Sure you may see them on several blogs but be the adult and skip over if you don’t want to read them. Now someone constantly posting the same old thing, that’s spam.
Supposedly it’s written in a specific TOS. I am going to look at one of the ones they sent me to double check. If people dont like reading about new books they shouldn’t follow me hence the book-blog. Lol.
I know, my point exactly. And everyone I know that blogs takes part in them at some level even if it’s just a review for a tour every once in a while.
Exactly and I think it’s complete bullshit!😒
This is the TOS they kept sending me. I don’t see how book tours fall in that category besides promotions but its also a giveaway just giving away free stuff IDK really https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-guidelines/
I’m going to keep googlevestigating
https://en.wordpress.com/tos/
The only thing I found on either of those pages was in the TOS page it said “no spam” and in the other it says no advertising. Well technically I suppose a lot of blitzes can said to be advertising but so could a simple book review because what are we doing but telling people about books in either version of a post. Again I say it’s a book blog people there should be book posts. Duh.
Yeah I agree. I am completely confused with all of this.😒😒😒
I think we all will continue to be because it’s obviously not spelled out in the rules and unless they do they shouldn’t be enforcing it.