Heartbroken, Lisa Unger
Heartbroken, Lisa Unger
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Heartbroken

Author: Lisa Unger

Narrator: Amanda Carlin

Unabridged: 13 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2012


Synopsis

Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real, generation-old love story that ended in tragedy. On the other side of town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. She’s in a dead-end job and is involved with the wrong man; she can feel herself being drawn into darkness, with horrific consequences. With nowhere to go, she finds herself on the run. Without knowing each other, and with lives that couldn’t be more different, Kate and Emily head to the same point on the map: Heart Island, an idyllic place in the middle of a lake in the Adirondacks, owned for generations by Birdie Burke’s family. The harsh and unyielding Birdie is at one with this island, which has a terrifying history all its own. She, too, has consequences to face.
 
Heartbroken is a tense, mesmerizing novel about the limits of dysfunctional families, of an island haunted by dark memories and restless ghosts, and of the all-too-real demons we must battle.

About The Author

LISA UNGER is an award-winning New York Times and internationally bestselling author. Her novels have sold more than one million copies in the United States and have been translated into twenty-six languages.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Lynn Christi on 2022-12-10 11:33:07

Very disappointed. My first and last book with this author. Book did not keep my attention & found myself wishing it would be over soon. I kept hoping it got better & more interesting but that never happened. I tried to rate it but audiobooks would not accept the low rating. I would have given it 1 star.

Goodreads review by Wendy on August 22, 2013

It's DRAMA. I bought the book based upon quotes appearing on the book's backside. Not reader quotes, but "expert" quotes you should be able to trust. "Read it alone on an island on a dark and stormy night." Doesn't USA Today's quote suggest Horror? In the very least, it implies Scary. If you're stil......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 15, 2012

After being intrigued by Darkness, My Old Friend and captivated by Fragile when the opportunity to get an advanced reader copy of Lisa Unger's new novel Hearbroken arose, I immediately said yes. Unger is slowly making her way to the top of "must read" list of current mystery writers along with Laura......more

Goodreads review by Robyn on July 09, 2012

I love this author, but I was not impressed with this book. I did not like the plot and I really hated the character of Emily. I felt she made too many excuses for her bad choices. I thought there would be more in the plot about the island ghosts, but there wasn't. Normally Lisa Unger writes fast pac......more

Goodreads review by Roxanne on August 03, 2012

Would really like to rate 3.5 stars. This book had a "Nancy Drew" feel to it and that was exciting for me. I can remember the mystery series and how as a young girl I got that suspense "high" out of it. Heartbroken to me was part mystery, part suspense, and part family drama. It focuses on mother and......more

Goodreads review by Dana on July 23, 2012

This is my first Lisa Unger book and it won't be my last. I love how she makes all her characters so real and with so much detail to the emotions being played out.......more


Quotes

“Suspenseful. . . . An intense psychological thriller that explores a family with complex relationships, destructive secrets and uneasy legacies. . . . [Unger] keeps the tension high as she delves deep into each woman’s psyche, showing how the smallest decision can have far-reaching consequences.”South Florida Sun Sentinel
 
“[An] insidious psychological thriller. Set, quite appropriately, on a claustrophobic island.”Chicago Tribune
 
“A superb stylist. . . . [Unger] probes the psychological dimensions of her characters with tremendous empathy and acumen. . . . Readers will be haunted for a long time by this profound and heart-pounding thriller.”Florida Weekly“[Lisa Unger is] a genuinely formidable voice in the world of dark thrillers, taking a back seat to no one.  When [she] hits the ground, she does so at a full out sprint and leaves the reader breathless trying to keep up.”Examiner
 
“Just in time to chill readers to the bone on some steamy summer night… Unger creates complex, believable family relationships, especially those between mothers and daughters, and uses those familiar scenes to anchor and contrast the creeping dread of her plot.”Tampa Bay Times

“This page-turner is multi-layered and intriguing, as master storyteller Lisa Unger weaves a compelling plotline.”Bookreporter“Unger delivers compelling, fully drawn characters while at the same time putting the thrill in thriller. A first-class page-turner.”Booklist (starred review)
 
“[A] tense psychological thriller. . . . Unger skillfully builds the fissures of each of [her characters’] lives as she illustrates the power of the heart and the corrosive nature of lies.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Will captivate fans of mystery and psychological suspense. This is one of Unger’s best novels yet.”Library Journal (starred review)
 
“A triumvirate of strong women pitted against a shared past and dangerous future. . . . Unger knows how to write a taut thriller.”Kirkus Reviews