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Dismantled

by Jennifer McMahon

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"An eerie and gripping tale of suspense....A triumph." --Boston Globe   The author of the New York Times bestseller Island of Lost Girls, Jennifer McMahon returns with Dismantled--a stunning and chilling thriller that further burnishes her reputation as, "One of the brightest new stars of literary suspense" (Los Angeles Times online). Stewart O'Nan, author of Songs for the Missing, calls Dismantled, "A fun, twisty thriller. Expect comparisons to The Secret History." Readers of Laura Lippman, Tana French, and Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones will not be able to shake this breathtaking tale of the dark consequences of a group of college friends' belief that all things--and people--must be taken apart to be truly understood.… (more)
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Didn't care for these characters. They got on my last nerve. ( )
  MickeyMole | Oct 2, 2023 |
At first I found this book interesting and intriguing. The adult characters were somewhat annoying but the daughter was fascinating. However I felt by the last 100 pages it was loosing its way. too many 'coincidences' and an ending that left much to be desired.

Hugely dissapointing as the story had a lot of potential. ( )
  rosienotrose | Jul 11, 2023 |
More creepy than the other two books of hers I have read, it also was a little long in spots, and a built too far fetched/nicely wrapped up, but still it was a good read. This author has an amazing gift for telling a story. ( )
  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
Ok, so that was extremely different from Jennifer McMahon’s previous books that I’ve read, but I totally loved it! Four young adults make a life changing decision right after college, and 10 years later it comes back to literally bite them in the rear. The numerous twists and turns made my head spin. I finished it in one sitting and was left with my mouth hanging open, thinking “damnnnn”. ( )
  purple_pisces22 | Mar 14, 2021 |
Jennifer pulls it off once again! Brilliant- I didn't see the twist at the end. I also loved how she incorporated Danner at the very end as well. Kept me on the edge the whole time- another great haunting mystery! ( )
  Chelz286 | Aug 26, 2018 |
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McMahon has constructed an intricate back story for the strange behavior of the 9-year-old Emma DeForge, who seems to have channeled Suz’s spirit as an imaginary friend she calls Danner. But for all the story’s spooky trappings, it’s ultimately about Emma’s unhappiness at her parents’ very real separation.
 
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For Michael, who knows how to take things apart
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"Dismantlement equals freedom."
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"An eerie and gripping tale of suspense....A triumph." --Boston Globe   The author of the New York Times bestseller Island of Lost Girls, Jennifer McMahon returns with Dismantled--a stunning and chilling thriller that further burnishes her reputation as, "One of the brightest new stars of literary suspense" (Los Angeles Times online). Stewart O'Nan, author of Songs for the Missing, calls Dismantled, "A fun, twisty thriller. Expect comparisons to The Secret History." Readers of Laura Lippman, Tana French, and Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones will not be able to shake this breathtaking tale of the dark consequences of a group of college friends' belief that all things--and people--must be taken apart to be truly understood.

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Henry, Tess, Winnie and Suz banded together in college to form a group they called the Compassionate Dismantlers. Following the first rule of their manifesto - "To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart" - these daring misfits spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin in the Vermont woods committing acts of meaningful vandalism and plotting elaborate, often dangerous, pranks. But everythign changes when one particularly twisted experiment ends in Suz's death and the others decide to cover it up.

Nearly a decade later, Henry and Tess are living just an hour's drive from the old cabin. Each is desperate to move on from the summer of the Dismantlers, but their guilt isn't ready to let them go. When a victim of their past pranks commits suicide - apparently triggered by a mysterious Dismantler-style postcard - it sets off a chain of eerie events that threatens to engulf Henry, Tess and their inquisitive nine-year-old daughter, Emma. Is there someone who wants to reveal their secrets? Is it possible that Suz did not really die - or has she somehow found a way back to seek revenge?
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