Brian Freeman (1) (1963–)

Hallie Evers wakes up in a hospital bed after experiencing a very, very bad day, and things soon go from bad to weird. She’s having vivid dreams of people she doesn’t know and places she hasn’t been that are somehow as familiar as her own memories. She feels like she’s being watched and then followed, and it’s not long before she’s fleeing cross country from an unknown killer.

I Remember You is a twisty thriller that kept me reading into the wee hours of the morning. Hallie is a show more main character with many flaws. She has a family history of metal illness and a personal history with substance abuse that leads the reader to wonder if she’s truly under assault or just being paranoid, further building the suspense page by page. Though I had an inkling of who might be involved with the attacks against Hallie, Freeman really kept me guessing right up to the climactic conclusion. I enjoyed how everything tied together in the end in a way I did not expect, and I appreciated the thorough story wrap-up in the final chapter. 4.5 stars! show less

My library's mistake produced a pretty good end result when I received the book with the right title...but the wrong author. I've read Brian Freeman's books before so rather than returning it, I kept it and read it. Glad that I did. For Hallie Evers it was the worst fourth of July imaginable. It's not every day that your boss fires you, your boyfriend texts a break-up and informs you that he's going to date your roommate, oh...and did I mention that you are pronounced dead? This is only the show more beginning for Hallie. She has memories that are clearly NOT hers and after being released from the hospital that she doesn't remember ever being taken to, by a doctor that she's never seen or met before but obviously knows her, she boards a plane for Boston, a city that she feels she has to return to but knows she has NEVER been anywhere near. Once there she will meet a sister that she remembers vividly but also remembers that she is an only child. This nightmare is not finished with her by any means. A pair of assailants nearly kidnap her before they’re run off, and Todd Kivel, a private eye who appears out of nowhere to rescue her, gets killed for his trouble. Clearly Hallie’s being tracked by some unknown someone who is plotting a deeper game. I did almost figure it out...but not all of it. Just when you think that the "Big Reveal" has arrived...you're wrong. It's only the beginning to a new set of mysteries. The question remains are these or are they not the worst, most confusing dreams ever ...and whose dreams, are they? This book was without a doubt one of the best "mistakes" I ever read. show less

I felt the story was overly contrived. The main character, author Lisa Powers, was written to be more famous than Stephen King or even John Lennon. No matter how small town your town is, not 120% of every human will recognize you. 90% of the book you learn at the end follows the plot line of Powers' claim to fame book, which is terribly contrived and left me often yelling at my Kindle "oh come on!". Then the last chapter throws in a twist that albeit interesting (and you can see it coming a show more couple of chapters prior), makes you realize you wasted your time on the first 90% of a poorly written story. Freeman had a good plot, but IMHO he stretched the coincidences far too much, and tied so many characters conveniently together. I got this on Amazon Prime's free reads. I guess you get what you pay for. show less

Sin duda mucho mejor que la primera entrega de esta serie, si el primer libro fue bueno, este es mucho mejor.

Desde la primera página hasta la última, Brian Freeman nos lleva en una literal montaña rusa. Una historia ambientada nada menos que en la ciudad de Las Vegas, la capital del pecado, asesinatos, mafia, matones a sueldo y por supuesto un asesino en serie.

Hablando del thriller el ritmo es espectacular, no te da un respiro, tenemos a un asesino en serie meticuloso, frío e show more inteligente, pero no es el único malo de esta historia y creo que eso le da un plus que nos hace retener el aliento por momentos. La investigación es intrincada, complicada y muy bien manejada.

Brian Freeman les da a sus libros un toque que no había visto antes y me refiero a que el peso de la vida personal de sus protagonistas y actores es tan importante y tan fuerte como la misma historia del thriller, si bien es una de las características principales en la novela negra, en este caso lo he sentido con más peso que en cualquier otra que haya leído.

La personalidad de John Stride, sus razones, sus motivos para moverse de ciudad, el profundo amor que siente por Serena y en el caso de ella, su pasado, su amor por Stride, pero también el reconocimiento de lo que es ella y sus tentaciones, tienen tanto peso dentro del libro como los propios asesinatos.

Me encanta el estilo de Freeman, me encanta su manera de contar sus historias, pero me gustan mucho más lo que cuenta, es tan común que en este género los autores norteamericanos sean tan peliculeros, es tan fácil ver que todos escriben sus libros esperando que alguien les filme una película, es tan definido ese estilo en ellos que casi podría leer un libro de este género sin saber quién lo escribe y saber que fue escrito por un norteamericano, sin embargo, Freeman no es así, no tiene ese estilo tan típico de sus coterráneos, no voy a negar que algunas escenas son muy típicas de “Duro de matar”, pero en lo general se centra en su historia, en lo que cuenta y no en la acción que conlleva dicha historia.

Un autor a seguir, tengo poco de haberlo descubierto, por supuesto que seguiré la serie, me gusta mucho y vale la pena leerlo, es entretenimiento asegurado show less