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Fatal Reunion
Hey you! After all these years . . . "Only one person used to write to her like this. And she fell for it. And kept on falling, deeper and deeper, until there was nothing there to catch her. Except me. I picked her up and put her together. Held her together like glue that takes an age to bind. Fifteen years we've been married. But now he's back . . . A blast from the past." Guy Latimer and his wife Carlie have made a life and a child together. But there has always been someone else haunting their past--Magnus, snake-hipped and darkly sexual. Years ago, he took Carlie and brought her to the brink of suicide. Now, Blast from the Past, the website that reunites friends and lovers, brings Magnus back into the present, their present. And this time, resisting him could be murder . . .
- GenresThriller
288 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2005
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
May 6, 2018
This was a good enough read which despite the fact I didn't like the characters or find it very convincing was still one which I found strangely addictive.
In short, Guy & Carlie meet at uni with Guy suffering from a really bad-case of first-but-unrequited love. He seemed to think his whole purpose in life was to care for Carlie who, unfortunately for Guy, is obsessed with Magnus - a love affair that it will be no surprise to learn, is doomed for failure. Fifteen years on Guy & Carlie are married & after Carlie signs up for a Blast-from-the-past reunion website, Magnus is back in their lives.
My main issue with the story was I just didn't engage with the characters. Magnus was never the threat that Guy perceived him to be (I couldn't take the older Magnus seriously as the description left me visualising him like Keith Richards...no offence meant Keith) but the lies & secrets that the couple were hiding from each other caused things to spiral out of their control. With their inability to communicate & their wrong perceptions of each other how on earth had they stayed married for so long?
The burning question of course was who the headless corpse of the opening news article would turn out to be. (Now I know it needed to be a headless to keep the reader guessing as to whose body it was but to say that it had become so badly decomposed in three months sex couldn't be determined never mind that animals took the head AND clothes - c'mon!!! That Really irritated me.)The build up to the actual death was a bit of an anti-climax, I'd have liked a bit of confrontation, a bit of genuine emotion from the characters for once.
In short, Guy & Carlie meet at uni with Guy suffering from a really bad-case of first-but-unrequited love. He seemed to think his whole purpose in life was to care for Carlie who, unfortunately for Guy, is obsessed with Magnus - a love affair that it will be no surprise to learn, is doomed for failure. Fifteen years on Guy & Carlie are married & after Carlie signs up for a Blast-from-the-past reunion website, Magnus is back in their lives.
My main issue with the story was I just didn't engage with the characters. Magnus was never the threat that Guy perceived him to be (I couldn't take the older Magnus seriously as the description left me visualising him like Keith Richards...no offence meant Keith) but the lies & secrets that the couple were hiding from each other caused things to spiral out of their control. With their inability to communicate & their wrong perceptions of each other how on earth had they stayed married for so long?
The burning question of course was who the headless corpse of the opening news article would turn out to be. (Now I know it needed to be a headless to keep the reader guessing as to whose body it was but to say that it had become so badly decomposed in three months sex couldn't be determined never mind that animals took the head AND clothes - c'mon!!! That Really irritated me.)The build up to the actual death was a bit of an anti-climax, I'd have liked a bit of confrontation, a bit of genuine emotion from the characters for once.
April 10, 2010
Just finished this one and I'm afraid it left me a bit cold. I thought the style was a bit stilted, I disliked intensely the central couple, and snake hipped Magnus never really convinced me as a threat. This was also one of those books where the publishers want shooting - the blurb on the back practically tells you the story. Pretty good on the obsession front, but others do it better, and I did like the ending. A bit Sophie Hannah-ish maybe? (Don't like her books either...!) Sorry, not one of my favourites.
March 24, 2015
I found myself frustrated at how unrealistic this story was. There were parts I enjoyed but I couldn't help wondering why a husband would not simply tell his wife's first love to clear off and stop bothering her? I found the wife to be very unlikeable aswell. Maybe I completely missed the point but to me, I felt this book lacked "human" reactions and both husband and wife seemed unstable.
February 13, 2024
An ok read. Bit far fetched.
February 20, 2025
Cut 50 pages please.
But all the same, I kept on reading, which must count for something...
But all the same, I kept on reading, which must count for something...
February 28, 2010
I really enjoyed this book as it serves as a salutary warning to the use of 'reunion' sites on the internet.
Guy and Carlie are at university togther, Guy picks up the pieces when Carlie is devastated by the breakup of a relationship with a much older university lecturer. Fast forward 15 years, and Carlie and Guy are happily married, when Carlie joins an internet site called blast from the past...with devastating consequences.
Great story ,well written.
Guy and Carlie are at university togther, Guy picks up the pieces when Carlie is devastated by the breakup of a relationship with a much older university lecturer. Fast forward 15 years, and Carlie and Guy are happily married, when Carlie joins an internet site called blast from the past...with devastating consequences.
Great story ,well written.
March 20, 2011
8/10
It's a strange one for me. Only because nothing much really happens for most of the book - it's just a story of two people battleling the past. BUT it's very well written and I found myself engrossed in this book. Only took me about three days to read and I will look out for MS Evans's other books.
It's a strange one for me. Only because nothing much really happens for most of the book - it's just a story of two people battleling the past. BUT it's very well written and I found myself engrossed in this book. Only took me about three days to read and I will look out for MS Evans's other books.
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