Adam Sternbergh

A Novel

The Blinds

This book had a really interesting concept, that of redemption and what makes us good people. A blend of a mystery, an isolated society of criminals and the moral dilemma of innocence. This book asks some very interesting questions about who we are with and without our memories and who we can change to become. 

I'd have liked to see more of a mystery angle woven into this as it felt like one thread was solved quite quickly and the other was introduced quite late. However, I do this game to a really gripping conclusion and delivered an interesting ending. 

Beth Bartholomew

This book had a really interesting concept, that of redemption and what makes us good people. A blend of a mystery, an isolated society of criminals and the moral dilemma of innocence. This book asks some very interesting questions about who we are with and without our memories and who we can change to become. 

I'd have liked to see more of a mystery angle woven into this as it felt like one thread was solved quite quickly and the other was introduced quite late. However, I do this game to a really gripping conclusion and delivered an interesting ending. 

Sometimes you pull a book off your shelf and are amazed at a choice past you made. This book was wildly interesting. Sternbergh takes the idea of witness protection to a whole new level and investigates the possibility of placing those who need a fresh start, both criminals and possibly innocents, all together with no memory of what they did to end up in the town affectionately known as the Blinds. Each gets a new name and a new life, but as one can imagine, it eventually all goes to hell. Each time you think you've got the story figured out the plot thickens. These characters will rope you in and having you wondering if erasing little memory can truly change a person after all. 

CONTENT WARNINGS: Murder, suicide, gruesome death, scientific experimentation on humans, 18+ language

Jackelyn

Sometimes you pull a book off your shelf and are amazed at a choice past you made. This book was wildly interesting. Sternbergh takes the idea of witness protection to a whole new level and investigates the possibility of placing those who need a fresh start, both criminals and possibly innocents, all together with no memory of what they did to end up in the town affectionately known as the Blinds. Each gets a new name and a new life, but as one can imagine, it eventually all goes to hell. Each time you think you've got the story figured out the plot thickens. These characters will rope you in and having you wondering if erasing little memory can truly change a person after all. 

CONTENT WARNINGS: Murder, suicide, gruesome death, scientific experimentation on humans, 18+ language

Ciska van Bokhorst

Het verhaal is orgineel, maar vond de uitvoering minder. De spanning werd eruit gehaald doordat de auteur al snel duidelijk maakt wie het is. Alleen waarom weet je niet. 
Had een ander verhaal verwacht eigenlijk.

Sally Salinas

This follows a group of criminals that enter a program that erases past misdeeds and moves them to a tiny town where they live out their days. Then the murders begin---a murder mystery, bad decision and interesting cast of characters. Some slow parts in between but the ending is very fast & exciting. Really enjoyed.

Lindsey Gentry

The concept for this book was creative and interesting from the start, and I was absolutely pulled in to the world of the Blinds from page 1. I really enjoyed this book.

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Marjan Westbroek

Jill Basilone

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Emily K McCullar

Michelle Miller

Tanya Sutton

Jillian Slindee

Jenny Smoothy

Kaitlyn Krna

From the Edgar Award-nominated author of Shovel Ready, a blistering new thriller that Dennis Lehane calls “propulsive and meaningful” For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, the Coen Brothers, and Lost Imagine a place populated by criminals—people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who’ve been granted new identities and a second chance. Welcome to The Blinds, a dusty town in rural Texas populated by misfits who don’t know if they’ve perpetrated a crime or just witnessed one. What’s clear to them is that if they leave, they will end up dead. For eight years, Sheriff Calvin Cooper has kept an uneasy peace—but after a suicide and a murder in quick succession, the town’s residents revolt. Cooper has his own secrets to protect, so when his new deputy starts digging, he needs to keep one step ahead of her—and the mysterious outsiders who threaten to tear the whole place down. The more he learns, the more the hard truth is revealed: The Blinds is no sleepy hideaway. It’s simmering with violence and deception, aching heartbreak and dark betrayals.

The Blinds A Novel

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