By Darlene
Gardner
Published by:
Darlene Gardner
Publication
Date: Aug. 1, 2013
ISBN:
9781301328260
Amazon Synopsis:
An Original Publication. These are
the first three 25,000-word volumes of a nine-volume New Adult serial with
mystery, romance and missing memories. The three volumes together equal the
length of a traditional book.
ILLUSION Volume
One of the Dead Ringers serial
Do you know where your time
went? Jade’s memories of the two days she
went missing are slowly returning, but they involve a blinding headache and an
evil clown with a syringe. Not exactly the stuff of sanity.
INVERTIGO Volume
Two of the Dead Ringers serial
Do you know who you can trust? Max insists Jade’s best chance to find out why she
remembers so little of her abduction is to team up with him. But can she trust
him?
THE SPIDER Volume
Three of the Dead Ringers serial
Do you know where the Black Widow is? Someone in Midway Beach isn’t who they seem and unless
Jade and Max can figure out what’s going on, they could become the next
victims.
My Thoughts:
There are a lot
of things going on in this book. Hang on and see if you can keep up. Jade Green
is an 18-year-old resident of the small vacation town of Midway Beach. Jade is
a fan of horror movies and books.
I like that the
serial is written from her point of view, to the point that she tells us what
she would like to say to the people and not just what she actually says. Jade talks like a teenager, and sometimes
uses a bit of crude language. Her life
is complicated….
Jade Green knows she was abducted, and can’t
remember what happened during the two days she was missing. Trouble is, no one
believes that she was missing. That’s not the only complication in her life
though. Jade’s mom is a paranoid schizophrenic and took off for 6 months,
during which time her step-father was arrested and jailed for armed robbery.
Now her mother has returned and is telling Jade she is in danger - “Not my
enemies”… “Yours.”
Then there’s
the handsome Max Harper. He’s missing a couple of days too, so he and Jade team
up to figure out what happened. But is Max who he truly claims to be? When he
suggests that they let people think they are dating each other so they can work
together on the why they were abducted, Jade agrees, but only to using it as a
cover. My favourite quote of the book is Max’s response to this. “If I have to
be a fake boyfriend,” he says with gusto, “I’m gonna be the best fake boyfriend
I can be.”
Jade and Max
get caught up in murders, bomb scares, and memory flashbacks of their
abductions as they seek to figure out what happened to them. There are so many
plot twists and turns that you’ll want to keep reading until you’ve finished
the entire book. While working to discover their mystery, they discover what happened
to the “Black Widow” and they believe that what happened to her is related to
their disappearances. This twist in the plot is not something could have been
predicted.
Since this is
the first three installments in a nine installment serial, the story is not yet
complete. You’ll need to read the rest to discover all that is going on.
However, the book did end at a point where there were some conclusions to the
mysteries, but then Darlene Gardner leaves us with a new one.
This book was
an amazing mix of genres, a little romance, a lot of mystery, some fantasy or
paranormal. It was a very fascinating read. While I didn’t care for some of the
language, I would read this book again. I gave it 5 stars.
Thank you to
NetGalley who provided me with a free copy of the book in exchange for my fair
and honest review. A free copy does not influence my opinion. All thoughts are
my own.
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About Darlene Gardner:
Darlene Gardner no longer spends her days waiting for an
athlete to say something interesting. Nope. Now she makes up her own quotes and
torments teenagers. Fictional teenagers. Promise.
Although leaving her life as a newspaper sportswriter behind for love and romance worked out pretty well, she’s veering off in a haunting new direction with the Dead Ringers eBook serial, landing at a beachside carnival where evil lurks and nothing is as it seems.
Darlene has more than thirty books in print, from single-title romantic comedies to emotionally charged family dramas. Updated editions of her romcoms, as well as a couple romantic mysteries, are available for the eBook market.
Although leaving her life as a newspaper sportswriter behind for love and romance worked out pretty well, she’s veering off in a haunting new direction with the Dead Ringers eBook serial, landing at a beachside carnival where evil lurks and nothing is as it seems.
Darlene has more than thirty books in print, from single-title romantic comedies to emotionally charged family dramas. Updated editions of her romcoms, as well as a couple romantic mysteries, are available for the eBook market.
Contact Darlene Gardner
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