Fragile

A Novel

De: Lisa Unger

Narrado por: Nancy Linari

A thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger about the hunt for a missing girl and one community’s intricate yet fragile bonds.

“[A] nail-biting nuanced whodunit.”—People

Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. It’s a place where neighbors keep an eye on one another’s kids, where people say hello in the grocery store, and where high school cliques and antics are never quite forgotten. As a child, Maggie found living under the microscope of small-town life stifling. But as a wife and mother, she has happily returned to The Hollows’s insular embrace. As a psychologist, her knowledge of family histories provides powerful insights into her patients’ lives. So when the girlfriend of her teenage son, Rick, disappears, Maggie’s intuitive gift proves useful to the case—and also dangerous.

Eerie parallels soon emerge between Charlene’s disappearance and the abduction of another local girl that shook the community years ago when Maggie was a teenager. The investigation has her husband, Jones, the lead detective on the case, acting strangely. Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more withdrawn. In a town where the past is always present, nobody is above suspicion, not even a son in the eyes of his father.

As she tries to reassure him that Rick embodies his father in all of the important ways, Maggie realizes this might be exactly what Jones fears most. Determined to uncover the truth, Maggie pursues her own leads into Charlene’s disappearance and exposes a long-buried town secret—one that could destroy everything she holds dear.

Lisa Unger Knocks It Out of the Park Again

This is the 3rd book of hers, but 1st I've left a review for. I've been reading a new one as soon as I'm done with the previous. I adore her writing; it is incredibly smart, accessible, and Unger knows about the human psyche and its many manifestations in a way I'm not sure I've seen before. The psychological aspect with each plot is complex, detailed & she weaves vocabulary like a poem of sentences. She also picks great narrators for all of them- it's like their voices were made for the stories. Quit reading this and go listen!

An interesting novel, well written and captivating

Lisa Unger expertly builds a complex story of lives and tragedies in a small community. The thread is the disparition of two young girls two decades apart. The protagonists are linked in many ways and the the truth is slowly revealed.
I enjoyed the journey.

Boring

Disliked character development, too many characters, story lines unclear and difficult to follow. I am an audiobook listener of many years, as well as an avid reader for 70 years.

So good, I am hooked!!

I love the character development, the only thing that bothers me about the book was Maggie being the therapist for people she knows personally, I don't give anything away. As a licensed therapist (retired) I can say that is a big No No and even a fictious ethical breach annoys me, other then that I really identified with Maggie's insights on being a mother who's child is in the stage that her son was in and her emotional reflections of a motherhood. The narrator did a great job and I was locked into the story the entire time, so much so that I was inspired to listen to Darkness My Old Friend next, I just can't seem to get enough of the Hollows. I recommend this book it has All the Feels!

Interesting

The story kept my interest throughout. Being married to a clinical psychologist myself, I thought her character, Maggie, was good as a therapist. Lesson on keeping secrets was compelling in that they can come back to haunt you, and can also make your life complicated and miserable. I like this author and have listened to a couple other books, I’ll continue to add to my library.