Delirious by Daniel Palmer
Published January 25 2011 by Kensington
Hardcover, 384 Pages
Review Copy
One day, Charlie Giles is an up-and-coming electronics superstar. The next, he's a prime homicide suspect as his former employers are picked off one by one. Charlie watches his life unravel as his company and inventions are wrenched from his control, and his family is decimated. With nowhere else to turn, he enlists his schizophrenic brother to uncover the dark family secrets that lie at the heart of the unfolding terror. "Delirious" is a mind-bending story where the line between what is real and what is imagined twists and turns...an addictive literary puzzle that every reader will want to solve.
Review
Charlie is on the brink of the perfect career. He’s smart, inventive and he’s a rising star in the technology world. He has a company and a brilliant team behind him, life couldn’t hand someone better success….. that is until his team and trusted co-workers start falling like Domino's around him.
Bit by bit all the evidence begins to lead straight to Charlie, he becomes a prime suspect in the murders and as his life begins to unravel paranoia starts to set in. Soon he’s hearing and seeing things others cant. He finds messages to himself that he doesn’t remember writing and has a terrified feeling that he’s being watched…all the time. Charlie decides to enlist help from his brother, a man suffering from his own mental illness, but even then he cant shake his worry that he might be turning out just like the man helping him. As the reader because we know there is mental illness in the family its easy to assume Charlie is suffering from the same disease. Could schizophrenia be taking over his mind…just like his brothers….or could there be someone out there setting him up. Who though would go to all the trouble to make Charlie look crazy? Who would take the time to play this twisted game? Could it be a true enemy or the enemy in his mind?
This was a fabulous and fun twisty story. Daniel Palmers debut novel opens with a shocker and ends with a shocker. From chapter one, the story grabbed me, I was on the edge of my seat biting my nails off because I really couldn’t figure out if Charlie was a nutcase or an unfortunate victim. The twists and turns induced heart pounding page flipping and proved to be a shocking, thrilling read. The depth Charlie goes to describe his fear about mental illness, his brother and the secrets in his family connect you to his character and good or bad you want things to work out for him. The mixture of a murder, mystery, schizophrenia and technology gave this book originality, depth and a surprise ending.
Rating
Delirious is recommended to adults and contains: Violence, murder, suspense, language, mental illness and some frightening elements.
3.5/5- Murder Mystery-Thriller
Thanks to Daniel Palmer for Review Copy
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And The Winner Is
The Winner of Delirious from the giveaway is
Alyssa at Teens Read and Write
Congrats Alyssa I hope you like it as much as I did!
Shocker at the beginning and the end, sounds totally me.
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard of this one. Hm... I've been seeing more thillers out there and I may have to really start getting into a few. I may have to pick this one up. I like twisty stories. :)
ReplyDeleteHey The Vixen!
ReplyDeleteI haven't given murder mystery thrillers much of a chance, but heart pounding page turning sounds fun.
I love when I don't see the ending coming. This sounds like a good one.
ReplyDeleteReally? Sounds good!
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