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Erin Flanagan

Blackout: A Thriller Kindle Edition

by Erin Flanagan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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In this unforgettable psychological thriller, the dark is a terrifying mystery for a woman on the edge.

Seven hard-won months into her sobriety, sociology professor Maris Heilman has her first blackout. She chalks it up to exhaustion, though she fears that her husband and daughter will suspect she’s drinking again. Whatever their cause, the glitches start becoming more frequent. Sometimes minutes, sometimes longer, but always leaving Maris with the same disorienting question: Where have I been?

Then another blackout lands Maris in the ER, where she makes an alarming discovery. A network of women is battling the same inexplicable malady. Is it a bizarre coincidence or something more sinister? What do all the women have in common besides missing time? Or is it who they have in common?

In a desperate search for answers, Maris has no idea what’s coming next—just the escalating paranoia that her memories may be beyond her control, and that everything she knows could disappear in the blink of an eye.

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Thomas & Mercer
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1 July 2022
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“Flanagan keeps the reader guessing to the surprising climax. She remains a writer to watch.” —Publishers Weekly

“Intense and creepy, Blackout is a slow-burn thriller that explores the intersection of cutting-edge technology and the Me Too movement. You won’t be able to put Blackout down until you find out how all the pieces of the puzzle fit together!” —Aggie Blum Thompson, author of I Don’t Forgive You

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You walk into the kitchen. You grab a glass. You open the refrigerator. The next thing you know, you are sitting in your car with no memory of anything that happened between the kitchen and your vehicle. You’ve lost time.

What do you do? Do you call for help? Do you admit there might be a problem? Do you mention the stress?

For Maris Heilman, the choice is especially complicated. While she’s a successful sociology professor, she’s also a recovering alcoholic who was prone to blackouts. But it turns out she’s not alone: there’s a group of women all experiencing the same unexpected blackouts. Are they suffering from a strange illness? Or is someone more nefarious behind these memory losses?

What would you do if you couldn’t trust your thoughts? Your memory? Your instincts?

In Blackout, Erin Flanagan creates a terrifying thriller that leaves you questioning everyone in your life—and how much control you really have.

—Jessica Tribble Wells, Editor

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09MCZ798K
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas & Mercer (1 July 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8803 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 303 pages

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Erin Flanagan's most recent novel, Blackout, was a June 2022 Amazon First Reads pick. Her first novel, Deer Season, won the 2022 Edgar for Best First Novel by an American Author. She is also the author of two short story collections: The Usual Mistakes and It's Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories. Erin is an English professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a regular book reviewer for Publishers Weekly. For more information about her and her writing, please visit www.erinflanagan.net or say hello on Twitter or Instagram at @erinlflanagan.

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A. Linton

Strong writing ruined by a ludicrous plot

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2022

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Initially I had high hopes for this book. I loved Flanagan's witing style and her descriptions of Maris drinking problems and her relationship with her husband and daughter and her struggles to get tenure in her academic job were very realistic and believable. But that was before the ridiculous plot kicked in - involving a mad scientist and something to do with brainwaves and the book took a steep downward turn as four pretty average women turn into super hackers./supersleuth to defeat a diabolical plot. The writing also goes south as if the author herself didn't believe the nonsense she was writing. I am astounded that such an intelligent author could come up with such a ridiculous idea or why anyone would think this was publishable. I would have been happy enough just reading about Maris, N oel and Cody and how they worked out their problems I also got sick to death of the wokeness of it all the not too subtle subtext 'aren't men awful?' another author hoping to jump on he ‘Me-Too’ bandwagon - which will date this book horribly in a few years’ time. Three stars for the good first half, an exceptionally good portrayal of alcohol addiction – however, taking the book as a whole I can see why I got it for free in First Reads. What a shame – this has all the makings of a really good novel until the plot kicked in.

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elbe

Hardly a thriller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2022

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This wasn't an edge of your seat thriller. I finished it in one sitting simply because it was so easy to skip irrelevant content. An ok read for a Kindle first freebie but very mundane. Not an author I'm going to be following in the future.

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VC

This will really exercise your eyerolling muscles

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2022

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Oh boy.

This was pretty bad. The writing itself was okay. It was readable in that middle of the road way that thrillers can be. The protagonist, Maris, is a junior sociology professor at a Midwestern university and lives with her husband and daughter froma previous relationship. After an incident months before, she quit drinking. But people who were close to her don't really believe she's quit.

So, Maris is trying for tenure. She's supposedly a feminist who has a decent social media following because she writes think pieces on white male privilege, and about a local rape case where the rapist only served 4 months. And then the blackouts start.

Without spoiling it, it's the most over the top story I've read in a long time. It's not based in reality or science. And Maris' feminism feels weird and inauthentic. It's the most white lady feminism ever; it's so bad it feels like a parody. The story was stupid. The pacing went wonky about halfway through. And the resolution was an insult to people who manage to sit through the whole thing.

Do yourself a favour and miss this one.

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Angie T.D.

Not For Me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2022

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Oh dear, I've done it again .Picked a book that I thought sounded good, and right up my street and pleased that it was my freebie for the month, only to start reading it, and wondering what I had chosen, and why. This was not the book that I was expecting or hoping for, and it just didn't read well for me. Another wasted opportunity to read a book that I thought I would enjoy. Only thing I am glad about is I didn't have to pay for it.

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susan gates

Go woke go broke

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2022

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I received this book as an Amazon first reads . Very sad to have wasted my allocation on this . It started with far too much detail about cooking chicken wings . It very soon developed a subtext of toxic masculinity , white privilege and intersectional victimhood . I found I just could not read on . Glad I did not pay for it .

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An unmemorable book about memory loss

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2022

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Erin Flanagan's new book 'Blackout' required the reader to be either very gullible or to suspend all belief in the laws of science.

There's an interesting plot about a sociologist who has written extensively about a local rape case and now finds she can't get tenure at her university due to prejudice against her. There's a not so interesting plot about somebody struggling with sobriety after a long life of alcohol abuse. There's a sub-plot about a young woman out for revenge, and old misogynist prof with a history of stealing his female researchers work. And then just when you think it might all sort of make sense, you're going to have to accept a modern-day Stepford Wives-like manipulation based on RFID technology that's utterly bonkers.

It's fast-paced and a quick read but I'm absolutely not buying the made-up science in the slightest. You either need to put this sort of pseudo science into a near-future dystopian novel or make the technology a lot more believable.

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