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Imran Mahmood

Autore di You Don't Know Me

8+ opere 140 membri 16 recensioni

Opere di Imran Mahmood

You Don't Know Me (2017) 88 copie
Finding Sophie (2024) 23 copie
I Know What I Saw (2021) 16 copie
All I Said Was True (2022) 6 copie
All I Said Was True (2023) 3 copie
Vocês Não me Conhecem (2018) 2 copie
Eu acuzatul 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1964
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
UK
Luogo di nascita
Liverpool, England, UK
Attività lavorative
barrister

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Harry and Zara are both teachers and living a normal life with their 17 year old daughter Sophie until she goes missing. Over the next few weeks they canvas everyone in the neighbourhood to see if anyone knows anything. Frustrated by the police response, the pair focus on one man who has not spoken to them. Convinced he knows something the parents decide that they need to take things into their own hands to get answers.
This book has had amazing reviews and the further I read, the further I was finding a disconnect between my enjoyment and that of other readers. I found this book way too intense and unbelievable, particularly with regards to the ending.… (altro)
 
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pluckedhighbrow | 7 altre recensioni | Mar 27, 2024 |
Seventeen year old Sophie is missing. Her parents, Harry and Zara, are besides themselves with worry and grief. The police investigation seems to be nonexistent. They take on becoming investigator, judge and jury on their own.

Told in alternating voices of Harry and Zara, but their voices use the same bland tone. I found this story extremely slow and, to be honest, as dry as reading a legal brief might be. While I found the initial jacket description compelling, the story didn’t live up to it for me. The author’s roots came thru loud in his writing. The parents, even though grieving, seemed emotionless and almost cold to me. I found them domineering and totally incapable of dealing with a teenager, borderline abusive. They used whatever and whoever to get what they feel is the correct outcome. They become judge and jury. The trial is slow and dull, one trying to save the other, spinning their tales, lawyers didn’t seem vested. The police interaction was non existent throughout the story, almost an afterthought. After the trial, we come to the ending that felt thrown together and rushed to bring the story to a close. I had a hard time connecting with these grieving parents, and totally could feel for Sophie’s emotional need. This was a total miss for me.

Thanks to Ballantine Books for this ARC. This is my honest opinion.
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LoriKBoyd | 7 altre recensioni | Mar 12, 2024 |
I didn't love this book and I didn't hate it - it was truly a mediocre read. It was slow moving for a thriller/mystery but did pick up at the end. It alternated between the voices of Harry and Zara, the parents of Sophie, who is missing and then there were occasional chapters taking place in a present day courtroom. The writing was good, I just would have liked more to the story. Thanks to NetGalley for the digital ARC.
 
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susan.h.schofield | 7 altre recensioni | Mar 3, 2024 |
Heart-wrenching combined with thrills-a-minute. Harry and Zara’s daughter Sophie has disappeared and they have no idea what to make of it, much less what to do about it. They are frantic, devastated, obsessed. And they’ve grown so far apart they can’t even share their grief. They are relentless in their questions and their searching – and maybe just a little afraid of finding a truth they never imagined.

The story is told alternately by Harry and Zara, which emphasizes through their differing perspectives just how disconnected and dysfunctional this family has become. The dual timeline between the weeks after Sophie’s disappearance and a year later in the middle of a murder trial provides hindsight, what-if’s and if-only’s. Thought-provoking and exciting.

Thanks to Random House Publishing Group for providing an advance copy of Finding Sophie via NetGalley. I voluntarily leave this review; all opinions are my own.
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GrandmaCootie | 7 altre recensioni | Feb 25, 2024 |

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