"Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time". With author Lisa Unger I often find myself with a "glad I read this book" rating. This one being no different. This love accepts quote and a few others from this story has me stopping to see how I feel about that statement. For the record, the love accepts quote I find so very accurate. I enjoyed the storyline taking place in New York and also Prague. I enjoyed the sister relationship between Isabel & Linda. The ending with Isabel sharing her thoughts was quite realistic. I'm pleased Unger ended Die For You in this manner. ( )

Isabel and Marcus Raines are the perfect couple. She is a well known novelist and he is a brilliant inventor of high-tech games. They 19ve been married for five years and still enjoy a loving romance. But one morning, Marcus says he loves her, leaves for work, and disappears into thin air. Isabel keeps trying to reach him but he doesn't return. When his call finally comes, she hears only a man's terrified scream. Isabel races to Marcus's office, trying to find some answers. Instead she finds herself in the middle of an FBI raid, and she is knocked unconscious. When she awakes in a hospital, she learns that everyone Marcus worked with is dead. She returns home to find their apartment ransacked, and the police are there. They urge her to check her bank accounts. All of her money is gone. Then the police discover that Marcus Raines is a dead man. Long dead. Years dead. Isabel will not rest until she finds the truth about the man she loved, who he was, where he 19s gone, and how he was able to deceive her so completely.

This wasn't my favorite book by Lisa Unger. It was interesting but so unbelievable. her characters actions (and infidelities) way too far fetched for the reader to care too much about them. I thought Isabel was unbelievable and as a result I didn't care for the story at all. ( )

At the beginning, very interesting and exciting, with a lot of mystery/intrigue, but then it became very unlikely and completely far fetched. ( )

Isabel Connelly is enjoying life as a bestselling author in a five year marriage to Marcus Raine, believing happy in all circumstances. Marcus leaves one day for his company and doesn’t return that night. As she seeks to find him and whether anything about him is true. ( )

This is my first Lisa Unger book, and definitely my last. I found it extremely annoying in every way, from the prologue, to the end where she jumped around and you had no idea what was going on, to the "news report" that was so ridiculously unprofessional it would never make the air to the multitude of dumb characters that littered this book. I'm not fond of first person writing, and the fact that the protagonist is also an author and at every turn had to remind us of how she sees things that others don't is annoying.

Almost every character is extremely unlikable/selfish/dumb, especially the protagonist. The only likeable characters were the kids and her step-father, Fred. And speaking of kids, how they turned out OK is a miracle, with their mother being a vacuous moron who claims to love her husband and life, but is having an affair. Oh, and she doesn't just "have sex" with the guy, but she "makes love" with him. Everyone in the book "makes love". Sure. Linda & Ben get down & dirty in a coffee shop bathroom, but it's "making love". He threatens her family and kills himself in front of her, and she still has "feelings" for him. What??

Her equally selfish/dumb sister who gets taken for a ride by her homicidal hubby, then beaten up by his girlfriend, and almost killed several times, she still can't stop talking about how much she loves him and then runs after him. To get her money back? No, "to find out why" he did everything he did. What? Ugh, dummy, he did it because he's a homicidal lunatic and you're his mark. Enough said. I almost didn't finish this book, and really I shouldn't have because it was really annoying. I just wanted to see how it ended and if she would die. No loss, there, but I should have read a spoiler rather than endure this drivel. ( )