OverDrive מעוניין להשתמש בעוגיות כדי לשמור מידע על המחשב שלך, בכדי לשפר את חוויית המשתמש שלך באתר שלנו. אחת מהעוגיות בהן אנחנו משתמשים היא הכרחית לתפעולם של היבטים מסוימים של האתר וכבר הותקנה. את/ה יכול/ה למחוק ולחסום את כל העוגיות מאתר זה, אבל זה עלול להשפיע על תכונות או שירותים מסוימים של האתר. כדי ללמוד עוד על העוגיות בהן אנחנו משתמשים ועל איך מוחקים אותן, ליחץ/י כאן כדי לראות את מגיניות הפרטיות שלנו.
"Fast-paced, nail-bitingly tense and packed full of twists and turns. I found it unputdownable – loved it!"—Sarah Pearse, author of The Sanatorium Point Break meets And Then There Were None in a pulse-pounding beach read that explores the dangerous ties between a group of elite surfers who are determined to find the perfect waves at any cost…even murder. The waves are to die for.
Three years ago, passionate surfer Kenna Ward lost her two great loves—after her boyfriend drowned, she hung up her surfboard and swore off the water for good. But she is drawn back to the beach when her best friend, Mikki, announces her sudden engagement to a man Kenna has never met—a member of a tight-knit group of surfers. Kenna travels to a remote Australian beach, entering a dangerous world far from civilization where the waves, weather, and tides are all that matter. Kenna is tempted back into the surf, and drawn into the dazzling group and the beach they call their own. But this coastal paradise has a dark side, and members of the group begin to go missing. Kenna realizes that in order to protect Mikki and learn more about the surfers, she must become one of them…without becoming one of their victims. What follows is an adrenaline-fueled thriller packed with twists and turns, exploring the dangerous edge between passion and obsession.
"Fast-paced, nail-bitingly tense and packed full of twists and turns. I found it unputdownable – loved it!"—Sarah Pearse, author of The Sanatorium Point Break meets And Then There Were None in a pulse-pounding beach read that explores the dangerous ties between a group of elite surfers who are determined to find the perfect waves at any cost…even murder. The waves are to die for.
Three years ago, passionate surfer Kenna Ward lost her two great loves—after her boyfriend drowned, she hung up her surfboard and swore off the water for good. But she is drawn back to the beach when her best friend, Mikki, announces her sudden engagement to a man Kenna has never met—a member of a tight-knit group of surfers. Kenna travels to a remote Australian beach, entering a dangerous world far from civilization where the waves, weather, and tides are all that matter. Kenna is tempted back into the surf, and drawn into the dazzling group and the beach they call their own. But this coastal paradise has a dark side, and members of the group begin to go missing. Kenna realizes that in order to protect Mikki and learn more about the surfers, she must become one of them…without becoming one of their victims. What follows is an adrenaline-fueled thriller packed with twists and turns, exploring the dangerous edge between passion and obsession.
בשל מגבלות הוצאה לאור, הספר הזה בפורמט קינדל לא יכול להיות מועבר באופן אלחוטי ויש להורידו ולהעבירו באמצעות USB.
עקב הגבלות המוציא לאור הספריה אינה יכולה לרכוש עותקים נוספים של הכותר, אנו מתנצלים אם יש רשימת המתנה ארוכה. וודא שבדקת עותקים אחרים, מכיוון שיכולות להיות מהדורות אחרות זמינות.
מובאות-
From the cover1. KENNA
Hey, you!" A blonde woman holds a flyer in my direction. "Take one please!"
A slight accent: Dutch or Swedish or something.
I blink, dazzled by the sunlight after the shade of the train station. Why is it so bright? It feels like the middle of the night.
"Best Thai food!" shouts a young man.
"Looking for a room?" calls a girl with multiple facial piercings.
The touts stand there, holding their ground-or trying to-in the stream of people flooding from the station. Sydney may be on the other side of the world, but so far, arriving here is little different to arriving in London or Paris.
My heavy backpack makes me unsteady on my feet. The Thai restaurant guy tries to give me a flyer, but I have my travel card in one hand and my daypack in the other so I shrug in apology and step around him.
"Happy hour!" shouts another voice. "Six-dollar schooners."
As I'm wondering what a schooner could be, a hand grips my wrist. The Dutch woman. She's fiftyish with dark blonde hair and clear blue eyes. Pretty, or she would be if her face wasn't taut and unsmiling. I want to pull free and walk on-ignore her like everyone else-but the desperation in her eyes stops me. I glance at her flyers.
Missing! Elke Hartmann, German national.
The photo shows a smiling blonde girl clutching a surfboard.
"My daughter." The woman's voice is raw.
Not Dutch then. I'm hopeless with accents. The tide of people divide and merge around us as I skim the flyer. Elke is twenty-nine-a year younger than me-and she's been missing for six months. I offer a tight smile of sympathy. I hope the bus stop isn't far because this backpack weighs a ton.
A briefcase bashes my calf. I spot the clock on the wall. Half past five: the evening rush hour. The realization makes my brain hurt. I can never sleep on planes. I've been awake for two whole days.
"Have you ever lost someone you love?" the woman asks.
I turn back to her. Because I have. Lost someone.
"She was backpacking here." The woman nods at my bags. "Like you."
I'm not backpacking, I want to tell her, but she doesn't give me a chance.
"They're in a foreign country and they don't know anyone. If they disappear, it's days before anyone notices. They're easy targets."
With the final word, her voice cracks. She lowers her head, shoulders shaking. I drape my arms awkwardly around her. My palms are damp; I don't want to ruin her blouse. I need to get going, but I haven't got the heart to leave her like this. Should I take her somewhere-buy her a cup of tea? But I want to get to Mikki's place before it gets dark. I'll give her a minute and hope she cries herself out.
Office workers file past. The women seem better groomed than their British counterparts: all glossy hair and tanned legs in heels and short skirts. The men wear their shirts with the sleeves rolled up and top two buttons undone, suit jackets slung over their shoulders, ties nowhere in sight.
Sweat pools under my armpits. This sticky humidity, Mikki always moaned about it: Nearly as bad as Japan. It's March, the Australian autumn, and I hadn't expected it to be this hot.
I watch the touts handing out flyers. The Thai restaurant guy offers a flyer to anyone who'll take one, but the others seem to be targeting backpackers. With their oversized backpacks and milk-white or sunburnt limbs, they stand out a mile. Easy targets.
Elke's mother sniffs. "Sorry." She hunts through her handbag and pulls out tissues.
"No problem," I say. "Are you okay?"
She dabs her eyes, sheepish now. "I let you go. But you be careful,...
על המחבר-
Allie Reynolds is the author of Shiver. Born in Britain, Reynolds is a former freestyle snowboarder who swapped her snowboard for a surfboard and moved to the Gold Coast in Australia, where she taught English as a foreign language for fifteen years. She still lives in Australia with her family. Reynolds's short fiction has been published in women's magazines in the UK, Australia, Sweden, and South Africa.
ביקורות-
July 4, 2022 Kenna, the principal narrator of this disappointing thriller from Reynolds (Shiver), has traveled from her native U.K. to Sydney, Australia, to surprise her estranged best friend, Mikki, who’s about to get married. Though Mikki doesn’t welcome Kenna’s arrival, she invites Kenna to join her and her fiancé, Jack, on a pre-wedding surfing trip to a remote beach on Sorrow Bay. The two friends were passionate surfers until Kenna’s boyfriend drowned while visiting a Cornish beach with her. The traumatized Kenna’s ceasing to participate in the sport marked the start of their estrangement. Kenna’s hopes to reconnect with Mikki are threatened, though, by her misgivings about Jack and the Tribe, the community the couple belong to at the bay, whose members resent that Kenna, an outsider, now knows their secret surfing spot. Kenna begins to fear that darker secrets, possibly connected to a number of missing people, are behind the antagonism, a suspicion strengthened when Tribe members turn up dead. The early disclosure of a key reveal undercuts the tension, and genuine surprises and plausible characters are in short supply. This misfire won’t win Reynolds any new fans. Agent: Kate Burke, Blake Friedmann Literary (U.K.).
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