false 5981445 4 "The New York Times" bestselling author of the acclaimed "Island of Lost Girls" and "Promise Not to Tell" returns with a chilling novel in which the secrets of the past come back to haunt a group of friends in terrifying ways. Dismantlement = Freedom Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz banded together in college to form a group they called the Compassionate Dismantlers. Following the first rule of their manifesto--"To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart"--these daring misfits spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin in the Vermont woods committing acts of meaningful vandalism and plotting elaborate, often dangerous, pranks. But everything changes when one particularly twisted experiment ends in Suz's death and the others decide to cover it up. Nearly a decade later, Henry and Tess are living just an hour's drive from the old cabin. Each is desperate to move on from the summer of the Dismantlers, but their guilt isn't ready to let them go. When a victim of their past pranks commits suicide--apparently triggered by a mysterious Dismantler-style postcard--it sets off a chain of eerie events that threatens to engulf Henry, Tess, and their inquisitive nine-year-old daughter, Emma. Is there someone who wants to reveal their secrets? Is it possible that Suz did not really die--or has she somehow found a way back to seek revenge? Full of white-knuckle tension with deeply human characters caught in circumstances beyond their control, Jennifer McMahon's gripping story and spine-tingling plot prove that she is a master at weaving the fear of the supernatural with the stark realities of life. 6154796 1 6 2009 Dismantled: A Novel total:166|5:32|4:61|3:47|2:20|1:6| 166 591 462 74 5 0 false false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 08:37:06 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 09:10:20 -0700 2009
The theme - secrets and their power to destroy - is carried throughout ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 11:53:27 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 11:54:26 -0700 2009
The story is about four college friends who spend the summer in a remote cabin together and form a group called the "compassionate dis...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 09 09:33:41 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 10:11:15 -0700 2009
The book is about a group of four art students who form a group called the Compassionate Dismantlers. Their fearless lea...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 10:24:26 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 11:14:20 -0700 2009
For the Compassionate Dismantlers, this is an absurd question as the two are one and the same. Suz, Tess, Henry and Winnie, all passionate art students, connect at a small college in Vermont, bonding over their mutual interests and talents. ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 12:10:16 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 19:29:20 -0700 2009
This was an excellent book. It started off slow, a character study of a family drifting apart. We know T...more...]]> 5 0 false true Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 11:39:22 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 15:46:03 -0700 2009
The story alternates between the past and present through the memories of Henry, Tess, Emma and Winnie. Each character was unique in his/her own way and was well-structu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 21:39:18 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 21:39:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 08:17:28 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 10:26:02 -0700 2009
It got off to a slow start, taking me a week or two to actually get into a...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 16 06:23:54 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 08:18:44 -0700 2009
This is an integral part of this book's plot, so I'll use it to write my review. I'll start with what I liked.

- The writing: McMahon has an efficient but complete way of setting the scene and creating bel...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 07:20:52 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 14:26:27 -0700 2009
I love how the book shows that mistakes made in college come back to haunt us years later. ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 07:35:50 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 10:40:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 15:24:01 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 17:17:34 -0700 2009 Dismantled is intrinsically flawed. Which is sort of a shame, because it’s a strong concept, with much potential for strong commentary on art, guilt, youth, sexual fluidity. Unfortunately, the novel reads one-dimensionally, as if the characters and plot live only to ser...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 20:09:19 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 11:25:51 -0700 2009 The Secret History. A group of recent art college graduates dub themselves the "Compassionate Dismantlers" and hole up in a remote lakeside cabin, carrying out pranks that ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 03:47:55 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 22:01:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 true false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 17:57:50 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 11:57:37 -0700 2009 One
I think Jennifer McMahon paints an interesting picture, one in which there are so many details you c...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 22:06:13 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 22:07:44 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 05 12:27:49 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 12:36:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 20:50:25 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 20:56:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 14:44:21 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 19:04:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 23 22:38:51 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 23:58:53 -0800 2009 more...]]>