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The Shape of Night

Tess Gerritsen

Start date: October 1, 2019

Finish date: November 30, 2019

Discussion: Romantic Suspense Novels

Why we're reading this: New Release!
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Oct 29, 2019 Patrice Hoffman rated it liked it

I went back and forth with myself and the rating I wanted to give The Shape of Night by Tess Gerritsen. I have been a fan of Gerritsen's for years. Her Rizzoli and Isles series is quite intriguing and rather different from this title.

The Shape of Night is far and removed from Tess Gerritsen's medical and police procedural mysteries. Ava Collette attempts to escape the tragic past that haunts her in Boston to an idyllic, remote mansion in Maine off the coast where she actually does become haunted ...more

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Dec 29, 2019 Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl rated it liked it

Shelves: arc, winter2020, read-in-2019

A gothic novel of reconciliation with the past. With The Shape of Night, Tess Gerritsen takes a break from medical thrillers and gives us a throwback to her Romantic Suspense Novels. The story is interesting, but in my opinion less refined than the authors recent novels.

Favorite Passages:

Even through multiple layers of paper, the mouse corpses feel sickeningly squishy as I pick them up.
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Like life itself, cooking is about balance . . .
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Curiosity is infectious.
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"Some cultures b ...more

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Nov 23, 2019 Yvonne rated it really liked it

After tragedy strikes her family, author Ava Collette leaves Boston and heads to a small town in Maine. She plans to stay secluded and away from anyone she knows and write her cookbook. She takes up residence in an old house called Brodie’s Watch.

It doesn’t take long for Ava to discover Brodie’s Watch has a past of its own and it’s not a good one. It includes several mysterious deaths and now she discovers a ghost, namely Captain Brodie’s. The captain visits her periodically at night leaving Av ...more

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Feb 24, 2020 Suspense Magazine rated it really liked it

In Boston, a horrific tragedy occurs; an event that causes a woman by the name of Ava Collette to run away and secure herself in a basically unknown village located in Maine. It is there that she will hide . . . leaving the past behind in order to survive.
Unfortunately, although the old house in Brodie’s Watch seems like an isolated location where Ava can feel safe, what it really becomes is yet another location of violence that Ava cannot (or will not) walk away from.
While dwelling inside her ...more

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Feb 02, 2023 Laurie rated it did not like it

Shelves: audio, 2023

Are there 2 Tess Gerritsen's? I will pick up anything by her, she's earned my trust. But after this I will definitely be reading the back of of the book again rather than just diving in. I'm used to her legal/mysteries and this was a paranormal romance. Is that a new genre that I wasn't aware of? The main character moves into an old 18th century sea captains house for the summer to finish her book. She ends of having some quite flavorful sex with his ghost. Yeah, exactly. What the heck!? ...more

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Apr 16, 2020 Cathy rated it really liked it

I love the Writing of Tess Gerritsen and enjoyed this book but not as much as I love her Rizzoli & Isles series. Hoping for another one of those books soon.

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