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Mystery Thriller Crime 2003

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

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The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a…

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What it is

A twist at the end that changes everything · properly scary

What happens in it

Twist ending Unreliable narrator Closed setting

How it feels

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How it's told

Who tells it
Third person, up close
Pulls you in with
The plot
Style
Easy to get into

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Is it for you?

It's for you if…

  • you like an ending that makes you rethink everything
  • you enjoy not trusting who's telling it
  • you like a story shut inside one place

Maybe not if…

  • how it's written matters more to you than what happens
  • you read in bed right before sleeping

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Endings that make you reread page one

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Thrillers with twists you'll be the next to spoil

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