Killer Reads Review | Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

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My review of the April book for the Killer Reads: A Thrill A Month Book Club is Enduring Love by Ian McEwan, as well as the May book announcement.
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The books on the reading list:
January 2022 - ❌The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith*❌
February 2022 - ❌Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn❌
March 2022 - ❌Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara❌
April 2022 - ❌Enduring Love by Ian McEwan❌
May 2022 - 🟢The Shining by Stephen King🟢
June 2022 - The Widow by Fiona Barton
July 2022 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
August 2022 - Strangers by Dean Koontz
September 2022 - Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
October 2022 - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
November 2022 - Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach
December 2022 - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
January 2023 - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
February 2023 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
March 2023 - In the Woods by Tana French
April 2023 - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
May 2023 - The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
June 2023 - The Martian by Andy Weir
July 2023 - The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
August 2023 - Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
September 2023 - A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
October 2023 - Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
November 2023 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
December 2023 - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
January 2024 - The Other Lady Vanishes by Amanda Quick
February 2024 - Orient Express by Graham Greene
March 2024 - Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
April 2024 - Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton
May 2024 - The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani
June 2024 - He Died with His Eyes Open by Derek Raymond
July 2024 - Killing Floor by Lee Child
August 2024 - The Alienist by Caleb Carr
September 2024 - The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
October 2024 - Out by Natsuo Kirino
November 2024 - Tell No One by Harlan Coben
December 2024 - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
January 2025 - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
February 2025 - Basic Black With Pearls by Helen Weinzweig
March 2025 - The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
April 2025 - Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
May 2025 - Girl Missing by Tess Gerritsen
June 2025 - American Tabloid by James Ellroy
July 2025 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
August 2025 - Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
September 2025 - The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
October 2025 - Nineteen Seventy-Four by David Peace
November 2025 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
December 2025 - The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
January 2026 - Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
February 2026 - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
March 2026 - The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
April 2026 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
May 2026 - Jaws by Peter Benchley
June 2026 - Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
July 2026 - Hannibal by Thomas Harris
August 2026 - A Time to Kill by John Grisham
September 2026 - Prior Bad Acts by Tami Hoag
October 2026 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
November 2026 - The Dinner by Herman Koch
December 2026 - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood*
January 2027 - The Secret History by Donna Tartt
February 2027 - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
March 2027 - Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
April 2027 - The Girls by Emma Cline
May 2027 - The Conformist by Alberto Moravia
These two books include more than one book in the series. We will just read the one I listed above from these books.
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[@Shellyish]

At three minutes in, I was thinking, “I MUST read this book.”

[@AJDunnReads]

I wonder what you'd make of it.

[@BookwormAdventureGirl]

This sounds way more complex than I expected. Lots going on. Might have to pick this up. 😊💙

[@AJDunnReads]

With the weirdest antagonist I've read about yet.

[@BernasBookishAdventures]

This book was certainly a page turner and you made excellent points about their views in life 👍🏻 The build up to the end was so good, I felt a bit dissappointed in the end. Other than that, I thought it was a very good thriller and I loved the discussion in the group 😉

[@AJDunnReads]

Yes, I'm making a lot of concessions for it, but it was just so different from anything else, I had to forgive it.

[@rondastothers472]

Always an amazing review from you. I think I may have to put this on a list of mine that you review that I would like to read. I am reading The Becoming, 2nd book in the trilogy Dragon Heart Legacy right now to be ready for the 3rd book in November. It doesn’t take me long to read these as I really enjoy this series.

[@AJDunnReads]

If you read it, let me know what you think. Thanks, Ronda!

[@pdxleo]

Interesting premise for a book - great review - I would totally have said McKellen too :)

[@AJDunnReads]

Best opening ever.

[@SpringboardThought]

Dang does sound completely wild lol also keeping in your mind Joe and Jed explaining everything must have been difficult even listening to it I was like doing mental math. Authors, throw us a bone! Make names different. Lol Excellent review. Does sound fascinating. Is that disease like a real thing?

[@AJDunnReads]

Yes! Here's a link to a description of it: bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-020-02921-5

[@deborajohnson5717]

I have only read one book by this author. I read Nutshell which was very quirky. Great review. Thanks for sharing!

[@AJDunnReads]

You should read _Atonement._

[@CestKevvie]

OMG this book sounds like so much fun!!

[@AJDunnReads]

I think you'd like this one.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

This book sounds so weird and great! I need to read this one. Excellent review!

[@AJDunnReads]

Thanks, Mike! Yes, one of the weirdest stories I think I've read so far.

[@karenwetherald6086]

I think "Unsettling" is the perfect word you used in describing how this book sounds. I think the element of not being believed would be too much for me, I'll stick to your review on this one (great review though)

[@AJDunnReads]

Thanks, Karen. I will say this was a page turner.

[@BooksCauseInsomnia]

Our thoughts on this book are quite identical. Of course. 🤣

[@AJDunnReads]

What a weird story. But I loved it! 😁

[@tomlabooks3263]

Great review. I read this many years ago and it still has the most disturbing beginning of any book I’ve ever read. I remember the novel overall feeling unpleasant and weird - I agree with your definition of uneasy and unsettling. McEwan is a terrific, terrific writer, but to me his work has a coldness and a distance to it.

[@AJDunnReads]

I agree with you.

[@JessBookgirlTV]

Good video. I am glad you liked the book.

[@AJDunnReads]

😁

[@MsReadsAlot]

A lot going on in this short book! I don’t remember it at all even though good reads shows it as read 🤷‍♀️

[@AJDunnReads]

Yes, a lot happens. I'll be curious to see how I remember it as time goes on.

[@EntertheBook]

Yep definitely weird thriller that sounds very creepy. 😬