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Anyone recommend a great book with an unexpected twist please?

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TangoShoes · 10/02/2023 19:45

Thanks 😊

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PamDoovesHat · 15/02/2023 18:49

Ursuladevinia82 · 15/02/2023 17:47

That it might explain why the PP made an assumption.

She didn’t realise that the horrifying and scary consequences.

Now this very thread has a twist! 😂

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Yikes the drama of it all! 🤣

OneFrenchEgg · 15/02/2023 18:45

I've reported the original spoiler - it annoyed me at the time as that was one where I was into it and then mum said 'have you found out xxx yet?' Plus I can see others have also not known yet

JaninaDuszejko · 15/02/2023 18:06

Ursuladevinia82 · 15/02/2023 16:03

What makes a “twisty” book good is when you aren’t expecting the twist.

if you follow up a recommendation for a book with a twist, all you will be doing is waiting for the twist!

When I read Daniel Deronda the introduction says 'don't read the introduction until you've read the book first because it'll spoil the denouement'. So I read the book thinking 'could what's just happened be the denouement?' All the way through. Reading it in the 21st century the denouement wasn't quite the shocking reveal it was for the Victorians.

Atonement that twist both annoyed me and then made me annoyed at myself for being annoyed about the twist. Which will make no sense to those who haven't read it.

Ursuladevinia82 · 15/02/2023 17:47

Aposterhasnoname · 15/02/2023 17:35

And?

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That it might explain why the PP made an assumption.

She didn’t realise that the horrifying and scary consequences.

Now this very thread has a twist! 😂

MamaNewtNewt · 15/02/2023 17:46

I didn't say anywhere that you revealed it. I questioned your assertion that it was a well known true story. And then made the point that even if it were well known, that to reveal it at all, but especially on a thread such as this, is a twatty thing to do. I did not said that you did said twatty thing. You can see that this has ruined it for at least one poster who has just bought the book.

Ursuladevinia82 · 15/02/2023 17:43

MamaNewtNewt · 15/02/2023 17:33

Just because you know it doesn't make it well-known 🙄

And regardless it's a really twatty thing to do to reveal a twist, particularly on a thread asking about books with a twist.

I didn’t reveal it

my point was the PP who did “reveal” it probably made an assumption that it was known that based on RL.

Aposterhasnoname · 15/02/2023 17:35

Ursuladevinia82 · 15/02/2023 16:05

But it is a book loosely based on a true story

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And?

MamaNewtNewt · 15/02/2023 17:33

Just because you know it doesn't make it well-known 🙄

And regardless it's a really twatty thing to do to reveal a twist, particularly on a thread asking about books with a twist.

Ursuladevinia82 · 15/02/2023 17:30

MamaNewtNewt · 15/02/2023 17:28

@Ursuladevinia82 But it is a book loosely based on a true story

It's not exactly a well-known true story is it? It's pretty bad to come onto a thread asking for stories with a twist and then to reveal the twist.

I regard it as very well known 🤷‍♀️
But if you don’t then… clearly not! 😂

MamaNewtNewt · 15/02/2023 17:28

@Ursuladevinia82 But it is a book loosely based on a true story

It's not exactly a well-known true story is it? It's pretty bad to come onto a thread asking for stories with a twist and then to reveal the twist.

losingit31 · 15/02/2023 16:13

David Jackson Don't make a sound

notanoxfordcomma · 15/02/2023 16:10

Between you and me by Lisa Hall

Ursuladevinia82 · 15/02/2023 16:05

Aposterhasnoname · 15/02/2023 15:37

Welp, I guess I’ll not bother reading that now I’ve just bought it. Thanks for that.

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But it is a book loosely based on a true story

Ursuladevinia82 · 15/02/2023 16:03

What makes a “twisty” book good is when you aren’t expecting the twist.

if you follow up a recommendation for a book with a twist, all you will be doing is waiting for the twist!

OneFrenchEgg · 15/02/2023 16:02

Welp, I guess I’ll not bother reading that now I’ve just bought it. Thanks for that.

My mum does that ALL the time. If I mention I'm reading something -'oh have you got to the bit with <insert massive spoiler> yet?' Then insists that's not the twist and pretends there's more.

MargotMoon · 15/02/2023 15:58

Fingersmith again!

IBelieveInAThingCalledScience · 15/02/2023 15:57

As PP I'm currently reading Burning Air, by Erin Kelly and also gasped audibly at one of the twists.

Also, it's objectively well written.

Sadlifter · 15/02/2023 15:51

Kissedbyfire1 · 13/02/2023 21:52

Ha, about 5 mins from the end of the Sixth Sense I said to DH -“ Oh!”. He gave me a look and said that he’d figured it out 5 mins from the start and had sat there waiting for me to catch up 🤣.

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Yep, I leant over and said to then dp (now dh!), "he's ". As soon as you see him sitting on the bench

FrancescaContini · 15/02/2023 15:46

AltitudeCheck · 13/02/2023 21:55

I do wish Sarah Waters would write another book! Fingersmith was excellent!

What I loved by Siri HustVedt, it has some beautiful parts (and some tedious parts) but I've never had such a physical, punched in the stomach, feeling as I did reading that.

I also love Sarah Waters!

Haven’t RTFT but Our House by Louise Candlish has a 😮 twist in the final paragraph.

Aposterhasnoname · 15/02/2023 15:37

PamDoovesHat · 11/02/2023 21:38

Is that the one with the chimp? I'd so it was ridiculous 🙄

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Welp, I guess I’ll not bother reading that now I’ve just bought it. Thanks for that.

MyKitchenRules · 15/02/2023 15:32

BigMadAdrian · 14/02/2023 11:21

Sophie's World!

Yes!!!! I shut the book and was like WTF?!?!

MarkWithaC · 15/02/2023 14:55

I agree with Golden Hill by Francis Spufford. It's so good, so original, funny, amazing evocation of early New York. It'd make a terrific film for sure.

I'm not sure what the 'twist' is in Klara and the Sun?

Notmybloodymonkeys · 14/02/2023 11:28

Atethehalloweenchocs · 11/02/2023 22:04

I just read a lovely book called The Reading List which had a few unexpected things happen - really nice read.

I came here to say The Reading List although it absolutely broke me and I couldn’t stop thinking about it for days after I’d finished it.

BigMadAdrian · 14/02/2023 11:21

Sophie's World!

doodlyfiddly · 13/02/2023 22:19

The Dr David Hunter novels, especially the first three (Chemistry of death, Written in bone, Whispers of the dead) by Simon Beckett. If you like tense thrillers, these are amazing! I've read them over & over.