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4.5 * Tanya Dubois is running scared after finding her dead husband at the bottom of the stairs. Afraid the police might find it suspicious, Tanya decides to flee. Desperate to escape her past and those that could put her behind bars she travels from State to State with many different aliases. With her funds quickly depleting, Tanya must do whatever it takes to survive and remain underground from those who want her dead. With razor-sharp dialogue, The Passenger is a crackling good story and will...
She was safe for awhile until Frank fell down the stairs, and now she is back on the run disguising herself and stealing identities to maintain her freedom. She's been betrayed before, she knows not to trust anyone, but she's tired and broke when Blue enters her life and gives her a safe place to crash......or so she thinks.After meeting Blue, THE PASSENGER turned into a wild and crazy adventure (for a while) filled with more name changes, (a lot of hair dye), bad guys and complete mayhem with n...
I liked the sound of this one: a woman with a mysterious past keeps changing her identity. Who doesn’t want to read about a woman who carries hair dye and blue contact lenses in her purse? I’m just going to refer to her as “the star,” since she changes names so many times, who knows what to call her.After a while it was same old, same old, ho hum, now she’s blonde and has a new name and a new town, blah blah blah. Some of her adventures are good, others not so much: She has a slightly too-long s...
this is a three-star book but i had a four-star time reading it.it's a really fun fast ride and you get all caught up in the momentum of its zooom and it's only when it's all over and the dust settles that you see the flaws in the vehicle and remember that speeding causes accidents. there's a reason all the blurbs mention breakneck pace and white-knuckle plot and buckling up & etc, because it's escapism done perfectly, and it's a little silly to kick the tires on something that's just fun, so i
*******EDIT*********I've decided to bump this up to 4 stars for the sheer fact that I can't stop thinking about this book. I guess it hit me later than expected!! *********************3.5 STARS. Thank you Netgalley for the pleasure of receiving this novel in exchange for an honest review.Beard of Moses-talk about major whiplash! I wanted to love this book so much. I debated between 3-4 stars and settled in the middle. This is an extremely difficult book to review. At times, I felt it was jumbled...
2 1/2 stars. How long can you string a reader along, suggest that there is some dark secret and surprising denouement to come at the end, but deliver fairly mundane content along the way? That’s the question that hummed away at the back of my mind as I read The Passenger. From the beginning, we know that there is a dark secret in the narrator’s past that has kept her on the run and has had her change her identity. And she keeps running and she keeps changing identities. Every now and then, we ge...
www.melissa413readsalot.blogspot.comWow! This book! When I first started reading this book, I kept wondering why Tanya left to take on a new identity when her husband only fell down the stairs while she was in the shower. But.. as the journey takes off we find out why. Tanya changes her name more than anyone I have ever heard of in the short amount of time that she is on the run. I will tell you some of her names, but I won't reveal her real name :) She's been Tanya, Jane Green, Amelia Keen, Deb...
This was unlike anything I've ever read before. And that's a good thing.This one starts out with a bang, which is always great. "When I found my husband at the bottom of the stairs, I tried to resuscitate him before I ever considered disposing of the body."Needless to say, I was HOOKED. And the story never let up.Our heroine (who may or may not be a heroine) is Tanya Dubois (who may or may not be Tanya). She's living her life constantly on the run ...but WHY?This book is divided into eight secti...
Reviewed by: Hello Beautiful Book Blog Being the passenger on this ride was quite the adventure from start to finish. I stayed up until the wee hours of the night, so let's just say I really liked it. It's going to be hard to review this with no spoilers so this will probably be a shorter review. Also, the main character has so many names throughout this book I'm just going to call her Tanya for the sake of my sanity and to be less spoilery.It was a little all over the place at times, but eve...
This book is like Orphan Black watered down by James Patterson minus the cloning stuff with a hint of any awful 90s teen horror movie (let's go with I Know What You Did Last Summer). Put into five simple words.... It just wasn't very good. The writing was weak, the characters were bland, the plot became repetitive, and the ending was pretty lackluster. It was like the author wrote several short stories and then wanted to weave them together and have things connect perfectly and unrealistically s...
Thrillers are not what I usually pick up, but Lisa Lutz’s The Passenger was a book I enjoyed and raced through in a single day. That’s probably the way thrillers should be read. One reason I may have glommed on so quickly is that the protagonist spends much of the first half of the book in Wyoming. As if Wyoming is the natural place one would go to live under the radar and begin fresh. To try out new identities before moving on. Maybe it is! It’s difficult to say much more about the twists and t...
Well, this turned out better than I thought it would. I'm not sure what to make of the ending. A woman, Tanya Dubois, finds her husband, Frank, dead at the bottom of the stairs. She attempts to resuscitate him; but it soon becomes evident that resurrection isn't in her repertoire. Can't fault her for trying, though. She doesn't know whether he accidentally fell down the stairs or, if someone helped him. All she knows is; she's innocent, and no one will believe her. So instead of alerting the aut...
Looking for a ride? Take your seat on THE PASSENGER. Clear your schedule for the next two days and settle in for a twisted adventure on the run!Our feisty girl, Tanya (not her real name), has just walked in on her dead husband. It seems he took an accidental fall down the stairs. Instead of calling 911, she packs a bag, clears out a bank account and takes off. WHAT A PROMISING PREMISE! I was hooked after that first short chapter. This is an extremely addictive story and I'm so happy to tell you
DNF audiobook at 50%. This was just mediocre. The narration was mediocre and so was the story. Too many books not enough time. I'm becoming old and cranky! Lol
Two things attracted me to The Passenger: Lisa Lutz, the author of the daffy, emotionally complicated and entertaining Spellman Files series ( my review), and the description of “a blistering thriller is about a woman who creates and sheds new identities as she crisscrosses the country to escape her past.” Add in “With heart-stopping escapes and devious deceptions, The Passenger is an amazing psychological thriller about defining yourself while you pursue your path to survival” and I was sold. L...
I try really hard not to read reviews of books before I read them if I know I'm going to read the book anyway because I don't want it to affect how I feel. However, it's hard to ignore that star rating at the tops of pages that let you know not everyone has loved this book. I will tell you this though, I found this book to be brilliantly crafted not just in how the characters are portrayed or how much I enjoyed reading the words on the page, but in how even without knowing all of the story's det...
When her husband falls down the stairs and dies unexpectedly, Tanya DuBois cuts and runs, for she is actually a fugitive living under an assumed name. She switches identities several times but can she ever run from her past?I got this from Netgalley.I love Lisa Lutz's Spellman Files series dearly so I was pretty stoked to pick up her newest. It pains me to say it was a bit of a letdown.The Passenger feels like a Lifetime movie to me. Tanya DuBuois is a woman on the run from a past that is only h...
I received this book through Net Galley and Simon & Shuster. My sincere appreciation to them and to the author, Lisa Lutz. This was my first book by Lisa Lutz and, believe me, I will be back for more.The title and the cover of the book are intriguing. Exactly who is The Passenger? Is it one steady road trip or is the wheel passed back and forth like a game of hit me tag? Or do we, ourselves, experience the role as we're taken on a wild and relentless ride?Our female main character has more names...
Tanya’s husband dies under suspicious circumstances. She says it was an accident, but she goes on the run rather than trying to clear her name. Instead, she travels the country, changing identities, trying to stay one step ahead of the law and the many shadows in her past.That is the simple yet satisfying premise for The Passenger. Tanya is an interesting character, damaged by something that happened in her youth, yet slowly finding her strength. The story moves fast, with threads picked up and
4 solid starsWhat a pleasant surprise this turned out to be! I had seen a few 3 star ratings from some of my Goodreads family about this book, so I took this on with minimal expectations. But right from the first chapter I was completely engaged. I couldn't put this down!Plot-Tanya Pitts husband is dead at the bottom of the stairs. She assumes he fell down them, because she had nothing to do with his death. Instead of calling the police, she packs a bag, grabs what money she can find and takes o...