The Split: The most gripping, twisty thriller of the year (A Richard & Judy Book Club pick)

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For most of its human history, South Georgia lay at the heart of the whaling industry in the southern hemisphere, at one time boasting four active whaling stations that employed over a thousand men. Hundreds of thousands of whales of every species were hunted and slaughtered here, to provide the whale oil demanded by the industrialised countries of the north. It is safe to say that South Georgia is largely responsible for the near extinction of whales in the south Atlantic and, to this day, the populations are proving slow to recover.

If you were able to enjoy this, I'm happy for you. The above review is expressing my personal thoughts towards this book and I am afraid that these were less than favorable. It’s very rare that I laugh at books but this one got me. The relatability this book held was uncanny, I found so many parallels of myself within the main character which made me so much more invested in her story. The dad in this made me fall in love, he was the sweetest and most considerate dad I think I’ve ever read about it in a novel and so many of the things the father and daughter did mirrored parts of my life, once again making me want to read the book more. M. Night Shyamalan's SPLIT added to AFI FEST 2016". AFI Fest. October 28, 2016. Archived from the original on July 21, 2018 . Retrieved November 8, 2016. a b McNary, Dave (April 26, 2017). "M. Night Shyamalan Glass Split Unbreakable sequel". Variety. Archived from the original on April 26, 2017 . Retrieved November 9, 2018.The Split is an astute and involving domestic drama that is perceptive, engrossing and so believable readers will find themselves completely wrapped up in Esther and Lucas’ story. Tense, gripping and with a twist you won't see coming, The Split is an explosive new stand-alone thriller from Sharon Bolton about a woman on the run. I am glad this book exists because I want more books about late 20s queers trying to figure their life out, I just wish I had enjoyed it more. It also just so happens to be absolutely hilarious. Some of the one-liners, particularly Jeremy's, made me snort in a deeply unattractive way. Malcolm is perhaps the greatest cat in literature of all time, and I don't say that lightly, as someone who has read an actually quite embarrassing amount of books just because they mention a cat in the blurb. You can tell this book was written by a cat owner, and I mean that as a the highest compliment. This book has been marketed as something of an adult version of the Georgia Nicholson series by the late and great Louise Rennison, and although I don't think it has quite the same feral, manic energy as that series does, it does share the tendency to make you laugh like a lunatic, and also a fantastic cat. The story flows well, albeit a little slow at the start, which I think is quite intentional as it gives us the opportunity to get to know the characters and to understand the family dynamic, so when things start to heat up, we are already invested in the the minutiae of family life, and the ties, although rather fractured, which attempt to hold the family together.

It’s also a book filled with a very likeable cast. Even when they’re making the aforementioned mistakes, they’re sympathetic. You want them to prevail, you care that they’re making those mistakes, that you can see screwing things up even as they can’t. And what I found great was that the character you might ordinarily consider to be an antagonist, the ex, who unceremoniously ditched Ally after cheating on her for months, comes across as multifaceted too. She isn’t presented as awful and that’s it. She has her reasons, she felt the breakdown of their relationship as much as Ally did.I enjoyed and got on well with the characters, no they are not perfect but who doesn’t love a flawed person and by the end of it I felt I had built a friendship with them all, sounds far fetched?, it really isen’t, such is the authors way of telling the story and involving you in it Just outside Philadelphia, Dennis kidnaps three girls — Claire, Casey and Marcia — when they are waiting in the car of Claire's father to get driven home from a birthday party. He imprisons the girls in a secret underground lair beneath the Philadelphia Zoo, where they meet Patricia, who protects the girls from Dennis to save them for "The Beast", and a 9-year-old boy alter named "Hedwig", revealed to be the true dominant alter, whom Patricia and Dennis are manipulating to shut out the other alters. The girls try to escape by going through the vents, manipulating Kevin's alters, and communicating with another individual via a walkie-talkie, but all of their attempts end in failure. Jaafar, Ali (October 2, 2015). "James McAvoy in talks to replace Joaquin Phoenix in M. Night Shyamalan's new film". Deadline.com. Archived from the original on December 3, 2015 . Retrieved December 8, 2015. Ramos, Dino-Ray (August 13, 2017). "Teen Choice Awards 2017 Winners: 'Wonder Woman', 'Beauty and the Beast', 'Riverdale' Among Honorees". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media, LLC. Archived from the original on August 14, 2017 . Retrieved August 14, 2017. So while the plot isn’t exactly original (it could just as easily have been called Getting Over Emily), it’s told so engagingly and the characters are just so adorable that it really doesn’t matter.

Lane, Anthony (January 22, 2017). "A Piercing Moral Debate in "The Salesman" ". The New Yorker . Retrieved August 15, 2021. Split (2017)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Archived from the original on October 11, 2016 . Retrieved May 28, 2021.Felicity Lloyd, a young scientist, has accepted a research assignment on one of the most remote places on earth – the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. She thinks there, at last, she’ll be safe from her estranged husband, Freddie. He’s recently been released from prison and he’ll stop at nothing to find her.