Blackout, Erin Flanagan
Blackout, Erin Flanagan
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Blackout
A Thriller

Author: Erin Flanagan

Narrator: Vivienne Leheny

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2022

Synopsis

In this unforgettable psychological thriller, the dark is a terrifying mystery for a woman on the edge.Seven hard-won months into her sobriety, sociology professor Maris Heilman has her first blackout. She chalks it up to exhaustion, though she fears that her husband and daughter will suspect she’s drinking again. Whatever their cause, the glitches start becoming more frequent. Sometimes minutes, sometimes longer, but always leaving Maris with the same disorienting question: Where have I been?Then another blackout lands Maris in the ER, where she makes an alarming discovery. A network of women is battling the same inexplicable malady. Is it a bizarre coincidence or something more sinister? What do all the women have in common besides missing time? Or is it who they have in common?In a desperate search for answers, Maris has no idea what’s coming next—just the escalating paranoia that her memories may be beyond her control, and that everything she knows could disappear in the blink of an eye.

About Erin Flanagan

Erin Flanagan is the Edgar Award–nominated author of Deer Season and two short story collections, The Usual Mistakes and It’s Not Going to Kill You and Other Stories. She’s held fellowships to Yaddo, MacDowell, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Ucross, and the Vermont Studio Center. An English professor at Wright State University, Erin lives in Dayton, Ohio, with her husband, daughter, two cats, two dogs, and her friendly, caustic thoughts. For more information, visit www.erinflanagan.net.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy

DNF. Way too woke and/or PC for me, and definitely of a liberal bent. Why can't today's authors just tell a good story without all the "subtle" political pontifications? I don't care about your politics, left or right; I just want an engaging story.......more

Goodreads review by Mary

3.5/5 (rounded up) While I didn't read them prior to starting, I was very curious about the reviews for Blackout by Erin Flanagan. They really ran the gamut in terms of ratings, and it made me think this was one of those love-it-or-hate-it types of books. Well, now that I finished it, I can see how t......more

Goodreads review by Dona

I enjoyed this book way more than I thought I was going to, considering how many issues it has, but I was honestly hooked from about the 30% mark, straight on through to the (terrible!) ending. The biggest problem this book has is that its premise is completely preposterous. I mean the entire premise......more

Goodreads review by Christina

I was pleasantly surprised by this one. I was enticed to listen by the good audible narrator, not expecting a whole lot, and was glad to find out that this was much more than your typical "recovering alcoholic with blackouts" amnesia book. It takes what for me was a pleasant turn into the science fi......more

Quotes

“Flanagan keeps the reader guessing to the surprising climax. She remains a writer to watch.” —Publishers Weekly“Intense and creepy, Blackout is a slow-burn thriller that explores the intersection of cutting-edge technology and the Me Too movement. You won’t be able to put Blackout down until you find out how all the pieces of the puzzle fit together!” —Aggie Blum Thompson, author of I Don’t Forgive You

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