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Thriller
Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively.
Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the ov ...more
Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the ov ...more
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Midnight Jewel (The Glittering Court, #2)
by Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
by Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
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Streets of Glass
by Michelle D. Argyle (Goodreads Author), Diane Dalton
by Michelle D. Argyle (Goodreads Author), Diane Dalton
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Size Zero
by A.C. Moyer (Goodreads Author)
by A.C. Moyer (Goodreads Author)
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The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with fear, if all we have is what lies here, this lonely world, this troubled place, then cold dead stars and empty space...Well, I see no reason to persevere, no reason to laugh or shed a tear, no reason to sleep and none to wake/ No promises to keep and none to make. And so at night I still raise my eyes tos tudy the clear but mysterious skies that arch avove us, cold as stone. Are you there God? Ar
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― Dean Koontz, The Book Of Counted Sorrows
― Dean Koontz, The Book Of Counted Sorrows
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