Ill Will Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Dan Chaon
SCORE
3.5
TOTAL RATINGS
237

Ill Will by Dan Chaon Book Summary

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two sensational unsolved crimes—one in the past, another in the present—are linked by one man’s memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon.

Includes an exclusive conversation between Dan Chaon and Lynda Barry

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Wall Street Journal • NPR • The New York Times • Los Angeles Times • The Washington Post • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly

“We are always telling a story to ourselves, about ourselves.” This is one of the little mantras Dustin Tillman likes to share with his patients, and it’s meant to be reassuring. But what if that story is a lie?

A psychologist in suburban Cleveland, Dustin is drifting through his forties when he hears the news: His adopted brother, Rusty, is being released from prison. Thirty years ago, Rusty received a life sentence for the massacre of Dustin’s parents, aunt, and uncle. The trial came to epitomize the 1980s hysteria over Satanic cults; despite the lack of physical evidence, the jury believed the outlandish accusations Dustin and his cousin made against Rusty. Now, after DNA analysis has overturned the conviction, Dustin braces for a reckoning.

Meanwhile, one of Dustin’s patients has been plying him with stories of the drowning deaths of a string of drunk college boys. At first Dustin dismisses his patient's suggestions that a serial killer is at work as paranoid thinking, but as the two embark on an amateur investigation, Dustin starts to believe that there’s more to the deaths than coincidence. Soon he becomes obsessed, crossing all professional boundaries—and putting his own family in harm’s way.

From one of today’s most renowned practitioners of literary suspense, Ill Will is an intimate thriller about the failures of memory and the perils of self-deception. In Dan Chaon’s nimble, chilling prose, the past looms over the present, turning each into a haunted place.

“In his haunting, strikingly original new novel, [Dan] Chaon takes formidable risks, dismantling his timeline like a film editor.”—The New York Times Book Review

“The scariest novel of the year . . . ingenious . . . Chaon’s novel walks along a garrote stretched taut between Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock.”—The Washington Post

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Book Name Ill Will
Genre Literary
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 5.5 MB

Ill Will (Dan Chaon) Book Reviews 2024

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Not worth the price. Could only get thru 80 pages before giving up. Very disappointing and disjointed. Sorry I wasted money on this.

Tense, taut. Does Chaon's fragmented text take a little patience? Yes. Is it worthwhile? Yes. This is a very tense and tight book, and its writer knows exactly what he's doing. Painting rich characters, playing with perspective, building a plot that doesn't reveal itself in a straightforward way... I thought it was a phenomenal book.

Terrible ebook formatting. The book is ok but the formatting to ebook is absolutely horrible. Words run off the screen and are chopped at the bottom, and when he puts text side by side in columns it's almost impossible to read in ebook form. I typically read on the treadmill and this is NOT the book for that. Buy a paperback version, forgo the ebook.

Riveting. This story was difficult to put down. There are a number of twists and turns that led be down different paths as I read. The story is mostly tragic. The mental Manipulation was well traveled. It is a book worth h reading if you want to go down a sad rabbit hole.

Kept reading, hoping it would get better.. It doesn’t. Don’t waste your time. No real story or ending. Just randomness all together. Ugh.

Annoying!!!. Actually a fairly interesting story. But I HATE the gimmick the writer uses of breaking story into side by side by side. Makes it uneven to follow by becoming disjointed. Hard to explain. But I won't buy any more of his books because of this.

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Summary of Ill Will by Dan Chaon

The Ill Will book written by Dan Chaon was published on 07 March 2017, Tuesday in the Literary category. A total of 237 readers of the book gave the book 3.5 points out of 5.

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