Here Lies Daniel Tate

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Cristin Terrill

A young, street-savvy runaway looking for a place to call home realizes he might have conned his way into the wrong family in this “unique suspense novel with twists and turns that will keep readers guessing” (School Library Journal) from award-winning author Cristin Terrill.It seems too good to be true when Daniel Tate, missing since he was abducted from one of California’s most elite private enclaves at the age of ten, turns up on a snowy street in Vancouver six years later. At first too traumatized to speak, he is eventually able to tell the authorities who he is and is reunited with his overjoyed family. In time, they tell him, he’ll recover the memories he’s missing; all that matters is that they have him back. It’s perfect. A miracle. Except for one thing: That boy isn’t Daniel Tate. But he wants to be. A young con artist who’s been taking on false identities for years, this impostor has stumbled onto the scam of a lifetime. Daniel has everything he’s ever dreamed of—wealth, privilege, the chance to make a fresh start, and most importantly, a family that loves him. Now that he’s finally found a place to belong, he doesn’t question his luck. Until he realizes that maybe Daniel isn’t missing at all. Maybe someone knows what really happened to the boy he’s pretending to be…and if he can’t uncover the truth—he could be next the next Daniel Tate to disappear.

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Author

Cristin Terrill

Pages

400

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

2017-06-06

ISBN

1481480782 9781481480789

Ratings

Google: 5

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"Everything about this book was A++ I love unreliable narrators because they keep you guessing the whole book and make the story ten times more interesting! Although I guessed some of the big reveals it was still so much fun to read because it means the author gave good clues for the reader to pick up on. And the ending to this book? Phenomenal and confusing which perfectly sums up Here Lies Daniel Tate!"

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Alyssa Czernek

"⭐️⭐️⭐️: it was pretty average, I guessed the ending before I even read it. "

Cat

"This book was a big disappointment for me. Once again i was looking for a thriller and read this book. It is about a con artist that pretends to be a rich kid that disappeared. The book was inspired by something that actually happened. A kid went missing and years later a guy pretended to be him. I’ll start with the things that i liked. I liked the family Dynamic. Everyone is so flawed and feels like a actual person. I liked how they appear as a good family but as you get to know them everybody has there secrets. The unreliable narrator was done pretty well. I was getting worried when i first started the book that it would get annoying but for the most part it was done well. He even tells you that he’s unreliable and he only lies in the beginning and end. Now for the things that i didn’t like Most of the book it doesn’t feel like a thriller. It was just the main character (we don’t get his name) learning and adjusting to Daniel Tates life. Then in the last 200 pages it becomes a mystery. It got annoying that the main character would come up with the conclusion when there is so little evidence and it could of easily been something else. I still am not 100% sure who did it because there was so little evidence and no one confessed. It was just a constant flip this person did it. No this person did it. No it was this person. We got information about a character that we already knew but now it’s this person. We never get the actual story about what happens. Based on who the main character thinks is the murder he just creates his own story about what he thinks happened even though he got little information. The romance was bad. It was simply “boy meets girl. Boy thinks girl is cute”. The main character was too soft to be a con artist. He bonded with the Tate family too quickly. You would expect him not want to bond or get close with people. The story is written to make him sound like a good guy that you should feel bad for. I think that he should of been more gray. I think that we should of learned more about the main character’s life because all we know is that his mom was smoking and apperently life at hone was bad."

Niffty

"I loved it. A fresh read and I liked the mystery"

Brianna

"Literally my favorite book in the entire world "

Ria

"HOLY FCKING SHT!! THIS IS THE BEST BOOK EVER!! I SERIOUSLY THINK EVERYONE WHO IS ABLE TO SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!! IT WAS SO DIFFERENT FROM ANYTHING IVE READ AND ITS DEFINITELY GOING TO BE A LONG TIME UNTIL I FIND A BOOK AS EXHILARATING AS THIS ONE IS. 1000000000/10"