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    Tangerine
    Tangerine
    Tangerine
    Audiobook9 hours

    Tangerine

    Written by Christine Mangan

    Narrated by Barrie Kreinik and Erin Mallon

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the accident at Bennington, the two friends—once inseparable roommates—haven’t spoken in over a year. But there Lucy was, trying to make things right and return to their old rhythms. Perhaps Alice should be happy. She has not adjusted to life in Morocco, too afraid to venture out into the bustling medinas and oppressive heat. Lucy—always fearless and independent—helps Alice emerge from her flat and explore the country. 

    But soon a familiar feeling starts to overtake Alice—she feels controlled and stifled by Lucy at every turn. Then Alice’s husband, John, goes missing, and Alice starts to question everything around her: her relationship with her enigmatic friend, her decision to ever come to Tangier, and her very own state of mind.

    Tangerine is a sharp dagger of an audiobook—a debut so tightly wound, so replete with exotic imagery and charm, so full of precise details and extraordinary craftsmanship, it will leave you absolutely breathless.

    Optioned for film by George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures, with Scarlett Johansson to star.

    Editor's Note

    Escapist reads…

    This is a juicy novel, and that’s not just a pun about its title. A cinematic debut (it’s already been optioned), “Tangerine” is a Hitchcockian tale of obsession in the seductive chaos of midcentury Morocco.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMar 27, 2018
    ISBN9780062797988
    Tangerine
    Author

    Christine Mangan

    Christine Mangan has her PhD in English from University College Dublin, where her thesis focused on 18th-century Gothic literature, and an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Southern Maine.  Tangerine is her first novel.

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    • 3/5
      "I knew her, Alice, better than she knew herself, could anticipate every action and reaction before they had ever occurred to her. I sunk to the floor, my fingers grasping the Berber carpet beneath me, my nails turning white against the pressure as I clutched at its frayed edges." Alice and her husband John have moved to Tangier soon after their marriage. Alice has a history of mental instability and she has a difficult time adjusting to Tangier and rarely leaves their apartment. Alice is troubled by several past events including the deaths of her parents and a mysterious tragedy that occurred while Alice was a student at Bennington. Lucy, Alice's former college roommate, makes a surprise visit to Tangier. Their separation over a year ago was somehow related to that mysterious tragedy.The plot of this book was quite predictable, but the book did hold my interest. My major problem was with the lack of pacing. The writing is seriously overwrought from the beginning, so there is no build up of tension. Both women are in full tilt drama queen mode throughout. I've seen this book compared to "The Talented Mister Ripley" but that's really an insult to Patricia Highsmith. This will be made into a movie, of course, but my favorite part of the book was the cover.

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    • 2/5
      I really didn't care for this one. I admit that I started skimming more than halfway through and didn't really care what happened. And I think the narrator on this did not enhance my enjoyment of the story. In fact, this is one of those rare times when the audio narration negatively affected my experience.
    • 4/5
      I checked out a copy of this book from the local library to read with @saltwaterreads. All opinions are my own. ☄Tangerine by Christine Mangan. ???? Alice has moved forward with her life, married, learned to survive on her own until..........one day an old college room mate shows up out of no where. Unwanted and unsettling are the least of Alice's worries once Lucy enters her life. Alice's past is full of loss and devastation and effects her whole life and lands her in a world of trouble she was so naive to not see coming. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Go Read, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Amazon, Twitter @jason_stacie and my blog at readsbystacie.com
    • 5/5
      Keeps you on your toes
      From the beginning to end- great !
    • 2/5
      I found myself thinking hurry up already, get to the point. The characters are shallow, the plot is contrived. The author tries to be clever by withholding information only to leave the reader disappointed when it’s finally revealed. The ending was easily predictable and quite a let down.
    • 2/5
      Narrator was great! However, I thought the story was over the top dramatic and extremely predictable.
    • 1/5
      It’s an interesting idea but badly written. The author does follow the adage to show, don’t tell.
    • 1/5
      I didn't enjoy this book. I liked Nothing, a complete waste of time.
      My rating would be 0 stars.
    • 1/5
      Holy shit that was terrible on so many levels. Seriously. Complete crap. Flat characters, an insane amount of gaslighting, and my bullshit meter exploded. I wouldn't have finished it at all except it was my suggestion for the upcoming Cocktail Hour show and I subjected two of my friends to it so I felt it was my duty. Ugh. At least we'll have fun talking about it. So there's that...

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    • 5/5
      ‘Tangerine’ by Christine Mangan is a story full of twists and thrills at every turn, somewhat similar to ‘Gone girl’ that I thoroughly enjoyed. If there is one thing it could have done better with, it is the characterisations of the protagonists and the city that is the site of all the action, Tangier. It did largely satisfy my need for a page turner that allowed me to finish the book within a week. The Hitchcockian plot would serve well in a film format and the buzz for an upcoming movie based on the book- to be produced by George Clooney and to star Scarlett Johansson- is already gaining momentum. I do look forward to it as it would do well to follow in the footsteps of ‘Gone girl’ in that respect.
    • 3/5
      Moderately entertaining story. Well paced. Appealing local color. Improbable characters. Important unexplained plot devices and marvelous coincidences.
    • 1/5
      Such a boring book, really... Unfortunately it's hard to find a gd book here
    • 1/5
      The plot is interesting but the execution is poor. This novel is haphazardly written with all-around unlikable characters. The pace is slow to the point of distraction with overly wordy inner-monologuess thrown into the midst of coversations. And never in my life have I heard the word 'frown' used with such frequency. The narrators were the only redeeming thing about this novel.
    • 4/5
      A psychological thriller taking place in an exotic and mysterious location .Unfortunately, stupid and ignorant people abound making it frustrating for the reader. If you enjoy screaming at characters, you'll be doing it often with this one. Still, I liked it.
    • 5/5
      Excellent read - very much like Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley) combined with Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca. Not understanding Joyce Carol Oates' comparison to Gillian Flynn or to Donna Tartt (other than the location in Vermont). Also - why yellow and not orange/tangerine for the cover art? Yes, I'm a really opinionated reader.
    • 5/5
      Christine Mangan's first novel is a stunning feat of multiple narrators weaving a story so convoluted and deceptive that I often felt like I was caught in a spider's web. A large spider's web. Lucy Mason and Alice Shipley are two women inextricably bound together, first at a college in Vermont, then in Tangier, an exotic locale that thrills one and dismays the other. Alice is a damaged character, seemingly weak and always under the thumb of someone: her aunt, her husband John, Lucy. And then there is Lucy, or should I call her The Talented Miss Mason, a nod to Patricia Highsmith's Ripley. She would do anything for Alice, absolutely anything. They bond at college, but then Lucy becomes murderously jealous of Alice's boyfriend Tom. When Tom dies in a car accident, Alice leaves Bennington and Lucy behind. Years later, Lucy tracks Alice down in Tangier, where she lives with her unfaithful husband John. Mangan is skillful in feeding the reader just enough information to whet the appetite until the end, where the finish is not as much satisfying as it is sound, reasonable and yet horrifying. She deftly creates two very different but tethered personalities in Lucy and Alice, to the point where I want to shake the other, well-drawn characters, and scream at them: "Can't you see what is happening?!" Two first-person narrators is not easy to pull off, but any other rendering of the story would have been less thrilling. There's nothing like being in the head of a sociopath or in one of someone being driven crazy.Mangan's rendering of volatile Tangier in particular, but also of the other places in the novel (wintry Vermont, sunny Spain), is vivid, so well-drawn that I was inclined to brush hot dust off my clothes after reading a few chapters. The places, again, particularly Tangier, become characters in this story, or at least, observers. She fixes the story in the 1950s, a time long before cell phones and other technological advances that would have unraveled this story too soon. If you enjoy psychological thrillers with a slow burn, then read Tangerine.
    • 3/5
      It's annoying when nothing really happens for the first 70% of a book. I was eager to dive into this one but I was quite disappointed. I would have thought that gaslighting a vulnerable female was a trope that has been done to death. To quote Amadeus, this novel had "too many notes".
    • 3/5
      Someone raved about this one and I was excited to start it. I'm still over the potentially unreliable character thing so this was just alright for me. A bit twisting and a bit predictable.
    • 3/5
      I wasn’t expecting this plot line. I thought it would just be a more generic expat story and what attracted me was its setting – Morocco. Instead it has echoes of The Talented Mr Ripley, an obsessive friendship told in alternating viewpoints. Dark and twisted, this book was a bit uneven and I wish the women were more distinguishable and the Morocco setting utilized more. Still, a decent read. .
    • 3/5
      Tough to get into this one. I just couldn’t relate and kept confusing the two female characters. Maybe it was just me and my current mindset, or maybe that was the whole intention, as I am thoroughly confused as to who is who at the end now!
    • 2/5
      So much promise...not quite right...did not compare to the beauty of the cover or the descriptions of Tangiers. Disappointing
    • 3/5
      TANGERINE has been compared to an Alfred Hitchcock movie, and I guess you could say that throughout most of the book. The last few chapters, however, spoil that likeness. Alice has been living of late with her husband in Morocco, Tangier, specifically. She is English and isn’t comfortable there, to say the least. Throughout the book the reader will learn in flashbacks how she has come to be so unhappy.One day, her old college roommate, Lucy, an American, arrives unannounced at Alice’s door. Through the flashbacks we learn more and more about Lucy and why she has come to Tangier.I have to be careful about divulging too much about the flashbacks because learning about these characters little by little adds to the anticipation and is how, I’m sure, the book is meant to be read. But suffice it to say that the reader will come to understand the evil of one and the complete naïveté (or, as some may come to feel, stupidity) of the other.The last few chapters of TANGERINE are difficult to read. So much is left unsaid that the reader just may feel like throwing the book across the room. Maybe a sequel is coming to explain all the loose ends.
    • 4/5
      Well crafted dual narrative, with the voices of the two main characters-Lucy & Alice- alternating, and a sultry, foreboding atmosphere (Tangier, Morocco, 1956) and a shift back & forth, from the present to the past. Joyce Carol Oates comment describes it perfectly: "As if Donna Tartt, Gillian Flynn, and Patricia Highsmith had collaborated on a screenplay to be filmed by Hitchcock--suspenseful and atmospheric" (back flyleaf). A twisty psychological tale that slowly unravels, revealing only a clue here or there, but as the intentions of each character become clearer, the pace quickens and we readers are hit at the end with a triumph of Machiavellian proportions for one of the two women. This is her first novel? Wow.
    • 5/5
      What a read! Alice Shipley returns to England following a traumatic event at her Vermont college. She impulsively marries and follows her husband to Tangier. She is visited by her college roommate Lucy and that’s when the gun starts. Slowly but surely things begin to happen that make Alice question her sanity. When Alice’s aunt Maude falls under Lucy’s spell, Alice realizes all hope is lost.this is deliciously creepy and creepily delicious
    • 4/5
      The back story and build up felt laborious, but when I got to the end it felt like it was needed to build up the tension. However, it made the book feel slow moving me to me. I also felt like certain parts needed more information - they weren't "fleshed" out enough. I found the book heartbreaking.
    • 2/5
      Could have been a great story, but found it very repetitive and characters flimsy. I struggled to the end, but found it disappointing - perhaps it will make a better film.
    • 4/5
      Got a very strong Daphne DuMaurier vibe from this one! The discomfort and tension build slowly throughout, with some fascinating and creepy instances of gaslighting. I enjoyed the narration switching back and forth between villain and victim, with the same scene sometimes being told from different perspectives. I was disappointed though that the ending was given away at the beginning of the book, and even without that it would have been very predictable.
    • 2/5
      As so often, (when will I ever learn?) I was lured by the plaudits strewn all over the cover of this book that promised so much. Sadly, I wonder whether those critics had read the same book as me. It wasn’t even slightly ‘unputdownable’. I just wish I had put it down immediately after picking it up in Daunt Books last week.On a side note, I was intrigued at how many of the critics quoted cited similarities to the works of Patricia Highsmith – I think there were seven mentions of her name in the encomia on the edition I read. Did all these critics identify this apparent similarity entirely independently, or was this a case of someone sticking their neck out with a reference to her, and all the others deciding that it sounded good and thinking they could join in too? Sadly, whatever the reason behind all the references to Highsmith, I should have paid more heed, as I have never enjoyed any of her books either.
    • 4/5
      Tangerine is a tightly woven thriller of obsession and deception.

      Alice Shipley and Lucy Mason are college roommates at Bennington College in the mid-1950s. Alice's parents have died in a terrible accident, and Alice's guardian, Aunt Maude, handles her trust fund.
      Lucy's parents have also died, but Lucy comes from a very poor background.

      Alice and Lucy meet at college and become fast friends, doing everything together. Then, something terrible happens. Fast forward several months, now Alice is living with her husband John in Tangiers. Lucy comes to visit them.

      Terrible things begin to happen. Promises that were made during college are broken. Memories surface and the horror of knowing what truly happened takes over. Obsession, madness, and cunning deceit are all part of this debut novel.

      #Tangerine #ChristineMangan
    • 4/5
      In the spirit of Daphne DuMarier's Rebecca and the movie Gasligtht comes this novel of obsession, deceit and suspense. Set in the 1950's, featuring two women who were roommates at Bennington College a matriculation that did not end well. The backstory:Alice is a young woman, raised in Britain and orphaned by a housefire, attends Bennington, the alma mater of her deceased American mother. Lucy is her roommate. They become quite close in an asymmetrical relationshop where Alice reveals all and Lucy reveals very little.Fast forward to the beginning of the novel, where Alice has married, moved to Tangiers and Lucy shows up on her doorstep unannounced. From there a story of suspense and intrigue unfolds.