Synopsis
For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl, a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological thriller about two ordinary women who make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink.
One dark evening on New York City’s Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, especially loneliness and an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect if you kill for me, I’ll kill for you.
In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with her husband, Scott, is invaded. She’s attacked by a man with piercing blue eyes, who disappears into the night. Will she ever be able to feel safe again while the blue-eyed stranger is out there?
Review
This was pretty neat. I don’t read a lot of thrillers so sometimes it’s harder for me to guess what’s going to happen in them than in other genres. This book had a pretty satisfying mixture of WTF moments (I literally said it out loud three times within five chapters at one point), unexpected reveals, and satisfying expected reveals.
The characters were all pretty interesting and I immediately started guessing what might happen to them later on. Sometimes I was right, sometimes I was completely wrong. In a good way though, since I don’t want everything to be super predictable.
It took me a little bit to really get into it at first. The crimes that this book started out with are really sad and fed into my intrusive thoughts in an uncomfortable way. That’s why I could only do a couple of chapters a day at first, which made it hard for me to get fully invested right away. That also fueled my support for the revenge plot though. And once the drama really started to unfold, I was all in. The WTF moments just kept happening and twists were revealed that threw all my theories to the wind so I had to continue as quickly as possible to find out what would happen next.
The ending was pretty satisfying to me overall. I wasn’t sure how all the POVs would converge eventually but once that was revealed, I was so intrigued. I liked how the story ended for each character, though I did wish to have a little more info on one specifically. That one’s development shocked me the most and while I really enjoyed how that POV ended, I also wanted to know more about their motivations.
While I don’t think thrillers will be a super regular addition to my TBR, I do want to have more here and there to shake things up. A fellow reviewer is reading one by this same author right now so I’ll be keeping an eye out for their review!
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