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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
I'm having a bad run with one of my favorite easy to read, having a great time with the twists and turns author.😔 Kent's two latest books were slow and boring, not what I come to expect from her at all. I'll read her new one when it comes out this summer, but if that's bad too ....
After Dark follows a girl, Afton, twenty or so years after she was accused of killing her best friend's[and cousin] father. This man was cheating with Afton's mother. The theory is Afton found out about the affair and snapped. Afton has mental health issues and is prone to blackouts and hallucinations. Afton can't remember that fateful night. She likes to believe she wouldn't have been capable of killing someone, but she doesn't know for sure if she did it or not.
We also follow Sydney, the best friend/cousin, as she navigates her friendship with Afton, knowing she may have killed her father. Afton ends up accusing Sydney's husband of an affair. Sydney can't help but wonder what motives Afton could have to lie about something like that.
Then more boring shit happens, and the road to finding out who killed Sydney's father is very slow moving - and who it was is glaringly obvious. I really should not have finished this book, especially since I knew what the ending would be, more or less.
This story was pretty torturous to get through. Things do pick up when we start to question Afton's sanity. That was the highlight of the book, unfortunately. It's just not worth the read.
After Dark follows a girl, Afton, twenty or so years after she was accused of killing her best friend's[and cousin] father. This man was cheating with Afton's mother. The theory is Afton found out about the affair and snapped. Afton has mental health issues and is prone to blackouts and hallucinations. Afton can't remember that fateful night. She likes to believe she wouldn't have been capable of killing someone, but she doesn't know for sure if she did it or not.
We also follow Sydney, the best friend/cousin, as she navigates her friendship with Afton, knowing she may have killed her father. Afton ends up accusing Sydney's husband of an affair. Sydney can't help but wonder what motives Afton could have to lie about something like that.
Then more boring shit happens, and the road to finding out who killed Sydney's father is very slow moving - and who it was is glaringly obvious. I really should not have finished this book, especially since I knew what the ending would be, more or less.
This story was pretty torturous to get through. Things do pick up when we start to question Afton's sanity. That was the highlight of the book, unfortunately. It's just not worth the read.
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4/5 stars!
I can’t believe how much Minka Kent’s books remind me of Frieda McFadden and Jeneva Rose. I have been trying to find similar authors for so long and Minka Kent’s books are so good. But with Minkas I feel like I never seen the twists in her books coming! I feel like this twist in ‘After Dark’ was actually somewhat obvious and the amount of red flags was nuts but I don’t know, I just didn’t see the ending coming.
I love the fast paced, hanging on every word, difficult to put down and crazy plot twist type of books and it did hit some spots but I do think the ending, not the twist, but the ending left me feeling not quite satisfied. I won’t spoil but I felt it ended just abruptly ended and I felt justice needed to happen and it just didn’t. Justice should have happened not just with the law but everyone knowing the truth to. Even though the plot was brilliant I never am a massive fan of mental health playing somewhat of a negative role in thrillers. But honestly apart from the ending and mental health being portrayed a bit negatively these books just scratch an itch for me especially if I feel I’m getting into a bit of a reading slump.
I can’t believe how much Minka Kent’s books remind me of Frieda McFadden and Jeneva Rose. I have been trying to find similar authors for so long and Minka Kent’s books are so good. But with Minkas I feel like I never seen the twists in her books coming! I feel like this twist in ‘After Dark’ was actually somewhat obvious and the amount of red flags was nuts but I don’t know, I just didn’t see the ending coming.
I love the fast paced, hanging on every word, difficult to put down and crazy plot twist type of books and it did hit some spots but I do think the ending, not the twist, but the ending left me feeling not quite satisfied. I won’t spoil but I felt it ended just abruptly ended and I felt justice needed to happen and it just didn’t. Justice should have happened not just with the law but everyone knowing the truth to. Even though the plot was brilliant I never am a massive fan of mental health playing somewhat of a negative role in thrillers. But honestly apart from the ending and mental health being portrayed a bit negatively these books just scratch an itch for me especially if I feel I’m getting into a bit of a reading slump.
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2.5 stars rounded up. Free NetGalley ARC
Afton was accused of killing her best friend, Sydney’s, father, who was also her mother’s lover, 23 years ago. Her hands were holding the bloody knife when her mother found her. Her mother and Sydney’s father were having an affair. The only people in this small town of Shelter Rock that stand by her are Sydney and Sydney’s mother, Cynthia. Strange….. Spoiler : it’s because Sydney is really the one who killed him. And Cynthia covered it up to protect her daughter.
Afton is an unreliable narrator but we, and she, doesn’t know that she’s hallucinating when the reader meets her. She’s living and talking with her Gram and bought a winning lottery ticket. Except Gram died and she didn’t have the winning ticket.
Sydney replaced her meds with something else, which caused the hallucinations. Sydney didn’t want Afton to go to a famous hypnotist because she was scared Afton would uncover the truth. She tries to kill Afton but Cynthia runs in and saves her. But the two gaslight Afton into thinking she wasn’t attacked by Sydney until she finally goes to her appointment months later and figured everything out.
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Afton was accused of killing her best friend, Sydney’s, father, who was also her mother’s lover, 23 years ago. Her hands were holding the bloody knife when her mother found her. Her mother and Sydney’s father were having an affair. The only people in this small town of Shelter Rock that stand by her are Sydney and Sydney’s mother, Cynthia. Strange….. Spoiler : it’s because Sydney is really the one who killed him. And Cynthia covered it up to protect her daughter.
Afton is an unreliable narrator but we, and she, doesn’t know that she’s hallucinating when the reader meets her. She’s living and talking with her Gram and bought a winning lottery ticket. Except Gram died and she didn’t have the winning ticket.
Sydney replaced her meds with something else, which caused the hallucinations. Sydney didn’t want Afton to go to a famous hypnotist because she was scared Afton would uncover the truth. She tries to kill Afton but Cynthia runs in and saves her. But the two gaslight Afton into thinking she wasn’t attacked by Sydney until she finally goes to her appointment months later and figured everything out.
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medium-paced
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
dark
mysterious
tense
mysterious
fast-paced