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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
I listened to this one on audiobook and it was a fast paced thriller that I got through very quickly. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Grace Blades is a dedicated psychologist but she has a secret life her patients doesn't know about. Damaged by a horrible past after seeing her parents dead in a murder-suicide she unwinds in a peculiar fashion and when one of her patients discovers her secret it puts her whole world at risk. The only person who knows her secret ends up dead and Grace is being followed. Only after looking into her past and the connection she had to this patient will she realize what risk she's in and how to be safe again. ⠀3.5⭐️’s
It wasn't really for me. I'm not a big fan of stories where someone decides to play amateur detective when the cops are also working on the case. It was an interesting idea, but I also felt like the idea of a "murderer's daughter" was played up a bit....the actual murder in this case was not really what I was expecting it to be.
This is told in alternating timelines. It switches between the present time where Grace is trying to find out who killed a patient of hers. And then it flashes back to her growing up, dealing with a pretty terrible childhood, and how she got to where she is. The flashbacks were kind of interesting. The murder mystery aspect felt slow and plodding. And then ended rather abruptly, in a way that gives the impression that the author didn't know how to finish it.
There was a moment where I thought it was going to have some CRAZY twist,when she makes the connection about how two of the people's she's looking for had their adopted parents killed in an accident. Then it's revealed that the EXACT same thing happened to Grace, and maybe somehow she was more tied into this crazy family. But no, that just petered out
There were also several threads that were pulled at but never resolved. So if you think about it too much, it ends up just getting confusing and less believable. And the characters' names changed way too many times to really follow clearly who was who and how they were connected.
Anyway, not a favorite. There are better psychological thrillers out there.
This is told in alternating timelines. It switches between the present time where Grace is trying to find out who killed a patient of hers. And then it flashes back to her growing up, dealing with a pretty terrible childhood, and how she got to where she is. The flashbacks were kind of interesting. The murder mystery aspect felt slow and plodding. And then ended rather abruptly, in a way that gives the impression that the author didn't know how to finish it.
There was a moment where I thought it was going to have some CRAZY twist,
There were also several threads that were pulled at but never resolved. So if you think about it too much, it ends up just getting confusing and less believable. And the characters' names changed way too many times to really follow clearly who was who and how they were connected.
Anyway, not a favorite. There are better psychological thrillers out there.
Grace Blades is a psychologist who knows just what her troubled clients have been through. Kellerman does a great job of showing Blades' backstory through frequent flashbacks. The story builds and builds and the layers keep adding to the depth of the story. The characters are very well-developed and drive the plot.
Um. This main character is a sociopath, I guess. Also, some very weird stuff happens at the end and I felt like that was super out-of-place.
I received a copy of this title from NetGalley. It does not impact my review.
This book made about zero sense to me. I'm a bit flummoxed about how to even review it.
The story started out really slow for me. It took a good 200 pages or so to really get into it. Honestly, if it wasn't an ARC, I probably would have stopped reading. Grace, the main character, was not exactly likable. I didn't hate her, but I was kind of ambivalent towards her, even her tragic background didn't really make her a sympathetic character for me. She's a psychologist, but she has her own brand of crazy. Her desire for adrenaline and anonymous sexual encounters is not really ever explained and just made her more unlikable to me.
After one of these encounters, Grace has a new patient and it turns out to be the man from the night before. Even though she can't treat him because of what happened (because apparently she's ethical now), she still tries to talk to him about why he sought her out to begin with. He acts really nervous and leaves before really telling her anything. Not soon after, she's contacted by a detective when her business card is found on a murdered John Doe.
Grace is afraid this makes her a person of interest. She lies about her chance encounter with him the night before he came to her office and then decides to launch her own investigation into who this guy really was. And here the real crazy begins. Grace become some kind of Jason Bourne type, acting as a skilled stalker, investigator, spy, assassin, etc. She makes wild conjectures with very little information and no proof that all end up being right. The murder victim obviously has a link to Grace's past, but honestly the link is pretty weak.
Every few chapters is told in an alternate timeline with Grace's past. I generally love multiple timelines, but it took me a long time to get into it here. Despite the in depth history, I just didn't feel like the character was well-developed. She was an unrelatable and pretty unrealistic character. The supporting characters weren't much more than that and with the exception of Malcolm, the man who ended up taking Grace in, none of them really stand out.
Eventually, the story did pick up for me. The backstory chapters were more compelling and Grace ended up getting some real leads. However, the end just wasn't satisfying or very believable.
Overall, I was not a fan of The Murderer's Daughter. The writing style didn't really click with me for a big portion of the book and the main character was pretty unlikable. The plot was not very believable and it annoyed me that Grace just made up a dozen wild theories and they all ended up being right. I'm sure there are people who will probably enjoy this book, but I wasn't one of them.
Overall Rating (out of 5): 2 Stars
This book made about zero sense to me. I'm a bit flummoxed about how to even review it.
The story started out really slow for me. It took a good 200 pages or so to really get into it. Honestly, if it wasn't an ARC, I probably would have stopped reading. Grace, the main character, was not exactly likable. I didn't hate her, but I was kind of ambivalent towards her, even her tragic background didn't really make her a sympathetic character for me. She's a psychologist, but she has her own brand of crazy. Her desire for adrenaline and anonymous sexual encounters is not really ever explained and just made her more unlikable to me.
After one of these encounters, Grace has a new patient and it turns out to be the man from the night before. Even though she can't treat him because of what happened (because apparently she's ethical now), she still tries to talk to him about why he sought her out to begin with. He acts really nervous and leaves before really telling her anything. Not soon after, she's contacted by a detective when her business card is found on a murdered John Doe.
Grace is afraid this makes her a person of interest. She lies about her chance encounter with him the night before he came to her office and then decides to launch her own investigation into who this guy really was. And here the real crazy begins. Grace become some kind of Jason Bourne type, acting as a skilled stalker, investigator, spy, assassin, etc. She makes wild conjectures with very little information and no proof that all end up being right. The murder victim obviously has a link to Grace's past, but honestly the link is pretty weak.
Every few chapters is told in an alternate timeline with Grace's past. I generally love multiple timelines, but it took me a long time to get into it here. Despite the in depth history, I just didn't feel like the character was well-developed. She was an unrelatable and pretty unrealistic character. The supporting characters weren't much more than that and with the exception of Malcolm, the man who ended up taking Grace in, none of them really stand out.
Eventually, the story did pick up for me. The backstory chapters were more compelling and Grace ended up getting some real leads. However, the end just wasn't satisfying or very believable.
Overall, I was not a fan of The Murderer's Daughter. The writing style didn't really click with me for a big portion of the book and the main character was pretty unlikable. The plot was not very believable and it annoyed me that Grace just made up a dozen wild theories and they all ended up being right. I'm sure there are people who will probably enjoy this book, but I wasn't one of them.
Overall Rating (out of 5): 2 Stars