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carol8's review
5.0
"How do you know I'm mad?"
- Lewis Carroll
"I like everything about watching her paint, its silence, its mystery, her slow but purposeful sway, a tableau vivant."
"...because she is no longer present. She is lost inside her painting again."
"We lived in our heads"
Blue Lake; Scarlett Lake
"her new crayon name"
"And there we were, mother and daughter, entering these imaginary worlds, losing ourselves inside them."
"She had lamented the fate of artists, especially women, who were misdiagnosed with madness..."
- Lewis Carroll
"I like everything about watching her paint, its silence, its mystery, her slow but purposeful sway, a tableau vivant."
"...because she is no longer present. She is lost inside her painting again."
"We lived in our heads"
Blue Lake; Scarlett Lake
"her new crayon name"
"And there we were, mother and daughter, entering these imaginary worlds, losing ourselves inside them."
"She had lamented the fate of artists, especially women, who were misdiagnosed with madness..."
jmcmurry's review against another edition
5.0
This is a relatively unknown book that SHOULD be known because WOW. I couldn’t finish it fast enough! It was coming of age/one possibly unreliable narrator/ mental illness commentary/mystery and I LOVED IT. So satisfying.
lattesnlibros's review
4.0
I was pleasantly surprised by this thriller, set in a small Michigan lake-side town. It was a page turner-I finished it a day after starting it! There is a dual timeline told from multiple points of view. Scarlet and her daughter, Blue can't stay put in a town for more that 9 months due to Scarlet's mysterious past. Pick this one up if you are looking for a psychological novel with themes of art and music and an unreliable narrator.
Thank you NetGalley, Dutton from Penguin Random House and Jennifer Murphy for an Advanced Copy in exchange for an honest review.
Thank you NetGalley, Dutton from Penguin Random House and Jennifer Murphy for an Advanced Copy in exchange for an honest review.
books_by_the_bottle's review
4.0
This fast-paced story is told over several decades from three points of view - Blue, her mother Scarlett and Scarlett’s psychoanalyst Dr. Henry. Blue and Scarlett have been on the move for her entire life, relocating every few months to escape “the shadow man”. Scarlett is a talented artist who hears voices - a fact that she tries to keep concealed from her daughter and her doctor. I loved the use of art terminology throughout this story since I loved my art history classes in college as well. Blue is an artist in her own right, a talented pianist, struggling to find her own way. Some parts of this story were slow in the middle, but overall I didn’t want to put this book down. I was trying to guess how how all these pieces fit together til the very end. It came together brilliantly and reminded me a lot of “The Silent Patient”. Also, throughout it all was the strong and resilient relationship of Blue and Scarlett. Thanks to Netgalley, Jennifer Dutton and Penguin Random House for the ARC. Scarlett in Blue releases March 8th! This review will be posted to my Instagram blog books_by_the_bottle shortly.
chrisynthia's review
3.0
I wasn't sure I was going to like this one, but I was pleasantly surprised. She will be a visiting author at my library this summer. I have so many questions!!