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Moderate: Adult/minor relationship
Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use
Group psychotherapist, Mariana, is pulled back into Cambridge University, where her neice Zoe is studying, and where, she herself and late husband met.
When one student dies, Mariana is quick to see connections that the police can't. To protect and help Zoe, she agrees to stay and ask questions, after all, asking never harmed anyone, right?
The dazzling Professor Fosca tops Mariana's list. His alibi's should rule him out after the second tragic student death, but both were in the Professor's secret study group and links him even more to the deaths.
Alex Michaelides draws you back into the world of psychotherapy, using Greek myths to disguise what's lurking in the shadows and culminates in a twist.
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Alcohol
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment
Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Stalking, Murder
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Sexual content, Suicide, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Gore, Murder
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Stalking, Death of parent
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Suicide attempt
Some of the "origin stories" were a bit harrowing, and it's not easy going in that respect, however, as we are trying to understand the motives of a serial killer it makes sense contextually. These messed up childhoods absolutely might create a serial killer.
Kept me guessing right to the end and was actually quite gripping.
Found this to be a slow start but really picked up in the third act and personally I could have done with a bit more pace, potentially this is an audio-book issue rather than a book issue. I liked it overall but I don't think I would go back to it.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Child abuse
Minor: Drug use, Sexual assault
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol
Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Suicide attempt
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship