A review by brighteyes1178
The Carrier by Sophie Hannah

4.0

No, this was not my favorite Zailer and Waterhouse, but I was pretty surprised at how angry and disparaging the reviews were. I trust goodreads readers' opinions implicitly (if we as a community rate something lower than a 3.5, I almost always agree), so I put off reading this book for a few years, wondering if something had really happened to Sophie Hannah's writing. What I didn't realize when I put the book off is that a lot of her books have pretty low ratings; this just happened to be one of the lowest, but books I gave 5s to were also rated on the average near a 3. So what I've learned is that you love Sophie Hannah's books or you hate them. You find the story engaging and can't put the book down, or you're immediately thinking "why do people like this rambling crap? How is she really on book 8?". Since I've fallen into the "rambling crap" camp with plenty of other authors, I'm just going to say that you should go back to the earlier books in this series first; don't start with this one. The books don't really need to be read in order, but if this is your first experience, I don't think it will make you want to read the others, and if you want to get invested in a series of psychological thrillers, then I do think you should read it.

Once I got into this book, like the previous 7, I found it difficult to put down. I just wanted to know who did it, and as usual, I thought I knew but was not certain until the last pages. Don't ignore this one just because it's rated so poorly if you're a Sophie Hannah fan - the ratings don't really apply to us!