A review by skroot
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

4.25

This is a classic psychological thriller for a reason. The ending is obviously fantastic and completely unexpected. I did get it spoiled but still was pretty blown away by some of the reveals near the end. I like how the book starts off as one thing, and the first half is a very solid detective mystery in itself, but then it veers into a weird direction that has a lot of eyebrow raising moments and kind of lessens the enjoyment for like the third quarter of the book. The reason for why all of that happens is explained in the last quarter but it still is just not very fun while you're reading it and only when it clicks afterward do you start to understand why everything happened. But honestly, the ending just elevates this to a whole other level, and I wholeheartedly believe this would've been one of my most shocking reads had I not gotten it spoiled beforehand.