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A review by thehouseplantlibrarian
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
3.0
Chloe lives her life in the shadow of her dark past, having never reconciled the father she loved with his shocking confession and imprisonment for the murders of several young girls, even though her testimony had been a nail on his coffin. Having built her life from the broken pieces of her family, she is now a psychologist who specializes in understanding the dark impulses that lay inside her patients, and is newly engaged to a man who knows nothing of her family's past. When local girls start going missing, in a pattern that is eerily similar to her father's crime, she begins to question her reality and is hell bent on uncovering the truth. As clues begin to align, she wonders if she can trust anyone close to her or her own memories of the terrible crime from so many years ago.
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I made two predictions from the very beginning that ended up being true and all the extraneous details and events that occurred in the middle served only to perplex me. Most of the psychological confusion occurs within Chloe's own head, which feels disorganized and panic-driven. I appreciate the perspective of a child of a murderer and what happens when family's are broken by one of their members crimes, which certainly explains Chloe's obsession with uncovering the truth. But I was not invested in her story and felt myself zoning out quite a bit. I felt bad for all the other character's she began to suspect, when failing to even look at the actual perpetrator.
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This was a book club pick. I like listening to thriller's via audiobook, but the more I do it, the less original I find individual books within the genre.
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I made two predictions from the very beginning that ended up being true and all the extraneous details and events that occurred in the middle served only to perplex me. Most of the psychological confusion occurs within Chloe's own head, which feels disorganized and panic-driven. I appreciate the perspective of a child of a murderer and what happens when family's are broken by one of their members crimes, which certainly explains Chloe's obsession with uncovering the truth. But I was not invested in her story and felt myself zoning out quite a bit. I felt bad for all the other character's she began to suspect, when failing to even look at the actual perpetrator.
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This was a book club pick. I like listening to thriller's via audiobook, but the more I do it, the less original I find individual books within the genre.