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A review by kblincoln
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
4.0
This is one of those books where you feel fascinated and sickened at the same time because you can't wait for the parts where detective Archie Sheridan is being tortured by serial killer Gretchen.
Yeah, one of those.
Like watching Hannibal on TV. But instead of emo Hugh Dancy, we get a middle-aged vicodin-popping world-weary PTSD guy and in this book, another POV character who is a young reporter assigned to follow Archie so a repeat of the media scandal when Gretchen was arrested won't happen.
This book is a fine thriller. There's a tickle of well-plotted threads coming together at the end in a way I didn't see coming, and there's some delicious angst/emotional trauma to wallow in, and there's that train wreck of a hero, Archie, to wonder at.
While I never got deeply emotionally invested, it was compelling enough that I would consider reading on to find out more about Gretchen and Archie (although I have to recover a bit first, my voyeuristic bits are a bit singed).
Yeah, one of those.
Like watching Hannibal on TV. But instead of emo Hugh Dancy, we get a middle-aged vicodin-popping world-weary PTSD guy and in this book, another POV character who is a young reporter assigned to follow Archie so a repeat of the media scandal when Gretchen was arrested won't happen.
This book is a fine thriller. There's a tickle of well-plotted threads coming together at the end in a way I didn't see coming, and there's some delicious angst/emotional trauma to wallow in, and there's that train wreck of a hero, Archie, to wonder at.
While I never got deeply emotionally invested, it was compelling enough that I would consider reading on to find out more about Gretchen and Archie (although I have to recover a bit first, my voyeuristic bits are a bit singed).