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A review by idle_reader
Wonderland by Jennifer Hillier
3.0
This was the perfect book to get me out of a reading funk. I hadn’t picked up a book in a while that made it hard to stop reading. For that reason, this book was a 4. EDIT: came back and gave it a 3, closer to 3.5 after thinking on it a little more.
I hadn’t read anything by Jennifer Hillier so I was pleasantly surprised by her ability to build suspense. I also appreciated the insight into the characters’ lives. It wasn’t just a thriller with little to no character development.
My only complaint is that she made it seem like the killer could be too many people. First, we suspect Hovey, then we suspect Bianca and Oz, then Carlos. Then it ends up being someone we don’t find out had anything to do with Wonderland and it’s sordid past until the very end. The reveal of who the killer was at the end was also a little anticlimactic because Vanessa had already been told who Bianca’s jilted lover was. BUT, I still very very much enjoyed this book and would recommend to anyone who was in the thriller mood.
I hadn’t read anything by Jennifer Hillier so I was pleasantly surprised by her ability to build suspense. I also appreciated the insight into the characters’ lives. It wasn’t just a thriller with little to no character development.
My only complaint is that she made it seem like the killer could be too many people. First, we suspect Hovey, then we suspect Bianca and Oz, then Carlos. Then it ends up being someone we don’t find out had anything to do with Wonderland and it’s sordid past until the very end. The reveal of who the killer was at the end was also a little anticlimactic because Vanessa had already been told who Bianca’s jilted lover was. BUT, I still very very much enjoyed this book and would recommend to anyone who was in the thriller mood.