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A review by joyceheinen
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Stacy Willingham has come out with her debut novel “A Flicker in the Dark” and was nominated for a Good Reads choice award in the category mystery/ thriller. We meet Chloe Davis, a psychologist, whose father was convicted of murdering several teenage girls twenty years ago. When girls start disappearing again, Chloe is confronted with her past.
We follow the story from Chloe’s point of view and since she is on constant medication, she might be an unreliable narrator. We get to know her very well, since we are following to her in various time periods.
The start has a slow start, but yet you immediately feel a subcutaneous tension. And you also start questioning the people around her and Chloe’s mental health. The setting is well-described and I liked the different timelines it was told in. Stacy Willingham’s writing is smooth and she wrote a pretty solid debut novel. I did kind of see that ending coming, even though we were misdirected a few times.
“A Flicker in the Dark” is a psychological thriller, with tension, but a not-so-surprising ending. Solid, but not something that will stick with me for too long.
We follow the story from Chloe’s point of view and since she is on constant medication, she might be an unreliable narrator. We get to know her very well, since we are following to her in various time periods.
The start has a slow start, but yet you immediately feel a subcutaneous tension. And you also start questioning the people around her and Chloe’s mental health. The setting is well-described and I liked the different timelines it was told in. Stacy Willingham’s writing is smooth and she wrote a pretty solid debut novel. I did kind of see that ending coming, even though we were misdirected a few times.
“A Flicker in the Dark” is a psychological thriller, with tension, but a not-so-surprising ending. Solid, but not something that will stick with me for too long.