meghan_readsbooks 's review for:

Privacy by Nina Sadowsky

3.0

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I appreciate the chance to review an early copy of Nina Sadowsky's Privacy, a suspense mystery with a lot of potential that never quite came together for me. The plot involving a therapist, Laina Landers, and a series of can't be coincidental threats and events related to her clients and therapy practice as well as an investigative journalist, Cal Murray, who becomes involved with one of the client's events. The narrative is well paced, mixing in short chapters from someone who is watching the characters and longer chapters from Nina's perspective and then Cal's perspective. The plot itself is also interesting and held my attention for the early part of the story but my interest just didn't hold up, I struggled a bit with some of the actions Laina and Cal engaged in (vague to avoid spoilers) and as a psychologist some parts of the plot understandably didn't click with me (again spoiler free for readers!, many will enjoy this story!). I did find the theme of privacy and how and when and to whom we share intimate information to be really interesting and thought provoking, that was the theme that kept me reading and still resonates with me.

I think this is still a great summer book and a lot of suspense readers will enjoy this one. The themes on privacy and actions of the character are worthy of a book chat as well.