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A review by lyrasbookshelf
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
4.0
It is a total page-turner!
I know that the gist of the story is not unique. There are lots of books like this one, but this is so gripping you just cannot put it down.
Would have been five glowing stars, but I feel like there's a significant chunk missing from the story. The premise describes Lee as too perfect to be true, charming, mysterious and gorgeous. Well, the latter might be true, but as a reader, I never saw his charming side. He also wasn't mysterious, he was secretive and creepy from the start. So much so that I had a hard time seeing why Catherine or her friends liked him. Their relationship moved WAY too fast to be believable. He showed his true colours around 1.5 months into their relationship, at which point I think no sane woman is so invested as to stay with a violent man. Catherine was a young woman who loved to go out partying, not a woman in her thirties desperate to get married and settle down, so her putting up with his shit just made no sense. The guy also didn't meet her friends so much to warrant their reactions to Catherine wanting to end it. If a friend you have known for years tells you she's scared, will you convince her to stay because a guy is gorgeous or will you help her escape? Why would they take the side of a random guy she's been with for a few months? Who ACTUALLY does that? Had there been more interactions between the guy and her friends, it would have made more sense.
However, I loved that it was a mix of a psychological thriller and romance and like I said, it's really gripping, so I can forgive the fact that a big part of the plot seems implausible to me.
I know that the gist of the story is not unique. There are lots of books like this one, but this is so gripping you just cannot put it down.
Would have been five glowing stars, but I feel like there's a significant chunk missing from the story. The premise describes Lee as too perfect to be true, charming, mysterious and gorgeous. Well, the latter might be true, but as a reader, I never saw his charming side. He also wasn't mysterious, he was secretive and creepy from the start. So much so that I had a hard time seeing why Catherine or her friends liked him. Their relationship moved WAY too fast to be believable. He showed his true colours around 1.5 months into their relationship, at which point I think no sane woman is so invested as to stay with a violent man. Catherine was a young woman who loved to go out partying, not a woman in her thirties desperate to get married and settle down, so her putting up with his shit just made no sense. The guy also didn't meet her friends so much to warrant their reactions to Catherine wanting to end it. If a friend you have known for years tells you she's scared, will you convince her to stay because a guy is gorgeous or will you help her escape? Why would they take the side of a random guy she's been with for a few months? Who ACTUALLY does that? Had there been more interactions between the guy and her friends, it would have made more sense.
However, I loved that it was a mix of a psychological thriller and romance and like I said, it's really gripping, so I can forgive the fact that a big part of the plot seems implausible to me.