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A review by twooddsocks
The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook
3.0
“The Hanging Girl” by Eileen Cook - ⭐⭐⭐
“The sound of the cards whispering as they touched was oddly soothing.” p.g 301
Summary:
Skye Thorn reads tarot cards for her fellow students; unbeknownst to them, she isn’t reading their cards but the students themselves. Although, when a popular girl goes missing, Skye finds herself assisting the police in their search by using her “gifts”. This time, Skye doesn’t need to study body language or her cards, for she has insider knowledge. Thinking it as an easy gain, Skye isn’t prepared for what happens next and everything starts spiralling out of control.
⚠️POSSIBLE SPOILERS⚠️
Thoughts:
Skye is a skeptic but she uses her cards so she can get money to move to New York with her best friend, Drew. Unfortunately, she doesn’t earn enough from her job and the cards to have saved a decent amount to move with Drew, so when she is offered a chance to work with a mysterious person called Pluto, she takes the chance. All she has to do is pretend to have visions about the missing girl, Paige, and feed it to the police.
Skye herself was a character who didn’t have the best morals, but is desperate and wants to leave the life she has. She uses everyone around her, manipulates them into believing her story and essentially gets in too deep. She isn’t really a character you would get behind, but one you follow to see how much worse her situation can get and if she can get out of it. She, to me, felt like a solid character, with flaws and aspirations.
The twists in this book did catch me off guard, however, I did guess the one at the end. The ending of this book however felt it went against Skye. The main motive behind the story and everything happening, was so she could get money to go and live with Drew. Something else happens instead which, to me, was a let down and as mentioned goes against what Skye wanted.
Besides that, this is a story I haven’t seen done before, and I would recommend it to thriller readers.
“The sound of the cards whispering as they touched was oddly soothing.” p.g 301
Summary:
Skye Thorn reads tarot cards for her fellow students; unbeknownst to them, she isn’t reading their cards but the students themselves. Although, when a popular girl goes missing, Skye finds herself assisting the police in their search by using her “gifts”. This time, Skye doesn’t need to study body language or her cards, for she has insider knowledge. Thinking it as an easy gain, Skye isn’t prepared for what happens next and everything starts spiralling out of control.
⚠️POSSIBLE SPOILERS⚠️
Thoughts:
Skye is a skeptic but she uses her cards so she can get money to move to New York with her best friend, Drew. Unfortunately, she doesn’t earn enough from her job and the cards to have saved a decent amount to move with Drew, so when she is offered a chance to work with a mysterious person called Pluto, she takes the chance. All she has to do is pretend to have visions about the missing girl, Paige, and feed it to the police.
Skye herself was a character who didn’t have the best morals, but is desperate and wants to leave the life she has. She uses everyone around her, manipulates them into believing her story and essentially gets in too deep. She isn’t really a character you would get behind, but one you follow to see how much worse her situation can get and if she can get out of it. She, to me, felt like a solid character, with flaws and aspirations.
The twists in this book did catch me off guard, however, I did guess the one at the end. The ending of this book however felt it went against Skye. The main motive behind the story and everything happening, was so she could get money to go and live with Drew. Something else happens instead which, to me, was a let down and as mentioned goes against what Skye wanted.
Besides that, this is a story I haven’t seen done before, and I would recommend it to thriller readers.