A thriller that will be highly talked about!

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The Maidens is going to be the book that is most talked about in 2021. I cannot even begin to describe how much I loved this book. The author has such exceptional writing that makes you want to devour the book in one sitting. I couldn’t get enough, the plot twists had me shaken, and the characters were so fleshed out and well written.

This follows Mariana, a psychologist, who goes to comfort her niece at college after one of her friends gets brutally murdered. While there she meets Edward Fosca, who is a professor at Cambridge, she gets a bad feeling from him right away and as she learns more about him she starts suspecting he is the one murdering students. The same students who happen to be in his special group called The Maidens. Mariana will stop at nothing to make sure Edward goes away for his crimes because she is sure he is the murderer.

“It makes me wonder, Professor,” she said, with a slight frown, “what on earth it is that you’re so desperate to hide?”
Fosca smiled. “I’m not trying to hide anything. Let’s just say I wish to be there, to protect my students.”
“Protect them? From what?”
“From you, Mariana,” he said. “From you.”

What a book, like really, I can’t stop thinking about this very creepy thriller. I love how so many aspects were weaved together so effortlessly. We have so many creepy characters who I suspected each and every one of them at one point as the murderer, the Greek tragedies that the author puts throughout the story, and the main character Mariana and her grief that she is trying to overcome. I was thoroughly engaged and when the explosive ending arrived and I read the mind-blowing twist, I knew this was going to be a highly talked about book. It wasn’t an unbelievable twist that had me frustrated, it was a perfect twist that looking back I should have seen who the killer was. It was a very disturbing plot twist, but one I won’t stop thinking about for a while.

I can’t wait to see what Michaelides writes next because I loved The Silent Patient, but I think The Maidens tops that book. It was unputdownable and was full of everything you want in a thriller.