So this was interesting...
I went into reading this book with an open mind, but I will say that my expectations were high because I loved The Silent Patient so much, but this one was different. I did appreciate the tie-in, finding out that two books are in the same "literary universe" if that's a thing, is just as cool as when it's done on the big screen. Finding out that Mariana and Theo are colleagues connected things a bit for me, but also clued me in on who Mariana might have been as a person as well.
I was initially intrigued by the flare and mystique of the Secret Societies at play, but then it lost my direction once we started adding in characters that seemingly held an importance, but I couldn't seem to justify, like Morris and even Fred, per se. Was Michaelides trying to convey that Fred was Sebastian reincarnated?? or was Fred just a kook???
I have so many questions. I didn't really see the ending coming because it felt like it was so out of left field, that I couldn't even fathom an outcome like that. An intimate relationship amongst a niece and uncle, where the niece sought to avenge the accidental death of her lover/Uncle, taking that vengeance out on her Aunt? It just felt like a stretch to me.
Overall, I'd give it a 3/5. I loved the style of writing, but I just feel like the premise was all over the place.
I went into reading this book with an open mind, but I will say that my expectations were high because I loved The Silent Patient so much, but this one was different. I did appreciate the tie-in, finding out that two books are in the same "literary universe" if that's a thing, is just as cool as when it's done on the big screen. Finding out that Mariana and Theo are colleagues connected things a bit for me, but also clued me in on who Mariana might have been as a person as well.
I was initially intrigued by the flare and mystique of the Secret Societies at play, but then it lost my direction once we started adding in characters that seemingly held an importance, but I couldn't seem to justify, like Morris and even Fred, per se. Was Michaelides trying to convey that Fred was Sebastian reincarnated?? or was Fred just a kook???
I have so many questions. I didn't really see the ending coming because it felt like it was so out of left field, that I couldn't even fathom an outcome like that. An intimate relationship amongst a niece and uncle, where the niece sought to avenge the accidental death of her lover/Uncle, taking that vengeance out on her Aunt? It just felt like a stretch to me.
Overall, I'd give it a 3/5. I loved the style of writing, but I just feel like the premise was all over the place.