The Woman Inside is a Swedish thriller that really kept me guessing. The characters were all loosely connected in different ways but it was hard to figure out the bigger picture which I really liked!
What we know:
Dr. Steven Rytter and his wife are found dead in their home in an apparent "family tragedy"
Karla cleans the Rytter's home
Bill Olsson is in serious financial trouble
Karla lives with Bill
Jennica is an unambitious woman who falls for Steven
Bill and Jennica are connected through Bill's late wife, but there is tension and bad blood between them
What we don't know:
If we are on a linear timeline
How Steven and Regina Rytter died
If there is something bigger at play connecting these individuals
If we can trust anyone
This book definitely kept me guessing and it came together really well. It held my interest and I was intrigued to see how the pieces would fit together.
However, this is one of those books with a bunch of characters I didn't like. Normally, I love to dislike characters, but this wasn't a fun dislike. They were just semi-normal people who kept making bad decisions that annoyed me. Jennica was whiny and a bit of a contradiction for me; Bill just made bad choice after bad choice and the gambling just left me with zero sympathy for him; Karla was obnoxiously naive and never seemed to learn from her mistakes.
I listened to the audiobook and enjoyed it. There were three separate narrators which I always like and they were all fine. None of them particularly stood out to me but they helped move the story along and kept my interest.
Overall, I enjoyed this one. I did however like A Nearly Normal Family better.
Thank you to Celadon Books, MacMillan Audio, and NetGalley for the copy.
What we know:
Dr. Steven Rytter and his wife are found dead in their home in an apparent "family tragedy"
Karla cleans the Rytter's home
Bill Olsson is in serious financial trouble
Karla lives with Bill
Jennica is an unambitious woman who falls for Steven
Bill and Jennica are connected through Bill's late wife, but there is tension and bad blood between them
What we don't know:
If we are on a linear timeline
How Steven and Regina Rytter died
If there is something bigger at play connecting these individuals
If we can trust anyone
This book definitely kept me guessing and it came together really well. It held my interest and I was intrigued to see how the pieces would fit together.
However, this is one of those books with a bunch of characters I didn't like. Normally, I love to dislike characters, but this wasn't a fun dislike. They were just semi-normal people who kept making bad decisions that annoyed me. Jennica was whiny and a bit of a contradiction for me; Bill just made bad choice after bad choice and the gambling just left me with zero sympathy for him; Karla was obnoxiously naive and never seemed to learn from her mistakes.
I listened to the audiobook and enjoyed it. There were three separate narrators which I always like and they were all fine. None of them particularly stood out to me but they helped move the story along and kept my interest.
Overall, I enjoyed this one. I did however like A Nearly Normal Family better.
Thank you to Celadon Books, MacMillan Audio, and NetGalley for the copy.