Oh lord. How do I write this review?
There isn’t much point in writing a summary since you can read that on Amazon, and who wants to just read a review that is the same as the book synopsis that’s posted everywhere? I digress.
I finally picked up this book, after it had been on my TBR pile for some time. Granted, as of late, with a new baby, I haven’t been able to read as much as I used to. That being said, I had finally heard the Best Thriller Books team talk enough about this book, so I moved it up to my next read. I had also read - both online and even on the back of the book jacket - that this book has quite the twist. Either way, I’m the ideal mystery/thriller reader, because I never see the twist coming. Like a lovesick teenager that can’t wrap my head around the fact that my girlfriend is swapping spit under the bleachers with the place kicker on the football team (my past self could’ve never got a girl that would’ve made out with a QB), I never see twists coming, even when I know they’re expected. This book was just that. I dropped an f-bomb in front of my 6-month-old kid because it surprised me so much. Thanks Adam Hamdy. Now my girl is going to be busted swearing in Kindergarten, and I’m going to have to explain to the teacher that I read a book that blew my mind so much that I forgot she existed. Either way, this book is superb. It’s really hard to put into words what this book was. It was 40% thriller, 50% mystery, 10% some other stuff, but 100% ‘what the f***’.
You know how sometimes when you watch a movie in the theater that has some wild twist, and you spend all of the credits, the drive home, that evening, and the ensuing four years trying to figure out what the hell happened. That’s this book. It’s a phenomenal novel that I can’t recommend enough.
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