3.5/5 - I really wanted to love this because the premise is one I haven't personally read before. It seems like a lot of dystopian fiction centers on 3.5/5 - I really wanted to love this because the premise is one I haven't personally read before. It seems like a lot of dystopian fiction centers on the idea that there are perfect / safe-haven societies that someone could become a part of or that just exist in general... but A Better World did a good job of including thriller/mystery elements that made me want to figure out what was really going on.
The reason I'm detracting from 5/5 rating: #1. A Better World is WAY too long. With sci-fi elements and a creepy population of people .. it should have moved at a little faster pace! #2: (Really more of a 1A) - I needed more of the dystopian action and more people to start acting weird sooner. I knew something would be wrong with the science because very little is that perfect.. so it was almost a letdown that the end to have ended the way it did.
**Thank you to Atria Books & NetGalley for the advanced reader copy. I received this book for free, but all thoughts are my own. – SLR ...more
** Listen, Linda.** (if you don't know the meme.. plz look it up. It's hilarious)
I've had this book sitting on my nightstand for a hot minute and hadn** Listen, Linda.** (if you don't know the meme.. plz look it up. It's hilarious)
I've had this book sitting on my nightstand for a hot minute and hadn't picked it up because I was trying to get through ALL the deadlines, right? But if someone had told me that this book matched the energy of The Silent Patient or The Maidens??? I would have devoured it immediately.
I'm not kidding when I say I've been searching for that same level of shock - specifically from The Maidens - in every thriller I read. I just keep waiting for a suspenseful tale to ensnare me with its wickedness. Delving into depravity one page at a time... few thrillers have moved me really? The aforementioned Alex Michaelides books, The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead... truly repulsive, fantastic stuff!! (And I say that with all joy because I felt like they were fresh and new!)
This is that. It's fresh, it's what I needed whilst slogging through the last dredges of a winter depression slump and I can't even explain how much thriller lovers everywhere will love this one. I read this in less than 24 hours, and that's saying something when you've been stuck in a lab day by day and get approximately only 6.2 minutes of sunshine per diem!
P.S. That ending..? *Chef's kiss*
**Thank you to Atria Books for the advanced reader copy. I received this book for free, but all thoughts are my own. – SLR ...more
A concept I really started diving into the last few months is reading books with the mindset of what the author was trying to accomplish when they wroA concept I really started diving into the last few months is reading books with the mindset of what the author was trying to accomplish when they wrote it. When I started reading The Silence in Her Eyes - the cadence of the storyline was really throwing me off. As I got deeper into the plot, though, I realized that it's written purposefully this way to convey what a fractured mind's thought pattern would be like. Glossing over things they don't feel are important - leaving out things that would make them seem 'unlikeable.'
The Silence in Her Eyes is a true illustration of an unreliable narrator!! Especially since so many books today focus on many different narratives - reading from one perspective can always get you mired down in the muck of her thoughts - but I really enjoyed differentiating between what was reality and personal perception!!
My thoughts swirled while reading this as well... 'Are people around her taking advantage of her?' 'Is her kinetopsia from neurological damage or trauma-related?' 'What parts of her day is she leaving out of the story?' 'Why are the people around her so insistent in asking her certain types of questions?' 'Why was her trust set up that way?'
When reading it from these perspectives, I think readers will absolutely enjoy the puzzle of reading from a perhaps purposefully deceptive mind and a decidedly sinister aura hanging over you as you read Correa's work of domestic suspense! (Correa is also the author of a few other best selling historical fiction works so I think it's awesome that he broke from his usual style - IMO that freedom of expression is where creators of all kinds flourish!)
P.S. The ending!? The way things are so casually said? *chef's kiss*
**Thank you to Atria Books & NetGalley for the advanced reader copy. I received this book for free, but all thoughts are my own. – SLR ...more
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