📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 A Flicker in the Dark
AUTHOR: Stacy Willingham @stacyvwillingham
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: January 11, 2022
The Review 📚 A Flicker in the Dark
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- This thriller was getting some early buzz and sounded like it would be a really good time!
💜 What I liked:
- This is quite a journey. I began to suspect people early on but there is also a twist (or two!) I didn’t see. Chloe has trauma and it clouds her perception everywhere. Stacy does a really good job of leading you to every possible outcome.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- The pacing of this book was strange and sometimes you bounce between memories of the past and the present narrative in a confusing way.
🚦 My face at the end: 🤓
💭 4 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Unreliable narrator
- 2. Past revisits the present
- 3. Missing Girls
- 4. Mystery
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Chloe’s father was convicted of being a serial killer. Now 20 years later, Chloe is haunted by one with similar methods.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
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📘 Summary 📚 A Flicker in the Dark
From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, Chloe’s father had been arrested as a serial killer and promptly put in prison. Chloe and the rest of her family were left to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.
Now 20 years later, Chloe is a psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. She finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to get. Sometimes, though, she feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. And then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren’t really there, or for the second time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer?
In a debut novel that has already been optioned for a limited series by actress Emma Stone and sold to a dozen countries around the world, Stacy Willingham has created an unforgettable character in a spellbinding thriller that will appeal equally to fans of Gillian Flynn and Karin Slaughter.