Liar, Dreamer, Thief

audio cd, 1 pages

Published Jan. 9, 2023 by Hachette B and Blackstone Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-6686-2905-5
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Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanisms—like her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children’s book bleed into her vision whenever she feels anxious or stressed.

But when Katrina finds a cryptic message from Kurt that implies he’s aware of her surveillance, her tenuous hold on a normal life crumbles. Driven by compulsion, she enacts the most powerful ritual she has to reclaim control—a midnight visit to the Cayatoga Bridge—and arrives just in time to witness Kurt’s suicide. Before he jumps, he slams her with a devastating accusation: his death is all her fault.

Horrified, Katrina combs through the clues she’s collected about Kurt over the last three years, but each revelation uncovers a menacing truth: for every moment …

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That was delicious, but leaves me a bit breathless. It's the first truly gripping book I've read in a long time. It gave me wanting to read through the night feelings. It also gave me the most intense body feelings I can remember a book ever giving me – shivers and goosebumps, and big solid disgust at that dumpster scene.

As I feared, the big solution to the mystery did not appeal to me very much. To be honest, I liked the story best before the mystery really started. But i still liked it as a whole, and the epilogue tied together some things that I'd missed in between.

I also had thoughts like "I love that this is not A Mental Health Book", which got dampened a bit, but yeah I still think this is mostly not A Mental Health Book, as the very ending reaffirms, and I'm happy …

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