A review by amandaexe
No Escuro by Elizabeth Haynes, Mauro Pinheiro

3.0

I don't have that much to say about this one. I thought it was okay, but still pretty generic. I just feel like I've already read this story before, nothing in it was surprising, it felt like there weren't any plot twists (nothing I guessed was gonna happen happened; things I thought were obvious from context happened instead, in a way that was supposed to be surprising for some reason), which is the one thing that makes thrillers interesting.

I was just generally worried about how in the past Cathy and her friends are all raging alcoholics and somehow that's normal. It's nice that in the present she's aware of how fucked up that part of her life was but I wished it was discussed a bit further. (Worse things that definitely also deserve discussing were happening in her life, but that kind of alcohol abuse in books bothers me to no end. At least it wasn't played off as a normal, regular thing that normal, regular people do like some other books).

Also, what a crime to include a Charlie and a Claire in a book and not put them together lmao.