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A review by marytreybig
Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson
dark
3.0
I struggle to give this a rating because it truly was well written. The character development and details were all there.
It moved a little slow for me between the “thrilling” parts. I considered DNF’ing because I have a toddler so I don’t have a ton of time to read right now.
My biggest problem was: I guessed the twist! Pretty early on, I thought I had guessed it but then forced myself to keep going thinking that surely the author was trying to trick us and there would be a different mind blowing twist. Nope, I guessed it and I wasn’t shocked at all and found myself wishing I had just stopped at the 30% mark and googled the ending.
Another problem: Seeing inside the mind of one of the characters just disturbed me. I know it was supposed to be that way, but I didn’t like those parts at all.
Thats just me personally. I am in the camp where I wouldn’t recommend this book but I’m also not telling others to forget about it.
I usually love Peter Swanson so I think this was just an off book for me.
It moved a little slow for me between the “thrilling” parts. I considered DNF’ing because I have a toddler so I don’t have a ton of time to read right now.
My biggest problem was: I guessed the twist! Pretty early on, I thought I had guessed it but then forced myself to keep going thinking that surely the author was trying to trick us and there would be a different mind blowing twist. Nope, I guessed it and I wasn’t shocked at all and found myself wishing I had just stopped at the 30% mark and googled the ending.
Another problem: Seeing inside the mind of one of the characters just disturbed me. I know it was supposed to be that way, but I didn’t like those parts at all.
Thats just me personally. I am in the camp where I wouldn’t recommend this book but I’m also not telling others to forget about it.
I usually love Peter Swanson so I think this was just an off book for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Murder