A review by readingwithhippos
Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

4.0

Nobody does creepy like Megan Abbott! She’s the master of scenes that make your skin crawl. Even when nothing is obviously amiss, with each page there’s a growing sense that something is wrong, characters aren’t what they seem, and the version of events on the page may not be what actually happened. And don’t ever trust her narrators—in this case, Kit, a high-achieving academic working in a lab. When Diane, a person from Kit’s past, joins the lab, Kit is completely thrown. She and Diane have what you might call a complicated history, one that Kit decidedly does not want to revisit. When Kit finds out she and Diane will be competing for a spot on a prestigious research study run by their enigmatic and mercurial mentor, Kit’s paranoia balloons out of control, with disastrous and bloody consequences. And if you’re not sold on tension alone, Abbott also provides a lot to mull over with respect to women in the sciences and what it takes to earn a spot and keep it. Give Me Your Hand is dark, disturbing, and delightfully feminist.