From the bestselling author of The Social Affair and HER comes a riveting new thriller about a writer desperate to make a comeback who realizes that success may cost more than he can afford to pay when a stranger arrives at his door.
George is bitter. As he should be. Once a household name, George is dying to make a comeback, and death may be the only option left to get the public’s attention. Ask anyone, his life is unraveling at the seams. Meanwhile, his new apprentice is everything he is not.
The enigmatic man his publisher sends to help is young and ambitious, with looks that could kill, and possibly do.
When George discovers that his apprentice’s talent extends beyond fixing broken plots, that his winning formula may, in fact, be a result of making the crimes in his novels come to life, George has to ask himself how much he is willing to overlook to achieve mainstream success.
Perfectly paced, The Book Doctor is an electrifying psychological thriller about a life’s work, obsession, and the dangerous places ambition can take you. Full of enough tension and twists to make even the most seasoned suspense reader break out in a cold sweat, it keeps you guessing until the very last page.
My Review:
Rating: 3/5 stars
This was my first time reading Britney King's work and if I'm honest I was expecting more. Reading the blurbed I was interested but now that I've read the book, I don't even think the blurb is accurate. I don't think George (the MC) overlooks anything to achieve success. He has his suspicions about Liam but that's all they are. The book didn't really give George chance to contemplate who Liam, the young apprentice, helping him finish his book, was. It felt like so much was put into the first half of the book that the ending just seemed an easy way to finish it.
I really love the cover and I think the name of the book is clever. I wanted to know more about Eve and their children as I was never sure what actually happened. If you give us all the gory details one thing then surely we should have details relating to other things as well. Readers don't like being left out when they don't need to be. Knowing more about George and his family would have helped me to have a better connection to him.
The book was definitely thrilling as I was finding it hard to read the book at night but the ending was disappointing. The idea was there but I don't think it was executed well enough. If you've read Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson, which I really enjoyed, it has a similar ending but the build up was done a lot better. I'm not saying that I predicted the ending but it didn't seem to fit. There was no build up to an unreliable narrator and the ending didn't help everything make sense.
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