In the Blood: A Novel | 
pickA psychological thriller that keeps you on edge. Lana was a troubled child, but then Lana‘s father was convicted for murdering Lana‘s mother. Lana is now in a small private college, believing no one knows of the past, but clues of someone knowing keep popping up when Lana‘s best friend disappears.
panThis book had me for the first half. It‘s a solid “Bad Seed” thriller, even though the way the book broaches child psychopathy made me uneasy.
If IN THE BLOOD had ditched its Big Twist about Lana/Lane‘s gender identity, the book would have been so much better. Instead it moved away from more interesting threads & focused on the narrator‘s gender in a way that conflated it with their introspection about monstrosity, psychopathy, and evil. Ugh.
In this psychological thriller, college student Lana Granger is a compulsive liar whose always gotten away with her fabrications. But when she starts babysitting for a manipulative 11-year-old boy, her lies have met their match. When her best friend disappears, police attention turns to Lana. Can she tell the truth, even if it means implicating herself?
This one has been on my radar for while now. #thrillerthursday #readingresolutions
pickCreepy, suspenseful & unputdownable! Can't wait to read more from the same author.
Thank goodness for the long weekend - 'cause I couldn't put this book down!! The suspense is so good!
I'm in awe... Reading every page slowly just to savour the writing.
Delving into this dark thriller... Let's hope it doesn't disappoint.
Just finished! Holy what?! 3 twists in basically one paragraph! My jaw literally dropped! Read this now!
Cold, rainy day is good for books and candles ❤️📚📖
After running nonstop all day I am doing a mud mask / reading moment to take a breath😳😉📖📚❤️
Love her books 📚📚❤️❤️
pickI will definitely read more by Lisa Unger. This got very interesting very fast and kept me guessing. Just what I was looking for in a thriller. This falls in a category I find lately to feel kind of hokey, and the beginning felt that way for this one too. But it wasn't long and I was enthralled with what was being hidden, the secrets, and the lies... And ultimately how it all was connected. Fun read.
Yes! Someday all walls of my house will be floor to ceiling shelving...and I probably will still need to pile books here and there.
pickEvery once in a while I just want to read some screwy f-Ed up story that involves psychological thrills and fictional torture. This book scratched that itch, even if I did find some of its storyline predictable. Solid story-telling, and I really appreciated the POV from a person suffering with mental illness. #womenauthors #thriller
panA novel with potential to be one of the best recent psychological thrillers but which remains unfulfilled. All of its twists are predictable. In its merit, the novel fantastically depicts the psychology of a transgender character and makes great use of the double to achieve dramatic effect, but an ending in which an obviously transgender character - clearly so since early childhood - becomes male again and wants a muscle car is outrageous. #lgbt
"It was human nature to see only what you want to see, and nothing would change that, no matter what tools people had at their disposal. The truth is only what you think it is."
pickI love Lisa Unger books! This one was a great page turner
