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Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
4.0

The twitter hashtag #wtfthatending, the blurb and all of the hype in general, had me so suspicious reading this book that I worked out the ending with about 100 pages to go. So my advice would be to stop reading this or any other review until after you have read this book. Please go away ! Ignore the back of the book! Why are you still reading this? You are spoiling it for yourself! Very well if you insist I will go on.


This is the utterly compelling story of David, Adele and Louise. Similar to a lot of thrillers the narrative skips around telling what happened in the past and then what is happening in present, slowly revealing the whole picture. The present tense part of the story is told from the two female protagonists point of view, leaving you to work out David’s true motives and intentions. So slowly you get to piece together what has happened and what is about to happen. This is a fun, sometime tongue in cheek comedic fun read. I absolutely loved it!


By the way I love the ending but fully understand why others hate it. It’s let’s say a bit of a twist on a normal psychological thriller and it may not be from a genre that thriller readers normally enjoy.

If you have read this book you will understand why I had to lie about something above, so as not to give away the ending :)