nicolealycia's profile picture

nicolealycia 's review for:

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
4.0

4.5/5 stars
I’ve been seeing this one around for a while and finally decided to read it after I saw one of my coworkers reading it on her lunch break.
All in all I really liked this book. I liked the characters, I liked that I was constantly flip flopping back and forth between who I thought the bad guy was (my first guess was right), and I really liked the pace this book kept although I thought it could have been a little shorter.
I will say it loses the half star from me because I’m starting to get tired of the whole “she’s taking medication and she drinks so she’s not in her right mind” trope that seems to be a really big thing in thrillers. Can’t she take the medication and be totally in her right mind? Can we push that in a book because taking low doses of medications even while drinking doesn’t make you that spacey.
Other than that I really enjoyed this one and I’m looking to reading more by this author!