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bebocarrick 's review for:
The Dollmaker
by Morgan Shamy
Thank you to NetGalley for providing me an ARC of this audiobook for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
I saw the description of this book and immediately requested it because it gave me Hannibal vibes. I LOVE some Hannibal, so I was so down for a book about a serial killer attacking women and cutting them up only to display them in interesting ways. AND what's not to love about a strong independent woman who stands up against society's sexism?? The description of Dawn's goal of becoming a doctor at a time where women weren't allowed to do much had me all excited. The audiobook also has some excellent narration, so I was pretty invested at the beginning.
This is all well and good, except my excitement dropped at a dizzyingly fast rate because Dawn was definitely not the strong independent woman I hoped for. While hunting down this murderer, she meets these dudes and. And that was NOT the vibe I was hoping for.
I was hoping for a lot more gruesome murdery-descriptions and chasing down the murderer, especially with this being described as a horror/thriller, but I would call it more of a historical romance with the brooding, morally-gray (and honestly kinda toxic) male love interests that are very popular right now.
The big murderer reveal did catch me off guard, but not in a way that made me intrigued. It was more like "wait, these motives don't make any sense, even if this person is mentally unwell..."
All that to say, the advertising around this book should probably shift to saying its more of a romance, because I think it would find more of its audience in that group and not with people like me who were hoping for some fucking wild murders.
Publication date: 28 Feb 2023
I saw the description of this book and immediately requested it because it gave me Hannibal vibes. I LOVE some Hannibal, so I was so down for a book about a serial killer attacking women and cutting them up only to display them in interesting ways. AND what's not to love about a strong independent woman who stands up against society's sexism?? The description of Dawn's goal of becoming a doctor at a time where women weren't allowed to do much had me all excited. The audiobook also has some excellent narration, so I was pretty invested at the beginning.
This is all well and good, except my excitement dropped at a dizzyingly fast rate because Dawn was definitely not the strong independent woman I hoped for. While hunting down this murderer, she meets these dudes and
Spoiler
starts fake courting one of them, which of course leads to feelings, but then GASP, she likes the other one more and is now in this weird love triangle-esque thing with these brothers low-key fighting over her. Not to mention, all the feminism leaves her body when she's around these guys and she constantly needs to be rescued by them.I was hoping for a lot more gruesome murdery-descriptions and chasing down the murderer, especially with this being described as a horror/thriller, but I would call it more of a historical romance with the brooding, morally-gray (and honestly kinda toxic) male love interests that are very popular right now.
The big murderer reveal did catch me off guard, but not in a way that made me intrigued. It was more like "wait, these motives don't make any sense, even if this person is mentally unwell..."
All that to say, the advertising around this book should probably shift to saying its more of a romance, because I think it would find more of its audience in that group and not with people like me who were hoping for some fucking wild murders.
Publication date: 28 Feb 2023