My tentative goal for October is to read only thrillers/murder mysteries/dark romances/paranormals/etc (unless my mental health kicks up a fight about it). Here's Hannah Jayne's "See Jane Run."
["I know who you are.
When Riley first gets the postcard tucked into her bag, she thinks it's a joke. Then she finds a birth certificate for a girl named Jane Elizabeth O'Leary hidden inside her baby book.
Riley's parents have always been pretty overprotective. What if it wasn't for her safety...but fear of her finding out their secret? What have they been hiding? The more Riley digs for answers, the more questions she has.
The only way to know the truth? Find out what happened to Jane O'Leary."]
Another who-should-you-believe gaslight-y novel (not super gaslight-y), but definitely full on the paranoia (loooooots of paranoia--okay, I lied, there's also a lot of gaslighting, too). There are two or three compelling stories/versions of the truth. You want to believe Riley's parents, but the "evidence" against them is also strong (as is the suspicion of the people working with/for her parents).
It's also hard because at some point (spoiler alert) Riley stops taking her anxiety meds (or what she's told is her anxiety meds), so when she starts seeing things/people and being followed/stalked and genuinely paranoid as fuck? Do you believe her (because, how many narrators in the thriller/mystery genre are actually mentally unstable--plus, like of course he's being stalked), or do you think it's all in her head due to the lack of meds (because, how many narrators in the thriller/mystery genre are actually mentally unstable--it would be a good twist)??
My head hurt after this one (not sure if it's allergies or speed-reading or reading three+ books in one day--ooorrr if it's the general paranoia/anxiety/gaslight-y-ness of this beautiful disaster).
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