Book 7 - Sixth Sense Revisited

Title: Hysteria

Author: Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Genre: domestic psychological thriller

This is a tense, intimate book - and, unfortunately, not always in the best way. The writing is strong, but also has an odd cadence that makes it hard (at least for me) for the reader to really get lost in the story. The whole thing is told from Heike's perspective, and feels like a camera angle filled only with her face. No real view or understanding of the surroundings and other characters as they truly are, only her reaction towards them. It's effectively creepy in some scenes, but quickly becomes a tiring, predicable device that results in my mind wandering away from the words at hand to some to-do list in my real life.

Another thing that hit my interest level, and hard, is this big tweeeest that is obvious as hell in the first few chapters. I kept waiting for the reveal to happen in the book, and thought that after the protag knew this thing there would be more to the book. Nope - turns out that's the crutch of the story and largely forms the climax, so by the time the book got to that point I was raging - FINALLYYYYYY.

Rating: 🍓🍓🍓