It's 1987, Buenos Aires, 1987 and Lisandra is found dead at the bottom of a 6 storey building. When her husband, a psychoanalyst, is arrested, one of his patients, Eva Maria, decides to prove his innocence.
Found it very difficult to care if he was guilty or innocent.
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I was pretty excited to learn that I had won a digital advanced reading copy of this book from the First to Read program. I was in the mood to read a psychological suspense novel. I wanted something that would keep me on my toes and guessing through the whole thing.

Well, it did keep me guessing through the whole thing...

This story is a "who done it" kind of story. Lisandra P. is dead. She was found four stories down from one of her apartment windows dead on the street. Thrown. The police automatically suspected her husband Vittorio of the crime.

Vittorio was a shrink, a psychoanalyst. And one of he had recruited one of his patients, Eva Maria to help him figure out who really did kill his wife (as he denied that it was him).

So we follow Eva Maria as she tries to puzzle the whole mystery together to try to prove that Vittorio did not kill his wife.

Sounds like a great read right?

Well, it could have been. It had great potential. However, it dragged...a lot. There were some moments that I was completely pulled in, but the parts that were slow far exceeded the interesting bits.

I also never really found myself connected with any of the characters in the story. I wish I could have found some connection, but it just never happened.

I also kept finding myself running into bits of the story that I just didn't fully understand. I guess they were meant for building the character profiles, but I could have done without some of it.

I really wish I could have gotten to read this one in its original language. I think it would have been better as I am sure that some things were lost in translation.

All in all, I really wanted to like this book, but it fell very short for me. I finished it because curiosity and the hope that it would get better kept me going.

My Rating
2.5 Stars

This review is based on an eARC provided by the publishers via the First to Read program in exchange for a fair and honest review.


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I love mystery books & this one took an emotional toll on me. It went into specific details & helped me to picture the story as I read on. At one point, I was so close to breaking down while reading it on the train. It’s an excellent read for those who appreciate a crime story.

3.5 stars. I certainly didn't see the ending coming. Not bad. A little easy read for the in between moments.

This is 100% what I wish [b:Hausfrau|22725443|Hausfrau|Jill Alexander Essbaum|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1419180448s/22725443.jpg|41246261] had been; this book is not getting the Gone Girl comparisons it deserves. It's weird and compelling, it's about Argentinian politics in the middle of the twentieth century and the people (women) who are involved with a shady psychoanalyst. I want to read it again.

wow!! This book is a bit hard to get into at the beginning but it is a fast paced, hard to put down read. I'm very glad I stuck with it.

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I came into this book expecting something like Gone Girl, and I got that, but I also got a little something else. My senior year of High School, our Spanish class was focused on border studies, and how the United States has interacted with Latin world in the past. Because this book took place in Argentina, in a time that is Post-Peron, it had a heavy impact on the characters, and it became less about what happened to Lisandra, but also, what happened to all of these characters on the side.

This book did keep me guessing as to whether or not her husband killed her, and the way it was written was very intriguing. Eva Marie is one of the most unreliable narrators I’ve come across, simply because you’re never sure of her state of mind when she’s talking to you. She’s an alcoholic, who has suffered a major loss in her life, so she seems to always be teetering on the brink of insanity.

One of the things that I really loved about this book was the writing style. I’m trying to read more writings in translation because of that, and this book was a great one to read. The writing was beautiful, and yet so different than what I’m accustomed to. The way Gremillion handles her characters, and the way we dive into their minds is something I haven’t seen in things I’ve read before and comes highly recommended. The only thing I wasn’t crazy about was the ending, I wasn’t super satisfied with it, but other than that, this book was a treasure. I would absolutely encourage people to read it.

Well...what do I rate this one? It's a compelling page turner for sure (once again, just like in The Confidant) but has quite the ending, did I see it coming? Somewhat? Maybe? One thing I can say with absolute certainty - this book should never have been produced as an audiobook. So very much is lost in audio -the changes in type, the writing, the pages with one sentence only, the transcripts and the footnotes. At any rate, I need to sit on it and see if it stays with me, to see what I think overall after it's settled. Disturbing. Unexpected. Didn't want to put it down.

I received this book from a Goodreads giveaway. Interesting and suspenseful read. It was a page-turner that kept me guessing.