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A review by reader_of_rohan
Killing Lily by Jillian Gardner
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
What a read! Thank you so much to the aithor, the publisher, and Love Books Tours for my copy of this book.
I've read a few thrillers about cults before - I find them an intriguing and rather terrifying concept - but this one surpasses them all. I found myself getting so stressed and angry, both by and on behalf of the main characters. This is definitely a story that provokes an emotional response, if not many varying emotional responses in a rollercoaster that somehow still manages to be under three hundred pages! So much happens, and it requires digestion time afterwards. The ending had me flicking back through the book to try to spot signs that I'd missed...
Without spoiling anything, there's a scene involving phonics which I thought was absolutely beautiful, and really summed up a lot about the character's experience.
I've read a few thrillers about cults before - I find them an intriguing and rather terrifying concept - but this one surpasses them all. I found myself getting so stressed and angry, both by and on behalf of the main characters. This is definitely a story that provokes an emotional response, if not many varying emotional responses in a rollercoaster that somehow still manages to be under three hundred pages! So much happens, and it requires digestion time afterwards. The ending had me flicking back through the book to try to spot signs that I'd missed...
Without spoiling anything, there's a scene involving phonics which I thought was absolutely beautiful, and really summed up a lot about the character's experience.