#wtfthatending

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Behind her eyes

#Behind her eyes series#

#Behind her eyes tv#

It’s creepy and engaging throughout the early chapters.īut then? Well… then, Behind Her Eyes becomes a different kind of story altogether, and a much sillier one. She’s great.) And Lightfoot and LaManna (who worked together on Hannibal and The Punisher) smartly and plausibly keep tilting the audience’s sympathies, so that any one of the three leads can seem like the villain or the victim at different points of the story. (There’s also a scene where she screams “Fuck off!” for so long, it becomes an aria. Hewson ( The Knick), who’s particularly strong, is styled with a sharp bob and a chic, mostly-white wardrobe to accentuate the power that Adele holds over both her husband and her new friend, though she’s obviously dangerous to both. Before Louise can stop herself, she has fallen into bed with David and become close friends with Adele, convinced she can maintain both relationships without anyone finding out.Īll of this is conventional but well executed, with central performances that are alluring even as each side of the triangle behaves badly. He is, of course, married - and, worse, he is Louise’s new boss, David (Tom Bateman), new in town along with his glamorous, mentally ill wife Adele (Eve Hewson). On a lonely night out at a pub, she hits it off with a handsome stranger, but he runs off right when the evening is about to advance to the next step. Louise (Simona Brown) is an English single mom who works part-time in a psychiatrist’s office.

#Behind her eyes series#

Adapted by Steve Lightfoot and Angela LaManna, the series starts off in familiar, secure territory as an erotic thriller about a love triangle.

#Behind her eyes tv#

The shame of it is that Behind Her Eyes the TV show is actually pretty good, until it starts prizing wild twists above all else. And I’m sorry to report that my reaction was the latter. I have not read Pinborough’s novel, and only learned of the hashtag after watching all six episodes of the new Netflix limited series version of Behind Her Eyes. Behind Her Eyes, a bestselling thriller written by Sarah Pinborough, was marketed with its own hashtag, #WTFThatEnding, that can be interpreted two ways: as a lure convincing potential readers that they’ll be delighted by an unexpected conclusion, or as a warning that they’ll want to hurl the book across the room upon finishing.

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I read BEHIND HER EYES by SARAH PINBOROUGH and…

It’s no secret that Sarah Pinborough is an author whose storytelling keeps on going from strength to strength; it’s a fact that she proves in her new novel which is, arguably, her best work to date. Behind Her Eyes is an accessible yet intricately woven thriller. It lays down the breadcrumbs of a plot which leads the reader down into such depths of intrigue and mystery that the idea of not following it to the end is absurd, and I don’t trust myself to write a full review of it.

I say this sincerely. I’m terrified I’ll ruin the story if I talk too much about this book, and there is a lot to talk about. Its hashtag is #WTFthatending, and WTF indeed! The books ends on a hammer blow but (and this is an important but) it simply would not work if Pinborough hadn’t steered us towards it with a deft hand. The intricacies and clues and mysteries build subtly to a powerful conclusion, which, I imagine, will ensure Behind Her Eyes will be among the top five thrillers of 2017. So go and buy a copy. You need this book. 

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The #Bookvent Calendar 2017: Day 5

#Bookvent – Celebrating my top reads of 2017 

My fifth #bookvent choice is perhaps one of the most hyped and widely discussed books of January. Thoroughly divisive this was the marmite book of the moment. You either loved it or you hated it. Nothing more, nothing less. I loved it. Some questioned if it was right to mash up genres quite so blatantly, others asked ‘why the hell not?’ Every single…

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New book review up on the blog. #behindhereyes #sarahpinborough #wtfthatending

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Alabama is urging me to finish #BehindHerEyes so we can discuss the #wtfthatending. My stomach is in knots! #bookstagram #catsofinstagram

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Behind Her Eyes - Sarah Pinborough 

Behind Her Eyes – Sarah Pinborough 

I’ve started to write this post so many times, but each time it has resulted in a word-vomit pile of fangirl blathering. I’m afraid this time is no different.  Warning – this review will contain A LOT of love for this book, its author and its legendary (I swear I’m not exaggerating) #WTFthatending which I promise not to spoil.  To restrict my gushy gushball gushing, I have just 5 little things to…

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So I just finished this epic thriller and I've got to say #wtfthatending #behindhereyes

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Netflix’s Behind Her Eyes Ending Explained

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Warning: contains major plot spoilers for the Behind Her Eyes finale

When a novel is marketed with the hashtag: #WTFthatending, you know it’s going to pull a big move. Sarah Pinborough’s 2017 thriller Behind Her Eyes pulls a move so big that Keyser Söze himself would salute the audacity. Not only does the novel swap genres halfway through, shifting from psychological thriller to supernatural fantasy, it swaps lead characters. Literally. 

Steve Lightfoot and Angela LaManna’s six-part Netflix adaptation follows suit, with a final episode that prompts viewers to revisit everything we’ve seen until that point. What first appeared to be the slippery story of a woman gradually uncovering the secrets of a brittle marriage, ends up as a twisty tale of paranormal identity theft. 

Before the finale lands on a definitive and unexpected answer to the question of whether Adele or David is this story’s villain (spoiler: it’s neither), we’re led to suspect both. Through Louise’s changing perspective, we variously see Adele as vulnerable and abused, or dangerous and scheming. David is either a lonely knight in shining armour, or a coercive, controlling serial cheat. And then a character we were never led to suspect of wrongdoing turns out to be the architect of it all: Rob. 

‘It all goes back to Rob’

Rob and Adele met as teenagers at Westlands Rehab and instantly struck up a bond. Despite their different social backgrounds (Him: a working class, gay heroin addict from a Glaswegian tenement. Her: an upper class, straight, wealthy Scottish heiress whose parents recently died in a fire), the pair discovered that they had something important in common. They both suffered from night terrors, and Adele first taught Rob the ability to lucid dream, and then to astral project his soul out of his unconscious body.

After leaving rehab, Rob visited Adele in her mansion and the pair experimented with astral projection or ‘travelling’, as Adele called it. Eventually, Rob convinced Adele to try swapping bodies while their souls were ‘travelling’ as part of his plan to steal her life. Once Rob had possessed Adele’s body, he deliberately administered a fatal heroin overdose to his own body containing Adele’s soul, which killed her. Rob-as-Adele then dumped his former body down the well on the grounds of the estate and took over Adele’s life, impersonating her, stealing her body, her money and her fiancé, David.

The short-haired Adele we know has always secretly been Rob. We’ve only seen the real Adele in flashbacks to her as a teenager in rehab. Unbeknownst to David, Adele has really been Rob throughout their ten-year marriage. 

Why did David stay?

Rob-as-Adele had made him collude in covering up Rob’s death, which he’d agreed to out of love for her, and to protect himself. Because Adele’s parents hadn’t approved of her relationship with David due to their social disparity, and because he stood to benefit greatly from the money she inherited when they died, David was investigated as a suspect in the fire that killed them. Rob-as-Adele told him that coming clean to the police about Rob’s overdose would once again cast suspicion on him, threatening his future. He would be implicated in the death because his watch (which Adele was wearing at the time) fell into the well along with the body. That’s why he reacted so badly to the forest mural Rob-as-Adele painted in their bedroom, it was a reminder of the secret they shared and why he could never leave her.

Why did Rob kill Adele?

He coveted everything about her life – her beauty, her money and the love she shared with David. After an unhappy and poverty-stricken childhood, Rob hated his life in Glasgow. He never knew his father, his mother died when he was young, he didn’t get on with his sister, and he nurtured a heroin habit that he didn’t want to kick. His time with Adele in rehab was the happiest he’d been, and he never wanted it to end. When Rob saw her country estate, met and instantly fell for her charming fiancé David, he wanted what Adele had, literally, and so using the supernatural powers she taught him, took it. 

Rob has been desperately trying to hold on to the spoils of Adele’s murder ever since, by keeping David in their unhappy marriage using intimidation tactics on anyone who threatens it – like café owner Marianne in Brighton, and his secretary Louise. 

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When did Rob-as-Adele plan to kill Louise?

Early on. Rob-as-Adele knew that David and Louise had kissed because he was spying on David’s office using astral projection when the two of them discussed it on David’s second day at work. Rob-as-Adele had made sure to visit David’s new office on his first day so that he could visualise it and therefore ‘travel’ there while asleep to spy on David. That’s why he engineered bumping into Louise outside Adam’s school (which Louise had pointed out to David on the local map in his office) and took her for coffee, instigating a friendship he could exploit. Rob-as-Adele also made an excuse to visit Louise’s flat, and while there, snooped around every room so that later, his travelling soul would be able to visit it to spy on her and – when the affair began in earnest – David. 

When, Rob-as-Adele learned that Louise also suffered from night terrors, he formulated a plan to teach her to lucid dream and astral project, with the eventual goal of taking over her body, as he’d done to Adele. He gave her his old notebook with the instructions on how to control dreams by thinking of a door etc. The last few pages had been ripped out because presumably, they contained Rob’s plan to swap bodies with Adele, which he didn’t want Louise to see. 

‘It all started with fire, so it’s fitting that’s how it ends’

When Louise wrote to the police officer who’d investigated David as a suspect in the Fairdale fire and shared her suspicion that he had killed Rob, it prompted David to go to Scotland and confess everything. Then he’d be free of Rob-as-Adele’s hold over him and could end the marriage to be with Louise. 

Realising this would spell the end of the marriage, Rob-as-Adele enacted a plan to steal Louise’s identity. He wrote Adele’s confession, fully exonerating David from Rob’s death, sent a suicide note-like text to Louise, started a fire and injected heroin. He was banking on Louise’s trauma over her own mother’s suicide driving her to the burning house, where she would try to astral project to see where Adele’s body was in the fire. Rob vacated Adele’s body and lay in wait for Louise’s soul. When he saw it enter the bedroom, his soul went downstairs and possessed Louise’s body. Louise’s soul entered Adele’s heroin-addled body, and was unable to fight back as Rob-as-Louise injected a fatal dose before dragging Louise-as-Adele downstairs and fake-weeping over her dead body. 

Where did Rob-as-Adele get the heroin?

He initially tried to buy it from dealers on a local estate, but was punched in the face, so he manipulated David’s addict patient Anthony into buying it by pretending to be a domestic abuse victim.

‘Maybe I’ve changed’

With David fully exonerated and having inherited all of Adele’s money, Rob married David for the second time, in Louise’s body. Her seven-year-old son Adam knew instantly that something was different about his mother, but David didn’t seem to notice a change. The new family was last seen just after the wedding, making honeymoon plans and driving towards another fresh start that’s not as fresh as it seemed.

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Ik heb zo'n vermoeden dat de trein en ik beste vrienden gaan worden. Vandaag moest ik werken in Den Haag. 5 uur trein voor 4 uur werk. Ik had m'n laptop bij me, maar in plaats daarvan las ik deze sprinter uit. En ja dat einde 😱!!! En toch had ik t al door op driekwart. Misschien moet ik thrillers gaan schrijven. #wtfthatending #meisjeindetrein #dag19

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February Favs: New Stories, Food Finds, Travel & Running

Can you believe it’s the last week of February ALREADY? How is that possible! It feels like time is both flying by, yet standing still. That said - it’s time for another round of favorites! February has been full of fun finds, including new TV shows, snacks, and books! 

What I’ve Been Reading:

Jonathan Unleashed: This was a quick read - enjoyable and light, about a guy coming of age in NYC, framed from the perspective of his temporary pets. It touches on love, life, career and how to go about knowing and choosing amongst those. Like I said - a quick read, enjoyed it over the weekend, and it had dogs, so you know I was a fan.

Born a Crime: This book was entirely different than I expected. While I knew it was about his childhood, I didn’t know that was ALL it was about. That said - still VERY powerful. I was just hoping for more around his transition from South Africa to the US, and how he ended up where he is today. Nevertheless, his history/childhood plays a very clear role in his current context. And if you know nothing of South Africa’s history with racism, Trevor covers the highlights.

Behind Her Eyes: This was just a fun read - another twisty, #WTFthatending kind of book. Think psychological thriller meets “hand that rocks the cradle.” It was quite reminiscent of a Liane Moriarty book. A bit confusing, interesting, all in all, a solid read. 

What I’ve Been Watching:

You know how much I love historical fiction TV shows... not books. Hate historical fiction books (historical FANTASY is different - i.e. time travel and magic are totally acceptable). But LOVE tv shows like The Crown, Downton Abbey, Poldark, etc. And now this - Victoria! The story of Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne as a young, impressionable 18-year-old. I’m pretty bummed it’s only an 8-part miniseries, but I guess it’ll do while I wait for Poldark and Outlander to come back...

You know I’m a loyal #TGIT-er. And I’m pretty stoked they all got picked up for another renewed season. GREYS ANATOMY FOREVER.

What I’ve Been Eating:

HAVE YOU TRIED THESE? Because they’re ADDICTIVE AS HELL. Therefore, I’ve gone through a bag a week. I’ve had to stop buying them just to give myself a shot.

Since I’m off dairy-ish, I’ve transitioned my breakfasts from normal yogurts to sheep milk yogurt and I quite frankly am digging it. Tangy-er. Tastier. Fruity-er. And just so you don’t make the same mistake I did... when you buy a delicious Bellwether Farms yogurt, make sure you stir it... otherwise, you eat the entire thing, and wonder why it looks and tastes just like vanilla until you get to the bottom and see a pile of delicious blackberry puree and end up upset you wasted such deliciousness. it only happened once, I swear.

Can I just say I HATE security at airports? They always take my best snacks. Which all happen to be either yogurt or dip like. But still. Really, you think my Bellwether Farm’s yogurt from above is going to kill you? Or better yet, you think my FROZEN tub of Bitchin Sauce is going to take down the plane? Ugh.

Anyways, I stumbled upon this stuff at a very cute Farmer’s Market in San Diego, bought a tub, froze it, only to have it thrown away at security. So when I came home, I searched high and low, didn’t find it, and recreated it via multiple google searches. IT’S WORTH IT. Delicious on corn chips, on sandwiches, basically on anything you’d eat hummus with... but better. And, made with Almonds!

What Else I’ve Been Up To:

So I started running again. It’s been rough, mainly because I lose interest 20 minutes in... it’s really making my goal of getting back into 10ks a lot harder. BUT on the flip side, we got a treadmill and Josha put it together, so now I can hang out in my garage instead of having to drive to the gym or run in the rain. #WIN. 

We’re running the Oregon Humane Society Doggie Dash on May 13th, so if you’re interested in doing the same, join our team - Doodles for Days - to help fundraise and support animal adoption.

Our weekend spent in San Diego was AWESOME. We did all things you are told to do when visiting SD, including the San Diego Zoo, the USS Midway, Balboa Park, ate tacos, went antiquing and hit Del Mar Beach at sunset. Despite the weather being a total sh*t show, we had aweosme company, awesome food and an awesome good time.

What I’m Looking Forward To:

More TV. Duh. The Handmaid’s tale looks awesome, it’s a Hulu Original and is a historical fiction. Win Win Win.

Yes, I’m back at it. I’ve started the 4th book of the Outlander Series - The Fiery Cross. I’m reading and listening my way through it to keep me engaged and happy about Outlander, despite the DROUGHTlander we’re in until SEPTEMBER when the latest season comes out. WTF Starz. Could you make us wait any longer?!

Another book I’m reading now that it’s March is The American Way of Eating and let me tell you - it’s opening my eyes to things. It’s also making me realize how blessed I am to have a pretty great grocery store within walking distance, and numerous farmers markets available to us in the spring and summer. Let’s just say this book is going to be the catalyst for a few food changes, starting with local milk, in glass recyclable bottles.

This book is apparently hilarious and I need to read it before HBO comes out with the TV version.

And this is on my “watch list” for this month. Projector + Movie + Dog + Couch + Cup of Tea + Cookies on a Thursday night = a WIN in my book.

What are you looking forward to this month?

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Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough, reviewed by @dvaleris who would have liked it a lot better if it had been marketed as the supernatural thriller that it is.

About 60% of the way through this book, I thought, “Wtf, this isn’t going to be about what I think it is, is it?” and then it fucking was. And while I was okay with the events that led to the book garnering its own #WTFThatEnding, I was legitimately pissed with how the book has been marketed as a “suspenseful psychological thriller.” That is utter bollocks. This book is a “suspenseful paranormalt…

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Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough // Review

NEW REVIEW: Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough - DON'T TRUST THIS BOOK. #wtfthatending x

Title: Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough Rating: ★★★★★ Release: 26th January 2017 Synopsis: Louise – Since her husband walked out, Louise has made her son her world, supporting them both with her part-time job. But all that changes when she meets… David – Young, successful and charming – Louise cannot believe a man like him would look at her twice let alone be attracted to her. But that all…

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Today it is my absolute pleasure to welcome the fabulously lovely Lorraine from The Book Review Cafe to the blog to share her #bookloves. I love Lorraine’s blog and she is a totally wonderful lady and supportive book blogger too. Here is a little more about the lady herself.

About Lorraine

My name is Lorraine and I love books and coffee so there was only one thing to call my blog. I love reading and always have a book or my kindle in my hand, and more often than not a cup of good coffee. I especially enjoy reading Crime and psychological thrillers and these are the books I mostly review on my blog.

I started my blog in late August 2015 when I was off work after suffering an injury at work, I was bored one day and decided to start up a book blog. I never really thought about where my blog would lead, and never in a million years did I think any one would end up reading it, let alone follow me! or that I would be in contact with some of my favourite authors

I work full time so my life is pretty hectic, but I always find time to read and review books, although I do get frustrated that I am unable to read as much as I would like. My dream job would be reading and reviewing books from home with a cup of coffee in my hand (not sure if such a job exists, but I did say dream job!)

You can follow Lorraine on Twitter, Facebook and on her brilliant blog The Book Review Cafe.

Childhood Sweetheart Favourite book from childhood

It would have to be the Ladybird books especially the well loved tales series. I used to read them time and time again, and years later I read them to my son. Every time I see a Ladybord cover I get all nostalgic.

First love The first book you fell in love with

I would have to say the Peter and Jane reading books (the more mature readers cough, cough! will remember these.) I learnt to read using these books and from then on I just read and read! Again every time I see one of these books I get all nostalgic.

Biggest book crush The book character you’re totally in love with

Hmmmm I’m not sure I’ve ever had a book crush on a character, does that make me weird? Now you’ve really got me thinking here I guess the closest I’ve gotten to a crush is Edward Cullen from the Twighlight series.

Weirdest book crush Well… duh

Again very different to my normal reads but I absolutely loved the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead, there were six books in the series and I read them back to back, I became obsessed with all things vampire 😂

Hardest break up The book you didn’t want to end

The Mountain In My Shoe Louise Beech I soooo loved this book it has so many elements that made it such a special read, characters, settings, the attention to detail, the workings of the foster system all make this book something extra special. Louise Beech describes both characters and settings with such conviction the pages of this story come to life, and it really was a book that I didn’t want to end.

The one that got away The book in your TBR or wish list that you regret not having started yet.

Sealskin by Su Bristow I really need to read this book, as I have only ever read glowing reviews about this book and it sounds very different to my usual type of read.

Secret love Guilty Reading pleasure

As any one who follows my blog will know I’m a huge crime and psychological thriller love and I would say 98% of the books I read fit this genre, but every now and then when I get fed up with serial killers and twists I always turn to the awesome Christie Barlow her books aren’t just your usual RomCom this author provides the reader with so much more, her books have hidden depth, the dialogue is refreshing and superbly written and her characters are so well developed they feel like old friends by the time you reach the end of one of her books.

Love one, love them all Favourite series or genre

You can’t beat a great crime series but there are so many that deserve a mention Robert Bryndza, Chris Carter, Angela Marsons, Peter James I could go on and on here���..they’ve all written fabulous series and all very different to each other. I’m a sucker for a good crime series

Your latest squeeze Favourite read of the last 12 months

A Suitable Lie by Michael J Malone I absolutely loved this book I wasn’t sure what I expected but this book blew me away. The author has written a book that is both profound and insightful and brings a very little talked about subject into the open. I don’t feel comfortable saying I enjoyed this book considering the subject matter, what I will say is it’s beautifully written, heartbreaking and very realistic.

Blind date for a friend If you were to set a friend up with a blind date (book) which one would it be?

It’s got to be Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough the book with #WTFthatending, it’s a book that seriously messes with your head, and I love that it’s one that can be hugely debated as you either love or hate the ending.

Greatest love of all Favourite book of all time.

I would probably have to say Papillion by Henri Charrière, as it’s one of the few books I’ve read again and again. It’s an autobiographical novel about a man who in 1931 was charged with killing someone and he was sentenced to a life of hard labor at a penal colony in French Guiana. Fascinating stuff!

…

Thanks Lorraine. Some brilliant choices in there but then I am eually as obsessed with all things crime and thriller so that’s probably not much of a shock now is it ;). You absolutely must read Sealskin. I think you’ll love it. And I remember the Peter and Jane books very well. Of course they were clearly a hand me down from my much older siblings …

What do you think folks? Agree with Lorraine’s choices. Was Behind Her Eyes your Marmite book? I personally loved it. What did you think?

Do join me next week when I’ll have more #booklove to share, this time from Louise Walters and Abbie Rutherford.

Have a brilliant weekend all

JL

#BookLove: Lorraine Rugman @ReviewCafe Today it is my absolute pleasure to welcome the fabulously lovely Lorraine from The Book Review Cafe to the blog to share her #bookloves.

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Review: Behind Her Eyes  by Sarah Pinborough My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I read BEHIND HER EYES a few months ago when I received the paper ARC unexpectedly in my mail. Thank you Flatiron Books! I appreciate the hard work that you do to promote new authors and new books. Having said that, I am always a bit leery of books that are sent out to the social media world with such grandiosity and heavy-handed publicity. Can't a great book get footing on its own? Sadly, maybe not. Oh well, never mind that thought. I am somewhat of a realist, but I'm open-minded and curious about subjects like lucid dreaming, mainly for the psychological aspects that may pertain to a murder mystery. You are led as a reader to think this book is traveling the byways of memories, dreams, affairs and murders. The pages fly fast and I was so involved in this story - until the abrupt end. The publishers strongly encouraged all the ARC readers discuss the book with the hype-y #WTFthatending. Well, I guess that is an appropriate hashtag, but it goes either way. I detest the ending. Talk about a cheap gimmick!!!!  It's like having your mouth all set for a T-bone steak and then watching it morph right on the grill into a flimsy slice of frozen pizza. I know there are thousands of reviews out there on this book and my opinion appears to be in the minority. Don't care. Don't care. I do not like it here nor there. I'm not gonna lie, the ending was like a sucker punch to the gut! I actually got angry. I tossed the book on the floor and didn't even bother writing a review for it. I felt used and abused as a reader. So I'm writing this review now with time and distance between me and that book and I still don't like the ending. Don't get me wrong. I love plot twists. Plausible plot twists! Heck, I want SHE LOVED PLOT TWISTS written on my tombstone. Not only that, but BEHIND HER EYES has a couple of unreliable narrators- my absolute favorite literary device! How could all these elements be in this one book, yet go so wrong? The ending of this book is more of a deus ex machina than a plot twist. Deus ex machina is a Latin term meaning "god out of the machine." It refers to an unexpected, artificial or improbable character, device or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction to resolve a situation or untangle a plot. It is disappointing to me that a writer of Sarah Pinborough's caliber would end a great story with a cheap plot device. There is barely a hint of where the book is going until the last few pages and then ridiculously, hideously its over. This is crazy town, folks. 

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rhia reviews: Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

rhia reviews: BEHIND HER EYES by Sarah Pinborough

I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I don’t like to say, “this book is the next… whatever” but this really is up there with GONE GIRL and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN. There’s not a lot to say about this without giving away the entire plot. The tagline #WTFthatending really is appropriate because… WTF?! That ending?! BEHIND HER EYES is a fantastic…