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It’s been said that the pace is a little slow, I didn’t notice that as I read this mostly (or should I say, listened to it mostly) on audio. Wasn't a huge fan of the twist near the end, I thought it was a little obvious, but there's some interesting things that happen toward the end of this book that I didn't expect, that is wild and a little ridiculous like some of this authors other books, but still a really fun time. This never became a truly horrifying novel but remained an entirely thrilling and intriguing one, throughout. The story line seemed to be going in one direction, but, as usual, in an effort to come up with a spectacular twist, all credibility went out the window towards the end. Even worse, she had spent the first five years of Emma’s life warning her that she would lose hers as well.
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Emma feels like everyone is out to get her from her sister, to her husband, no one is spared her inability to be rational.
When Emma’s mother turned 40, she lost her mind…and now, as Emma’s own 40th birthday approaches, she begins to fear the very same thing might be happening to her. She might be appear to have it all with a successful career as a lawyer and a husband and two kids, but she also had a rough childhood. Crime by the Box will deliver a hand-selected, newly-released hardcover mystery, thriller, or suspense novel right to your door on a monthly basis. INSOMNIA uses a “ticking clock” structure—the countdown to Emma’s birthday—combined with Emma’s increasingly fraught mental state to ratchet up the tension page by page. Even though two of her books are problematic AF towards the gay community, I still was interested in reading Sarah Pinborough's upcoming psychological thriller, Insomnia.
Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough | Goodreads Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough | Goodreads
Even a new, fresh out of school law clerk should have known this one and turned the client away at the door before she ever made it into Emma's office!For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. I also liked Emma (although her character was perhaps a bit cliché - exhausted professional mother with a seemingly perfect house husband. We’re on a countdown to her birthday and that’s a rollercoaster ride as we hurtle towards it with a number of serious incidents accumulating and careening Emma to the edge of a mentally destructive precipice.
Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough | Goodreads
When Emma was a child, she witnessed the disintegration of her own mother’s mental state as her mother stopped sleeping in the weeks leading up to her 40th birthday, and ultimately suffered a psychotic break and violently attacked Emma’s sister as a result. The author combines all the elements of a typical love triangle and the story of the marriage that no one seems to understand with some weird suspenseful plot twisting. Readers looking for a tense, edge-of-your-seat, seriously dark psychological thriller will find INSOMNIA to be just the book they needed. Sarah lives in the historic town of Stony Stratford, the home of the Cock and Bull story, with her dog Ted. Her mother had a similar experience at the same age, suffering a violent psychotic breakdown on the night of her 40th birthday.The big Four-O is quickly approaching, and no one is more anxious about her birthday than Emma Averell. INSOMNIA—available today in the US—is one of the most genuinely unsettling and utterly gripping psychological thrillers I’ve read in ages, and it’s sure to be one of my favorite books of 2022. You cast a wide net of suspicion and there are several characters that give you more than just cause. Throughout this book, Emma is constantly questioning herself and her sanity, and wondering who is working against her.
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She has already been experiencing sleepless nights, and Phoebe tells Emma that she has the same “bad blood” as their mother. Because thirty-five years ago her mother quite literally lost her mind on the cusp of her own fortieth birthday.She is slowly losing time and is compelled to do the same things her mother did right before she went mad. This is most assuredly one of those reads, and a few times, as much as I enjoyed the book, I just wanted it to end (if that makes sense! The slowness 🐢 of the story, combined with the constant whining of the main character really was a deterrent to the story. Once I had done so, I could only applaud Pinborough for her repeated ingenuity and the different elements she brings to the genres she pens in.
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