Looking Glass Sound

Talk about a psychological thriller that makes you work! One really needs to be on their game while reading or listening to this book! There were several times in this book where I questioned if I really knew what was happening. This is a book about a book within a book. Whew!

Wilder Harlow is in a cottage in Maine writing the last book he will ever write. He is writing about the summer when he was a teenager when he made two friends while a killer was stalking the small New England town. It is about their gruesome discovery of a body. It is also about his ex-best friend, Sky who stole Wilder’s unfinished memoir and published it as Looking Glass Sound. Fact and fiction blurs as Wilder finds notes from Sky and wonders if he what is real.

Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? Yet, it is complicated, demands 100% attention, is twist filled, and turns the tables on readers many times during the book. Throughout the book, I kept wondering what was going on, thinking I had things figured out, to have the tables turned on me. Like Wilder, I began to wonder what was real, puzzled by what was happening and frustrated that I could not figure things out.

This is an intricately woven book that kept me on my toes. Catriona Ward does a brilliant job keeping readers (at least this reader) in the dark, yet wanting more, and yearning for answers. Her writing is fabulous, and this book is very well thought out. I had no idea where she was going at any part of the book, yet I was invested in the story wanting to know how it would end. Very impressive!

Well written, well thought out, brilliant, and unsettling.

Thank you to Tor Publishing Group, Tor Nightfire, Macmillan Audio and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.