2/25/2024 0 Comments Dark of night book coverSome other random thoughts: they find Valium in the first victim's hair follicles approximately two seconds after they find the body. Our girl talks about having done all of this since college (10-12 years?) - this is your tolerance? LEAVE THIS PARTY RIGHT NOW. Two glasses of wine after a xanax, and you wake up not remembering what happened? Two xanax and you lose a DAY AND A HALF? This is some amateur shit right here. You're worried ONE xanax is going to muck up your day? If you're really an addict, you'd have to take half the bottle to even notice you took anything. I work with lawyers and criminal defendants, and ALL of us are taking benzos legally or illegally and in much higher quantities than Princess Chloe here. Thompson than most, but this D & A problem ain't really that bad. At least you can call in prescriptions in his name! (Apparently psychologists can do that in Louisiana -solidifying the decision to set the book here, because this girl would have never made it through medical school).Įlevator music drug and alcohol problem: Look, I realize I'm more Hunter S. Dude disappears all the time and you never really bother to ask where he is or what he's doing. (Didn't your father's victims die by choking? Huh. He unilaterally decides to throw in a little surprise choking during some nice, relaxing morning sex. Yep, let's discuss Ken-doll: he throws you surprise parties even though he knows you freak out about everything. Your Ken-doll fiancé - yeah, you didn't have to reveal nothing, because other people know how the internet works. Girlfriend, have you heard of Google? Everybody knows you. Those efforts include the following: not changing her name, moving an hour away from her hometown, giving an interview on how her serial killer father inspired her career, ETC. She's the daughter of a notorious serial killer, and she's done everything she can to separate herself from that life. Where to even start with this book? Chloe Davis, the human equivalent of hold music, is very deeply damaged. Which one do you think came first - the doctor designation, or the dusty, useless piece of paper my mom put in a frame? Hmm. I'd like to call this an editorial error, but I think the main character is actually this stupid. "I'm hoping to pursue my PhD here next fall - then, eventually get my master's." However, given that the story has already been optioned by Emma Stone, I don't think the author will be weeping into her labradoodle's fur over my piddly little review. I almost always give even the shittiest books at least two stars because the author I'm bashing wrote words and got them published. In a debut novel that has already been optioned for a limited series by actress Emma Stone and sold to a dozen countries around the world, Stacy Willingham has created an unforgettable character in a spellbinding thriller that will appeal equally to fans of Gillian Flynn and Karin Slaughter. Is she paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren't really there, or for the second time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer? And then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Sometimes, though, she feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. She finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to get. Now 20 years later, Chloe is a psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. Chloe and the rest of her family were left to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. By the end of the summer, Chloe’s father had been arrested as a serial killer and promptly put in prison. When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town.
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