The Unraveling A Novel

Branching out of the Romance Genre

Daniela St. aus Brandenburg am 23.07.2024
Bewertungsnummer: 2251435
Bewertet: eBook (ePUB)

A complete different genre for Vi Keeland. I was excited how this departure towards the thriller genre will be for my liking. Based on the blurb, I roughtly knew, what to expect, but still the beginning of the story, was a little bit hard to get into it. Not that it was badly written, but more this very personal view from Meredith, made it a little bit hard to orient myself in the story. As it was relatively fragmented or desorientating to understand a clear path of the story. Which makes sense, that Meredith IS disorientated, as she has just lost her husband to a tragic car accident (which he was responsible of) and she has to manage her day-to-day life. Like a leaf in the wind she is transported this way or that way, as are her thoughts. Sometimes even circling, which also was kind of clever writing wise. At the beginning I was somewhat assuming, maybe the story is more towards Romantic Suspense, than Thriller, but I was wrong, eventhough there were maybe one or two spicy scenes in place, but never a real love story. As a reader, we only really get to know Meredith, what she things and feels, after her loss and her guild to be somewhat responsible additionally for the death of a mother and her child, as those two were also victims of her husbands car accident. One day she randomly crosses paths with the husband of the killed women, and apparently he seems happy or at least not grieving anymore for his lost family, which is not understandable for Meredith. So she starts to follow him to understand, how he managed to overcome his grief. Until one day, suddenly Gabriel is her patient in her practice (she is a psychotherapist). The lines between patrient and doctor seems to blur, the distance Meredith should have as a doctor to her patient seem to vanish and she starts a dangerous game. Even though it was hard for me to get into the story, after a while there was such a big pull of the story, which made it hard to pause or put the book away. And those twists and turns towards the end. were amazing and cleverly made.

Such a good psychological thriller

Katsbookshelf am 30.06.2024
Bewertungsnummer: 2234056
Bewertet: eBook (ePUB)

The Unraveling is Vi Keeland‘s debut psychological thriller and after reading and loving her romance books, I was so excited for this book.   I only read thriller’s every now and then and I feel like this is a good start for someone who has never read a thriller but simultaneously for everyone who enjoys thrillers. I feel like this book is best to go in blind and the twists and turns are very surprising and shocking the least you know.   Our protagonist Meredith is a psychiatrist and she had it all from a hockey player husband and they wanted to start a family together. Until this all shattered through an accident. It was really cool to see how you get chapters from the past and in the present and the way all of this was connected was done beyond well.   One of her new patients is Gabriel who is a literary professor. They feel an attraction towards each other, and it’s not only forbidden because of the doctor-patient-dynamic but also because of their past. The story includes trauma, grief, stalking, secrets, romantic and spicy moments and above all twists and turns that I didn’t see coming and led to Meredith’s unraveling. The writing and plot were compelling and enthralling and I was sucked into this story very easily and couldn’t put it down.   Overall, The Unraveling is such a good thriller and I hope to see more from this genre from Vi Keeland. 4 stars.   (ARC kindly provided in exchange for a review.)