BOOK REVIEW: THE DARKEST CORNERS BY KARA THOMAS

The Darkest Corners

by Kara Thomas

Hardcover, 336 pages

Expected Publication April 19th 2016

MY GOODREADS RATING 5/5 STARS

(Thanks to Random House Children’s Delacorte Press and NetGalley, I received an ebook copy of this book for free to review.)

GOODREADS SYNOPSIS:

“For fans of Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places and Sara Shepard’s Pretty Little Liars, The Darkest Corners is a psychological thriller about the lies little girls tell, and the deadly truths those lies become.

    There are ghosts around every corner in Fayette, Pennsylvania. Tessa left when she was nine and has been trying ever since not to think about it after what happened there that last summer. Memories of things so dark will burn themselves into your mind if you let them.

    Callie never left. She moved to another house, so she doesn’t have to walk those same halls, but then Callie always was the stronger one. She can handle staring into the faces of her demons—and if she parties hard enough, maybe one day they’ll disappear for good.

    Tessa and Callie have never talked about what they saw that night. After the trial, Callie drifted and Tessa moved, and childhood friends just have a way of losing touch.

    But ever since she left, Tessa has had questions. Things have never quite added up. And now she has to go back to Fayette—to Wyatt Stokes, sitting on death row; to Lori Cawley, Callie’s dead cousin; and to the one other person who may be hiding the truth.

    Only the closer Tessa gets to the truth, the closer she gets to a killer—and this time, it won’t be so easy to run away.”

MY THOUGHTS:

I have to admit that the synopsis of this book is thrilling! It’s what made me NEED to read it, and let me tell you it did not disappoint. This book was extremely fast paced and kept me guessing the whole way through. The twists and turns start right at the beginning of the book and I loved it. I was hooked from the first chapter. I felt like I was on a roller coaster ride throughout the entire story. My stomach dropped way too many times to count because I just didn’t see things coming. I questioned all my hypothesis the whole way through and it was just excellent.

I like that the two main characters lost touch for a while, because when they reconnected their friendship I felt like I was there witnessing it first hand. It made their friendship feel very genuine.

Overall I really loved this book and would recommend it to any reader that likes mysterious thrillers. I have to admit I was a bit sad to have the story end. It was one of those books that draw you in from beginning to end.