Ill will

Ill will

2017 • 461 pages

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Average rating3.8

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I just finished this yesterday and have some thoughts!
I can see how this is described as a thriller/crime but I feel like it very easily dips into horror just in how it makes you feel. Throughout this book I could just feel this pit in my stomach grow as I knew things just weren't going to change for any of our characters.

~spoilery things below because I just want to talk about this book while it takes over my brain~
It was a ride to go from trusting Dustin as our thought to be reliable narrator to introducing other perspectives. It was so just well executed with the unravelling of his memories. I thought at one point Kate had planted even more ideas about what Rusty had done - but nope - it was real.Jill momentarily held him together but in a lot of ways Dustin was destined for coming undone. Jill also didn't ask him to confront and work through his experiences. So in turn the life that they were living was so delicately held together.