published: january 11, 2022
source: purchased
rating:★★★✩✩
from goodreads:
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, Chloe’s father had been arrested as a serial killer and promptly put in prison. Chloe and the rest of her family were left to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.
Now 20 years later, Chloe is a psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. She finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to get. Sometimes, though, she feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. And then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back. 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?
my review: a lot of murder mysteries are told from either the killers point of view or the victims, having this one being told from a different perspective, the psychologist daughter of a “killer”, it was different and a nice change. it was also very interesting to see the serial killer persona from not only the familial aspect, but from the psychologist aspect as well.i couldn’t put this book down. i find books that have a past and present view are hard to follow but that wasn’t the case for this one. you could easily decipher where each event was taking place and it made you understand some things on a deeper level.
a flicker in the dark starts off slow, i didn’t think i was gonna be reeled in but the miniscule details have you wondering what happens next. a lot of people said it was very predictable but i believe the latter, i did not expect what was coming AT ALL. throughout the whole book i had my suspicions on who did what and how it all went down, but boy was i wrong. i started to hate a couple of the characters because i was so certain that they were at fault. the twists and turns of this book will have you on the edge of your seat up until the very end. i didn’t want to believe what turned out the be the truth and what measures some people will go to protect the ones they love. or how people will take for granted the second chances that not many have the opportunity of experiencing.
favorite quotes:
“Maybe this is karma, I wonder. I got a shitty family, so now I get a perfect husband.”
“ If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
