Hey my lovelies, today's book review is of Mirror Image by Michele Pariza Wacek, which was provided to me thanks to Worldwind Book Tours and Michele Pariza Wacek.
Author: Michele Pariza Wacek
Publisher: Love-Based Publishing
Pub. Date: May 28th 2016
Date Read: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Pages: 272
Rating:4/5 stars
Goodreads Summary: Which would be worse, knowing that your dead sister has come back to life and is now a serial killer or that someone else is the killer….and that person is you? Six months after Linda's sister Elizabeth killed herself, Linda has finally gotten her life back to some semblance of normalcy. Until a killer appears who is stalking men ... a killer who resembles Elizabeth ... a killer who seems somehow familiar to Linda. And, to make matters worse, Steve, her old high school crush and now a detective, is assigned to this case. He's asking Linda all sorts of questions, questions Linda couldn't possibly have an answer to. There's no reason for him to be investigating Linda. She couldn't possibly have anything to do with this. Could she?
Mirror Image follows our main character Linda, who is not
exactly having the good life she hoped for. She came from an abusive home, and
her sister, Elizabeth committed suicide earlier this year, leaving no body
behind. Due to her sister’s death, part of her feels guilt for never noticing
anything wrong, and also relief due to the trials and tribulations that she put
her through as both a child and an adult. Due to all of this Linda’s health is
on a downward spiral, causing her to significantly lose weight and for her
mental health to decrease. Which cause her to have blackouts, where hours
disappear, causing her to have no idea where she has been or what she has
done. And when men are getting murdered
in her town and she starts seeing the dead men in her nightmares, she can’t
help but freak out. And when a former friend turned detective arrives back in
time and starts asking questions, which Linda doesn’t want to know the answers
to, she can’t help but get more stressed.
Mirror Image is not a long book, however it took me quite a
while to get into it, however as soon as I was about 60% in, I was hooked and
couldn’t put it down. I loved the tension the book created, as it even left me
guessing on what the genre really was. The writing was overall good, and I
thought the point of view change on the chapters was quite refreshing, as the
book was predominately in Linda’s point of view, however every few chapters
there would be a character from different points in Elizabeth and Linda’s life,
giving further insight into their lives and what Elizabeth really was like as a
child. And another point is that I did not guess the plot twist at the very
end, which recently I have been doing an awful lot of. One of the only negatives I have for this
book is that there was some unanswered questions at the end, these could be
simply due to me missing the part or it was meant to be left open.
Overall, I really enjoyed the book as I really enjoyed the writing and hopefully I shall be reading more of Michele Pariza Wacek's books in the future.
About the Author
When Michele was 3 years old, she taught herself
to read because she wanted to write stories so badly.
As you can imagine, writing has been a driving
passion throughout her life. She became a professional copywriter (which is
writing promotional materials for businesses), which led to her founding a
copywriting and marketing company that serves clients all over the world.
Along with being a copywriter, she also writes
novels (in fact, she just published her first novel, a psychological
thriller/suspense/mystery called “The Stolen Twin” and her second novel “Mirror
Image'” is set to be published in May 2016) plus, she is also the author of the
“Love-Based Copy” books, which are a part of the “Love-Based Business” series
and cover both business and personal development.
She holds a double major in English and
Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently she lives in
the mountains of Prescott, Arizona with her husband Paul and her border collie
Nick and southern squirrel hunter Cassie.
Recommend...
I would recommend this to anyone who likes psychological thrillers with hints of the supernatural and a whole lot of suspense.
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Thank you to Michele Pariza Wacek and Worldwind Virtual Book Tours for the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
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