Book Review #111: The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
I was looking forward to reading this book. I didn't love Michaelides' first book, 'The Silent Patient', but I enjoyed the twist and knew that I definitely wanted to read another of his works. Mariana is grieving. When she gets a call about a murder on her old university campus she travels to Cambridge to support her niece, pushing back thoughts of her late husband. But when Mariana gets to Cambridge and meets Edward Fosca, everything becomes clear - he is a murderer, and she has to prove it before he strikes again. This book wasn't great. A few problems I had with it were similar to the problems I had with 'The Silent Patient', but this book also comes with its own problems too! There was too much description of things I didn't care about, and things that didn't move the story forward. Setting the scene is great, but beyond that, I would have preferred more plot points than pointless descriptions. Much of the story is centred around Mariana's gr...