Behind Her Eyes
Ratings167
Average rating3.7
4.5✨ find my full thoughts in my latest reading vlog where i tried to predict the twists before they happened! https://youtu.be/VrIYkdfqhxg
I enjoyed parts but holy crap Louise, use some common sense. Stop hanging out with the crazy couple that is ruining your life.
I loved the last minute twist but the whole book was so frustrating.
Here's the deal. This book was really interesting. Good characters. Interesting story. Kept me turning the pages. It was captivating, for sure. Never really knowing what was going on.
The. End. Was. Unexpected.
Like wild. But not too far fetched. So crazy. And also makes you think. And it makes you kinda sick. And it kinda blew my mind.
I gave it 4 stars because I try to reserve 5 stars for books I think I'll re read, and knowing the twist I'm not gonna re read it. . . But it's totally worth the read. Really great book.
Definitely recommend.
The only reason this got two stars is because of the last chapter. It was the ONLY thing I didn't see ahead of time in this very long, frustrating, predictable book.
I just finished Behind Her eyes by Sarah Pinborough, all because of the netflix show... Here are my musings.
Louise is a single mom and doesn't spend a lot of time doing things for herself until one night, she meets a man in a bar. They kiss, the kind of earth shattering connection that makes you weak at the knees. Trouble is when she arrives at work the next day to find out he is her new boss... and he is married.
The attraction is palatable and although David and Adele's marriage looks perfect on the outside, something is very wrong between them. As she becomes closer to. David and Adele, she can't help digging into their lives and she has no idea the lengths a person will go to protect their marriage.
I saw the limited series on Netflix and had no idea it was a book and me being me.. I had to check it out! The book follows the tv show pretty closely so hats off for that but the book was better. I felt I understood the how, who and the why thanks to the book!
Louise is your average single mom and she can't help falling for David. You want to hate David for cheating but without spoiling anything, you will see the why by the end!
There are so many things I want to say but I don't want to spoil it! It is so good! The ending, even though I already knew, still felt like a shock! You won't see it coming and this book is my kind of psychological thriller! It wasn't as fast faced as I like my thrillers normally, but it packs a wallop in the best kind of ways!
I loved it. It's got some really excellent elements to it and I am jumping up and down urging you to read it.
5 million stars!!! Excellent writing! Utter genius.
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Disappointing... so many people raved about this book.
The ending was well...unbelievable.
4.5 i had to sit on my rating for a bit but this was the craziest ending of a book i have ever read
Having already seen the show kinda ruined this book for me lol but I still enjoyed it
The only thing that kinda didn't work out for me is the paranormal part, I didn't expect that in this book.
But I liked it, took me by surprise
OH YOU JUST PISSED ME AWF SO BAD if i had a physical copy of this book i'd beat the shit out of it for fun. cheers to slogging through a predictable but decent enough domestic thriller only to have it spit on you with last-minute twists that fall back on tired homophobic tropes/scare tactics. glad to see we all still hate gay men this much. i don't think i've ever been this angry at a book. sarah pinborough you flop ass bitch give me my time and energy i spent on this back
It has taken me some time to figure out what I wanted to say about this book. It came out 5 years ago so I'm definitely behind on this one. I see why it was an international bestseller. It is compulsive reading, keeping you guessing the entire time. Mind games, manipulation and an ending that defies all convention. I saw another review that said Sarah (the author) slaps you in the face. That is accurate. 5 stars because I had no idea what was going on and I loved it.
Saw the twist at the 50% mark. Fairly generic & annoying characters (especially Louise) sums up this book.
Wow! WoW! WOW! what an ending. I was happy enough through out the book, but the ending just floored me
This book was bat-shit crazy and had me confused most of the time. Like the overall plot was a typical thriller but the big twist and even bigger twist were just insane. Also there was no one to root for as the main character was very unlikeable and just made the stupidest, unrealistic decisions.
I didn't like that there was nothing to guess at leading up to the reveal - and there don't really seem to be clues along the way. It feels like they came up with a twist and then just added it to the last 20 pages.
Wow! Finally, I read this book! I have been hearing people talk about this book for the longest time and about this crazy ending and now I am psyched to be in the loop, to know what everyone is talking about! I am actually watching the show now with my husband and really enjoying it but I am glad that I read the book first because I was entertained to say the least. I wouldn't say that it's my favorite domestic thriller of all time but it definitely delivers on the mindfuck aspect! That is for sure! This twist was something akin to the twist in The Silent Patient but even crazier and more out there! Definitely will be reading more from this new to me author in the future.
To begin with, Behind Her Eyes is about a single mom, named Louise, who has a passionate night with a stranger at a bar and then realizes the next day that this stranger is her new boss and is also married to a beautiful woman named Adele. Their lives intertwine and head in a direction that almost no-one can possibly see coming. I have never read a domestic thriller quite like this and was definitely intrigued from the very beginning. There is a trope in this book that is very new to me and I thoroughly enjoyed it, even though I have no other previous books to compare it to and see if it was done well. I thought the book started off very strong and it got my attention but the middle dragged a bit for me and that's where I started losing interest and hoping to get to the mind blowing ending soon, that everyone kept talking about. Unfortunately, it took until the very end to get to that mind-blowing ending and all the action was saved for the very conclusion as well. For this reason, I gave this book four stars and not five.
Further on, the characterization in this book was pretty good, nothing I can complain about. I liked getting to know all the characters and their complicated backgrounds and figuring out what made them the way that they are and the way that they relate to one another. I just wish we could have gotten to the very dark, sinful stuff a little earlier because it felt like it took forever to really show us who these people really were, at their very rotten cores and souls. I do applaud the author for not being afraid to go there though and to show us how humans really are, without sugarcoating or hiding anything.
Finally, the writing style is one that I had no problem with. It wasn't the most intricate or beautiful writing I've ever read but it got the story across without a hitch and the pages didn't stop turning until the very last page. There were a few awkward thoughts and sentences but those were very few and didn't take away from the overall story and reading experience.
In conclusion, I enjoyed this domestic thriller very much and would recommend it to anyone that wants to have their mind blown by a twist or twists that they didn't see coming. I wouldn't say it's rooted in reality but if you're willing to suspend your reality for a bit, this book could really wow you in many ways. It could have definitely been shortened a bit in order to pack more of a punch throughout the whole book itself, nonetheless, it's a book I will probably think about for years to come. Definitely recommend but with a grain of salt because it might not be for absolutely everyone.
Very weird. Very bizarre. I enjoyed the supernatural aspect to it, but I totally understand why people didn't like it because it is not realistic.
Although not totally sure how I felt about the fact that it was Rob in Adele's body the whole time - uncomfortable but also like whatttttt.
Last ~10 pages made this go from a 3 to a 3.5 star...... but wtf..... I can't tell if I enjoyed this or not? Like it was entertaining but also. ???????? :-