This is for anyone seeking a path through our confusing lives and offers inspiration for tapping into the strength and comfort around us and releasing the blocks and insecurities that hold us back. From intuition and energy to manifesting, ritual, prayer and signs, I have explored positive ideas and simple exercises that are available to every single one of us. With their help, I peeled back layers of anxiety and self-limiting beliefs to find contentment and deeper meaning. I sought the insight and advice of wise minds to explore what they can teach us to achieve happiness, connection and hope. However, I reduced a star as I didn’t really understand the purpose/motivation behind the murders and the reasoning for them just didn’t click for me. A lot of twists and turns throughout, and I didn’t expect the ending at all. I will admit, this wasn’t as good as The Silent Patient but there was a little Easter egg thrown in to this book to link The Silent Patient which I enjoyed. My rating: ★★★★Īs the same author of The Silent Patient, I have had Alex Michaelides’ newest release on my list for a long time and was thrilled to find it in my local library. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana’s niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. But I strangely found myself wanting to keep reading to see how many more pills her eccentric psychiatrist would keep prescribing to her and what would become of her year of rest and blackouts.Įdward Fosca is a murderer. I did find it quite hard to sympathise with her as she lived in an apartment in the Upper East Side of New York with no money worries whatsoever and no responsibilities (one could only dream). As the title would suggest, the story really does follow the main character as she tries to sleep for a full 12 months. I enjoyed this quite a lot for a story where not much really happens.

It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility what could be so terribly wrong? My rating: ★★★★

But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva.

Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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