In My Dreams I Hold a Knife: TikTok made me buy it! The breakout dark academia thriller everyone's talking about

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The younger brother of the murdered girl has remained at the University for the past ten years and now works on campus. Now she is an Upper East Side girl named partner at one of the most sought after positions at a consulting company in NYC.

BLOOD SISTERS will be published in September, but thanks to Vanessa and her publisher, we’re able to get an exclusive early glimpse into the book right here in today’s blog post! I also was actually a huge fan of the love triangle that was happening 😅 it’s been a while since I’ve read an interesting love triangle. But not everyone has moved on from the murder, someone has been compiling evidence long after the police have given up on the case.

Thank you to Harper Collins Canada, NetGalley and the author for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark “Beautiful writing, juicy secrets, complex female characters, and drumbeat suspense—what more could you want from a debut thriller?They all gather back at the prestigious Duquette University for their ten year Homecoming reunion, and secrets hidden begin to come to light. If there was one element of IN MY DREAMS I HOLD A KNIFE that perhaps didn’t work quite as well for me, it was the book’s pacing, particularly in the book’s first third. Now, ten years after leaving Duquette, Jess has the external markers of success that she so desperately sought, and she is determined that her college reunion will finally be her moment to prove to her former classmates once and for all that she is someone, and that she is worthy.

At a prestigious college- a group of very close friends, ‘dubbed the East House Seven’ lose one of their own when a young woman named Heather is murdered in cold blood. Told mostly from the point-of-view of Jessica, but also alternating between the others in the past and the present, everything begins to spiral and long-covered secrets are revealed. If you enjoy psychological thrillers about people with secrets, I recommend you check out Winstead’s debut novel.I was transfixed while her background was parceled out in increments and my understanding of her grew.

When one of the girls in her tight group of 7 friends was brutally murdered, the blame was immediately placed on her boyfriend. Taut and atmospheric, with scenes from Jessica's childhood and college years interposed with the dramatic events of the present day, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife will keep readers guessing until the very last moment. Publishers Weekly “Packed with intrigue, scandal, and enough twists and turns to match Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.But ten years after the murder of one of the East House Seven, the unbreakable bonds may be hiding fractured secrets of a group bound not by loyalty but by fear.