I liked the incorporation of Greek mythology and the looks into Mariana’s tragic past, as well as her relationship with her father. However, this is a highly entertaining thriller, and moves fast.
In my opinion it tries *too* hard with all that, which made the final twist lose a bit of its ’umph’ for me (I was too busy rolling my eyes). Obviously there’s a ton more to this book, which is packed with a staggering amount of characters and tries very, very hard to throw you off the trail of who’s committing the murders through approximately one billion layers of red herring-y complications. “the maidens.” AND the girl who was murdered was one of them. Pretty much immediately Mariana suspects the handsome, shady Professor Edward Fosca (who needs to be played by Ben Barnes whenever this is inevitably adapted for TV/a movie), who leads a devoted, all-female cohort of students he calls. This one follows Mariana, a psychologist and recent widow, who races to Cambridge when her niece calls with news that a fellow Oxford student has been brutally murdered. That said, Michaelides has once again woven a tight, compelling thriller with a twisty pay-off. However, this was always going to garner a comparison to his previous novel, The Silent Patient, and against that it doesn’t hold a candle if I’m being honest (only because I love-love-LOVED that one). I finished Alex Michaelides’ The Maidens in one sitting, which seems like a good metric for how much I enjoyed it? Because I did enjoy it, for sure. Can I just say that the fact this book was released around Father’s Day is hilarious, given the content of the story? It made me laugh out loud when I realized 💀 But annnnyway, let’s get into this book review, shall we?
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