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Unhinged
Agnes Mullins slowly regains consciousness next to a girl whom, despite unsettling familiar features, she swears she does not know. Agnes’s only company in what seems to be a deserted office building in downtown Austin, Texas, is this familiar stranger. The only problem is that this girl happens to be dead. We follow Agnes as she attempts to piece together the events of the past 24 hours--along with her steadily unraveling mental and physical wellbeing. Her sanity has recently taken a backseat to the juggernaut of a failed first job which has shattered her once effervescent and supremely confident command of self and left her professional and social life held together with scotch tape that’s slowly losing its hold. In the midst of it all, a fair, charismatic figure slices through the haze and confusion and provides the bedrock of strength Agnes needs to make all the pieces fit back together. Until even his very presence threatens to unhinge the last vestige of her already tenuous hold on reality.
366 pages, Paperback
Published August 26, 2016
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December 22, 2016
This book is a tough one for me to review because it isn't a genre I usually read, and rubs up against some person biases the wrong way.
That being said, It was well written. The voice, descriptions and characters were so vivid they leapt off the page. The pacing and suspense were expertly crafted to keep me turning the pages.
The things I didn't like about it were no fault of the author, but results of my own biases and ways of seeing the world. For example, "girly" characters annoy me, and this book had girly characters. That has everything to do with my own, fluid, not fully-realized gender identity and nothing to do with the author.
I wasn't sure what to make of the end, but I think that was the point. A too neat or happy ending wouldn't have worked, and while this one left me guessing a little, it felt perfect for the book.
Mental Illness played a big role in this book. As someone who struggles with a lot of anxiety, it felt real, even if the characters flavor of anxiety was different from mine. The depression and PTSD were also captured well too. I liked that the author didn't just tell the readers about them like others have but really let it color how the narrator saw the world. Because of that, I was hoping it was going to work to dispel some stereotypes of mentally ill people being crazy, violent, murders. It didn't. There may be more to what the author was doing here than what I saw, but in the end, I felt like certain stereotypes were solidified and not broken, which left me a little unsettled.
No book is perfect, and while like others, this had its flaws, I would still recommend it to anyone that likes thriller and horror without a supernatural element. It was a vibrant, well written, suspenseful narrative that kept me guessing up until the end.
That being said, It was well written. The voice, descriptions and characters were so vivid they leapt off the page. The pacing and suspense were expertly crafted to keep me turning the pages.
The things I didn't like about it were no fault of the author, but results of my own biases and ways of seeing the world. For example, "girly" characters annoy me, and this book had girly characters. That has everything to do with my own, fluid, not fully-realized gender identity and nothing to do with the author.
I wasn't sure what to make of the end, but I think that was the point. A too neat or happy ending wouldn't have worked, and while this one left me guessing a little, it felt perfect for the book.
Mental Illness played a big role in this book. As someone who struggles with a lot of anxiety, it felt real, even if the characters flavor of anxiety was different from mine. The depression and PTSD were also captured well too. I liked that the author didn't just tell the readers about them like others have but really let it color how the narrator saw the world. Because of that, I was hoping it was going to work to dispel some stereotypes of mentally ill people being crazy, violent, murders. It didn't. There may be more to what the author was doing here than what I saw, but in the end, I felt like certain stereotypes were solidified and not broken, which left me a little unsettled.
No book is perfect, and while like others, this had its flaws, I would still recommend it to anyone that likes thriller and horror without a supernatural element. It was a vibrant, well written, suspenseful narrative that kept me guessing up until the end.
September 16, 2016
The cover art and title bait the reader to crack the spine - once in you'll have a connection to Agnes Mullins as she navigates a world that she doesn't understand - written in a style that is easy to understand I wanted to keep reading - after only 30 pages in I'm hooked - I highly recommend Unhinged from the very talented Kelly Fitzharris Coody - buy it, read it, recommend it and enjoy!!!
September 5, 2018
I won this book though Goodreads Giveaways.
This novel started out okay. It held my interest for the most part, but definitely started to get weaker and weaker the closer I got to the end. It felt like not much actually happened in the first 3/4s of the story and then all of a sudden the author realized it was time to start making things happen. I didn't find it very believable. There were way too many twists and turns, it seemed like the author tried to make too much happen towards the end of the story.
This novel started out okay. It held my interest for the most part, but definitely started to get weaker and weaker the closer I got to the end. It felt like not much actually happened in the first 3/4s of the story and then all of a sudden the author realized it was time to start making things happen. I didn't find it very believable. There were way too many twists and turns, it seemed like the author tried to make too much happen towards the end of the story.
November 10, 2016
Explosive, Psychotic, Intensely Captivating.
FINALLY a unique way of storytelling. What I love about Unhinged was the style draws the reader into the spiraling madness of Agnes Mullins' mind. I admit to looking over my shoulder a couple of times at night while reading this book.
As a big reader I easily bore with the formulaic style of many novels these days.... You know the ones, prettygirlcrimecommittedmajorsuspectscopsnegligentprobablytheneighbourneatlilparcelhappyishendingblahblahblahboring ..... THIS IS NOT THAT STORY!!!
Unhinged was surprising, full of twists and turns, blurring the lines between reality and psychosis. It's the Mulholland Dr of novels.
I've leant Unhinged to my husband and recommended it to my friends, now I'm recommending it to you. 5 Stars.
FINALLY a unique way of storytelling. What I love about Unhinged was the style draws the reader into the spiraling madness of Agnes Mullins' mind. I admit to looking over my shoulder a couple of times at night while reading this book.
As a big reader I easily bore with the formulaic style of many novels these days.... You know the ones, prettygirlcrimecommittedmajorsuspectscopsnegligentprobablytheneighbourneatlilparcelhappyishendingblahblahblahboring ..... THIS IS NOT THAT STORY!!!
Unhinged was surprising, full of twists and turns, blurring the lines between reality and psychosis. It's the Mulholland Dr of novels.
I've leant Unhinged to my husband and recommended it to my friends, now I'm recommending it to you. 5 Stars.
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