Book Synopsis:
Eli Hagin can’t finish anything.
He hates his job, but can’t seem to quit. He doesn’t want to be with his girlfriend, but doesn’t know how end things with her, either. Eli wants to write a novel, but he’s never taken a story beyond the first chapter.
Eli also has trouble separating reality from fiction.
When his best friend kills himself, Eli is motivated, for the first time in his life, to finally end something himself, just as Mike did…
Except sessions with his therapist suggest that Eli’s most recent ‘first chapters’ are not as fictitious as he had intended … and a series of text messages that Mike received before his death point to something much, much darker…
My Review:
Suicide Thursday is as an original, thought provoking read that I’ve continued to think about long after reading.
Firstly the subject of suicide in a book might sound a bit wrong but the author has written it in a sensitive way focussing instead on societies view of suicide and mental health. It seems to be a subject treated with indifference by some which is sad to see and something which needs to be addressed. There are some dark moments in the book which might not be to everyone’s taste but are important to highlight these problems.
Eli was a very interesting character who I was never completely sure I could trust. There was something just a bit off with him which made me a bit suspicious of his motives when he starts investigating Will’s suicide. It was nice to see him make positive changes to his life after his friends death though and to try and fix a few things in his life. I thought it was clever how the author writes the character so the reader feels like they are in their head sometimes, experiencing everything alongside the character.
Overall I really enjoyed this book which I’ll definitely be recommending to fans of the genre. It was a bit mad at times but that’s what made it so interesting to read and kept me on my toes so I never knew where the story was going next. The book was a very faced paced read, told from multiple points of view and it was very interesting seeing them all come together at the end.
Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Orenda for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Will Carver is the bestselling author of the January Series – Girl 4 (2011), The Two (2012), The Killer Inside (2013), Dead Set (2013) – and the critically acclaimed Detective Pace series, which includes Good Samaritans (2018), Nothing Important Happened Today (2019) and Hinton Hollow Death Trip (2020), all of which were selected as books of the year in mainstream international press. The books in this series have also been longlisted/shortlisted for the Amazon Readers Independent Voice Award, Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, Not The Booker Prize and the Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award. Will spent his early years living in Germany, but returned at age eleven. He studied theatre and television at King Alfred’s Winchester, where he set up a successful theatre company. He currently runs his own fitness and nutrition business and lives in Reading with his children.
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