Review: Alice Close Your Eyes - Averil Dean


 

Review: Alice Close Your Eyes - Averil Dean - December 2013

Wanting a novel that in a way reminds the reader of the author Jennifer McMahon ? A novel that will have you sucked in but at the same time , the book will have you questioning why on earth are you still reading it ? This was one of the weirdest books I have read in a long time. Judging by the cover , I thought this book would be a psychological thriller and in a way it was but then again, it wasn't. In Alice, Close Your Eyes we meet Alice Croft - she is a reclusive author who in her spare time, stalks guys and then breaks into their houses to discover the strange and what others would call mundane. She steals their sentimental objects, things that to people outside of them would be seen as nothing major or important. She also cuts herself with razor blades to relieve pain and I guess also as a punishment for her kleptomania. She has never been caught until now and the guy Jack will not let her simply leave and walk out of his life. As the novel goes on , there is lots of sex scenes and quite graphic ones and it seems that Jack and Alice are friends but not friends ,  with benefits. We also discover that Alice has had a rough life and for ten years she has been searching for someone who can help her kill the man , the reason she has not been able to close her eyes and sleep at night. Has Alice finally found a guy who will kill for her ? This novel also shows us that often what we think we experienced as a child , can not nessecarily be the exact true events of what really happened and that when the incidents or actions are closer to us, more often than not we have a skewed view of what is fact and what is fiction.

 

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