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Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews


Rating:

3 Stars


Themes:

Mystery, Suspense, Fiction


Thoughts: 

I wasn’t sure whether to stick with this book and at one point I mentioned reading it to see if it gets better because it felt like it was taking forever to get started as over 100 pages and we weren’t even in Morocco yet despite the blurb saying soon. I found Florence unlikeable almost from the beginning as she seemed to feel she was better than everyone and deserved more than everyone else while almost blaming them for her not having it yet. I also found Helen and her attitudes unlikeable pretty soon after meeting her so that made me more hesitant about the book but I was confident that they’re being portrayed that way for a reason and they really were. As the real mystery elements unfolded in the latter half of the book I saw that all the build up (that I thought was slowing it down) and Florence and Helen’s characteristics were really important to making the ending work. I was very interested in seeing how the twists and turns after the car accident worked out and found it fun to be able to guess some but still be surprised too.


Favourite Quote:

“The only place she had ever gotten a sense of the world's beauty and magnitude was in books. She'd been obsessed with The Lord of the Rings in middle school. She'd loved escaping into a universe entirely unlike her own. It was part of what made her want to be a writer. She wanted to hold that immensity in her hand. To mold entire worlds according to her vision.”

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