Review: You Won't Stop Reading Until the End
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2014
To put it plainly, this book was superb and wildly intense. This is far from a light read, but at the same time, once you start reading it, you won't be stopping any time soon. Murder mystery thrillers have always been a favorite of mine, but combining that with an extremely well-researched and informational exploration of mental health and memory suppression made it a strange mixture of medicine and fiction that was legitimately brilliant. I can usually sniff out a storyline, a killer, or a cliffhanger from a few chapters away at least, but The Courage to Kill was a unique challenge for me. Everything in the story was engaging, from the plot to the characters to the backstory to the syntax itself. All in all, it is a significant achievement and I think the character of Janice is so amorphous and changeable throughout the novel that I honestly never understood quite what to make of her. As more and more is revealed about her, and as Myers digs deeper, readers will be pleasantly sucked in to a rare, enthralling story. I will definitely be picking up some more of Argo's work in the future, just to see if he can keep me guessing more than once. Honestly, you won't be disappointed.