Behind Her Eyes

“Some love is so powerful it sweeps everything else away.”

Unpredictable/unexpected endings are very difficult to pull off these days due to the presence of so many books, shows and movies with weird plot twists as a result of which people are able imagine every possible scenario, come up with all sorts of theories as to what's going to happen and comfortably predict the ending. Behind Her Eyes also seemed set to face the same predicament but took a complete U-Turn that led to an absolute shocker of an ending. Unfortunately, other than the ending the story had nothing else worth noting, was very predictable and doesn't offer much different from what we have seen in similar plots.

The ending, despite being incredulous and jaw dropping at its own is a disappointment when it comes to the overall impact on story and logic. The book strays from the path of other psychological thriller storylines due to a paranormal trope added which removes the need for some logical explanation in some parts but that ending? No paranormal or fantasy trope can explain the stupidity of what happened there. It just completely ignores previously set up events and logic like it's nothing.

There are 3 main characters in the book: Louise, David and Adele. I didn't like Louise that much I thought she was just a clueless horror movie character that makes stupid choices but the other 2 were good. The mystery surrounding the couple of David and Adele is what intrigued me the most.

I enjoyed this book no doubt, it had my interest the whole time. Thought a lot of the situations in the book could have been much scarier & the third act a bit extended and not rushed. Also really liked the idea of introducing paranormal trope to this plot. But the real question is, was the brave and bold decision of having an ending that is so senseless and absurd that it will have a drastic effect on the story and logic worth it? Turns out it just was as I hadn't been so aghast by an ending for a long time.