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Average rating3.2
A twisty debut exploring the dark side of true crime fandom and the blurry lines of female friendship, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, My Favorite Murder, and Fleabag Conspiracy theories from Reddit seduce a disaster-prone woman into an obsession with solving her older sister’s cold-case disappearance Ten years ago, Theodora “Teddy” Angstrom’s older sister, Angie, went missing. Her case remains unsolved. Now Teddy’s father, Mark, has killed himself. Unbeknownst to Mark’s family, he had been active in a Reddit community fixated on Angie, and Teddy can’t help but fall down the same rabbit hole. Teddy’s investigation quickly gets her in hot water with her gun-nut boyfriend, her long-lost half brother, and her colleagues at the prestigious high school where she teaches English. Further complicating matters is Teddy’s growing obsession with Mickey, a charming amateur sleuth who is eerily keen on helping her solve the case. Bewitched by Mickey, Teddy begins to lose her moral compass. As she struggles to reconcile new information with old memories, her erratic behavior reaches a fever pitch, but she won’t stop until she finds Angie—or destroys herself in the process. A biting critique of the internet’s voyeurism, Rabbit Hole is an outrageous and heart-wrenching character study of a mind twisted by grief—and a page-turning mystery that’s as addictive as a late-night Reddit binge.
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This was not a fun book to read. Not much of a thriller, more like a depressing tale of the destruction of a family. Not for me.
If you're expecting this one to be your typical thriller about a woman searching for the truth about her missing sister, I can tell you right now this is not that. What it is is a heavy, somber, depressing deep dive into one woman's descent into her own dark thoughts and actions, spurned by the disappearance of her sister and exacerbated by her father's suicide 10 years after the fact. This is a character study of what happens when we let the intrusive thoughts win and shape how we see ourselves and how that colors our inteactions with the world we inhabit day-to-day.
The writing is sharp and propulsive and keeps you engaged from the very first line. So much so that I finished this 374-page novel in one sitting. Highly recommended for fans of weird literary fiction and sad girl drama.
TRIGGER WARNINGS: animal death, drug addiction/drug use, alcoholism, suicide/suicidal ideations, online harassment/bullying