Rabbit Hole
Ratings13
Average rating3.3
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
I just finished The Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody and here are my thoughts.
Teddy has had a lot of tragedy in her life and when he father, Mark, kills himself, she finds that, 10 years on, he was still trying to figure out what happened to her sister Angie. Falling down the same rabbit hole he did.
Her investigation leads her to Mickey, someone her dad was talking to. She tries reaching out to her brother but is shunned and threatened. Mickey has skills that help Teddy dig into the who, what, where and why from the night her sister disappeared for good.
Drinking too much and sleeping too little, Teddy has trouble keeping fact from fiction while processing her grief in a way that could put her in danger.
It was a weird book. It really wasn't what I was expecting at all. It is a lot of reddit threads and Teddy trying to piece together clues and she is following all kinds of things she is seeing online. She is the very best in unreliable narrators and that made it more interesting. The whole story surrounding her sister's disappearance was pretty interesting but the book wasn't very fast paced and it did drag in places.
I didn't much care for the reddit threads and there were a lot of them. I don't use reddit because it irritates me so this really wasn't an enjoyable format for me. It was very dark and you could feel the grief coming off the page and I am glad we discovered what happened. It felt nice to have the closure.
I'm still not 100% sure I loved it but it was definitely an entertaining read.
4 stars thank you to netgalley for my gifted copy.
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