In My Dreams I Hold a Knife: TikTok made me buy it! The breakout dark academia thriller everyone's talking about

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IN MY DREAMS I HOLD A KNIFE is a strong debut suspense novel from an author whose future work I will be eagerly looking forward to reading. When the six friends are reunited, they will be forced to confront what happened that night—and the years’ worth of secrets each of them would do anything to keep hidden.

Walking across the college campus, having fun with your friends, falling in love, making mistakes, no responsibility. I realize it was only released last year, but it has come to my attention that ‘dark academia’ is a bit of a trend, which explains why I have found myself reading several other books recently with a similar theme. Page after page you get lost in the college atmosphere, in its parties and ceremonies, until everything is over, the truth is revealed and there's nothing more to read.Jessica Miller was our ‘protagonist’ in this story; however, it did provide perspectives for each member of the East House Seven, in addition to dual timelines as the murder mystery slowly unraveled.

The different timelines and perspectives impressively illustrated exactly why these characters were as 'effed up' as they were, making the characters even that much more authentic! Seattle Book Review “Nostalgic and sinister, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife whisks the reader back to college.They are each distinguished well and the developing cracks in their relationships add a lot of dark, brooding suspense in an already sinister-feeling mystery.

I liked going back and forth between different timelines which give enough clues about characters’ motives and perspectives. In My Dreams I Hold a Knife is required reading for fans of Donna Tartt's The Secret History and Amy Gentry's Bad Habits.

When a tragedy strikes her family and Jess’ father passes away, Jess finds herself more driven than ever to live out her father’s dreams and achieve the goals he was never able to for herself. Thanks to Netgalley and HarperCollins Canada for the digital arc in exchange for my honest opinions.

In a nutshell, this is about a college reunion that takes a rather dark and twisted turn as a group of six friends are forced to reckon with their involvement in, and contribution to, the now 10-year-old unsolved murder of one of their own…talk about suspense at its absolute best! A college reunion brings together a group of friends once shattered by a vicious crime in this thrilling debut, reminiscent of Cruel Intentions, Heathers, and, of course, the Secret History.At one point I suspected each of the six friends, and that is exactly how I want my thrillers to play out! Huge thanks to Vanessa and her publisher for giving us this early sneak peek—I can’t wait to read BLOOD SISTERS this fall! I am amazed that this is a debut novel, the attention to detail is incredible and the writing is absolutely gorgeous, some of the scene toward the end nearly had me in tears?