Book Review | In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

★★★☆☆

345 pages

Published: August 3rd 2021 by Sourcebooks Landmark

Six friends.
One college reunion.
One unsolved murder.

A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and themselves—for a decade.

Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent—not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year. Ten years ago, everything fell apart, including the dreams she worked for her whole life—and her relationship with the one person she wasn’t supposed to love.

But not everyone is ready to move on. Not everyone left Duquette ten years ago, and not everyone can let Heather’s murder go unsolved. Someone is determined to trap the real killer, to make the guilty pay. 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.

Told in racing dual timelines, with a dark campus setting and a darker look at friendship, love, obsession, and ambition, In My Dreams I Hold A Knife is an addictive, propulsive read you won’t be able to put down.

(From Goodreads)

My review

So I actually would give this more of a 3.5 stars but rounded down to 3.

Likes

• I enjoyed all of the different characters and building up their backstories and finding out all of their secrets
• Lots of little twists throughout the book that, for the most part, have you guessing who did it til the end

Dislikes

• Jessica’s character was so self centered.. and a bad friend
• A little slow paced and with all of the characters, it was harder to get super into at times
• The characters were so into going back to their homecoming years later and outdoing each other

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