Only Nalini Singh can bring to the world of Thrillers. Twisted, addicting, page turning, There Should Have Been Eight is a masterpeice of Nalini's brilliance.

There Should Have Been Eight
By Nalini Singh
Pub Date: Nov.21, 2023
Gollancz
Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the ARc of this book in exchange For my honest opinion.
This one did not work for me. The characters were not interesting and I could not bring myself to care for what happened to them. The plot was not well thought out and not twisty the way I like them.
I cannot recommend this book.
2 stars

3.5 stars

This is an above average locked room thriller. I really enjoyed all the secrets, and the atmosphere. The writing is solid and kept me reading well into the night

I rarely choose thrillers with a large dose of scary Yet I nearly read TSHB8 in two sittings. I had to know what happened! Nalini Singh painted amazing word pictures of the half destoryed house and the gloom inside.

And she captured a group of people living through the memory of friendships shattered by a friend's death.

We see all of this unfold through Luna, a photographer with secrets. Nalini wrote her in such a way that I related to her, but never fully liked her. Kind of the way she never fully settled back into the lines of those friendships.

There were innocents as well as people with deeper, darker motivations. And all of it set in beautiful, darker place in which nature and evil human intentions collide.

My heart is still kind of pounding and my brain keeps wanting to go back to those very tangled ties that bound. It's a book I'll remember for a long time,

Their Should Have Been Eight is a locked room mystery - isolated after a big snow storm. 7 old friends gather to commemorate the death of a friend many years ago. They go to her old family home - once a fine gothic mansion but now a crumbling place.

Secrets arise and it soon becomes apparent that the friend's death is not what they thought.