Tell Me Who You Are

While I'm not the biggest thriller reader, if you ask me for a thriller recommendation, I will immediately say LOUISA LUNA!!! I have been obsessed with her Alice Vega detective series, and was not disappointed with her first (for me) stand-alone book. I went in blind and went on SUCH a roller coaster with this fun, page-turner of a novel. This book has everything: an unreliable narrator, multiple personality disorders, multiple POVs that are actually super fun and surprising, and twists and turns that will leave you speechless.

This book may not be for everyone, I'm sure it's similar to a lot of big thrillers that I've missed but I admire Luna's audacity in finding plot twists that are both surprising and still make sense. It's a bit fantastical, but I really really had a lot of fun. A psychiatrist (Dr. Caroline Strange, what a name!) has a dark past which is brought up unexpectedly by a new patient one hers - ones that also tells her he plans on murdering someone soon. As the reader, though we are in the heads of the characters, we are still left in the dark for most of the book, trying to figure out the mystery and going back and forth between time (in a good way!) to help solve the crimes, both from the past and the future. I can't recommend this fun book enough, as well as anything else Luna has written!

A solid psychological thriller that is grittier than most. Dissociative identity disorder otherwise known as multiple personality disorder (MPD) is explored without the reader feeling a shortcut has been taken and it plays well into the unreliable narrator trope.
From the wealthy psychiatrist, Caroline Strange, with snarky nicknames for each of her patients to the no nonsense Detective trying to locate a missing journalist that just so happened to have written an uncomplimentary story on the worst psychiatrists in the area to include Dr. Caroline, there is a cat and mouse feel to their interactions. Written in multiple POV's the reader has to decide which narrator is unreliable, if any.
Told in dual timelines, Dr. Caroline is as odd as her last name but her past informs her present and with a healthy sense of her abilities and intellect, she knows she will find the journalist before the police do. That is, if she isn't arrested for the crime herself.

As a huge fan of author Louisa Luna's Alice Vega series, I knew the female main character wouldn't be a shrinking violet but a morally ambiguous kickass woman. I was not disappointed.

4.5 stars rounded up to 5.

Thank you to Farrar, Straus and Giroux for access to an early e-copy via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

Dark, intense, fresh, unique and binge worthy! I loved every word of this one! Dr. Caroline Strange, a psychiatrist, has her life well under control until Nelson Schack walks into her office and announces that he is going to kill someone and she knows who it is during his first visit. Before leaving her office, he leaves Dr. Caroline with one last bit of ominous information by announcing “he knows who she really is”. With the possibility of someone’s life on the line, Dr. Caroline will have to dredge up her sinister past and figure out who Nelson really is and what motivates him to want to commit murder. This story is told in 3 points of view and I enjoyed each one. Generally, I have a favorite POV but this story is written so well and so tightly plotted that I looked forward to each new chapter equally. I loved all the dark humor and snarky inner thoughts of each of the characters. I hope this book hits the mainstream and many get to enjoy it. This is EVERYTHING a thriller should be and thriller lovers are going to eat this one up! Thank you Netgalley, Farrah, Straus and Giroux, and the author for this eARC in exchange for my honest review. This book will be available for purchase on June 4, 2024