All the Dangerous Things: The gripping new psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark

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I understand that first person povs will always have some inner monologues, but there should be a limit to them, especially in genres that function on pace. Motherhood meant sleep deprivation but since Isabel's baby was taken, she's had no real sleep in a year. Within the first 25% of the book I considered DNF’ing as many descriptions and similes felt forced and awkward. It’s been a year since her toddler was taken from his crib in the night, and six months since her husband Ben left her. Purple, like a marbling bruise, while the rest of my face has taken on a grayish tone, like chicken that's been left in the fridge too long.

The crowd continues to yell, some of them standing, clapping, the beady little eyes of their iPhones pointed in my direction, taking me in, unblinking.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I enjoyed the sleep deprivation/sleepwalker aspect, especially since I was a prolific sleepwalker until about 12 years old. I’m glad I didn’t because the story stopped focusing just on how desperately sad Isabellle was, and started to get more into the mystery and suspense. Even though this is only her second book, Willingham's future is SO bright and my only quibble is that I now will have to wait for her next book to arrive! It made me feel the book was leggy and when a direction or angle of the story was engrossing, it got broken up by whole chapters that lagged behind the speed i wanted and was engrossed by.

Isabelle has been giving speeches to packed audiences, pleading with attendees to come forward with any information, no matter how small. Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Moving between past and present, ALL THE DANGEROUS THINGS delves into the darkest corners of the life of one mother as she investigates the disappearance of her son one year prior—and, in the process, confronts long-buried secrets from her own childhood. I felt the characters grow on me from the first page and I was completely engrossed in their story, wondering what had happened and considering many options but none prepared me for what had actually happened in the dramatic ending. Less than a year after his abduction, Isabelle and Ben, separate as they struggle to come to the acceptance of his disappearance.I devoured ALL THE DANGEROUS THINGS over my holiday break this year, and found this to be one of those rare books that genuinely is impossible to put down. She knows people try to get close to her for their own reasons, such as the true-crime podcaster who offers to help her find out who took her son. The past is mixing with the present as the complexity of human nature and motherhood is carefully interwoven into a tragic story. His questions of her childhood and background bring up memories of the trauma that she lived through when she was young.

It's after speaking at an event dedicated to True crime that she meets True Crime Podcaster, Waylon Spencer. Isabelle has barely slept in the last year, meaning extreme sleep deprivation makes it hard for her to function, to trust her own thoughts - did she do something wrong on that dreadful night that Mason went missing, she knows that the detective investigating the case looks on her as a suspect.Now Isabelle is giving talks to the public about her missing baby, who was taken from her home a year before. It’s a harrowing and dark story you would never want to imagine could possibly be real and you would hope never would be but it’s so well written that it could be factual. and the reason was because Isabelle wasn’t very likeable – nor were any of the other women for that matter. The pain and suffering Willingham describes are palpable, I couldn’t even begin to imagine how Isabelle must have felt through that year her son was missing or what the other characters had gone through, some with much more sympathy than others.

These are without doubt, flawed, complex people who are all portrayed well so they feel authentic and they are what makes this such a powerful and thought provoking psychological thriller. The narrative is shared completely from Isabelle’s PoV and moves back and forth between the present day with flashbacks from her relationship with Ben and chapters devoted to her childhood. I loved the ending, with a couple of twists I didn’t see coming, it was a little too neatly wrapped up but very satisfying at the same time.From heart-stopping suspense to spine-tingling surprise endings, this story will have you breathless from start to finish! I figured it would be hard for her sophomore novel to even live up to her own high standards, much less surpass them. i was able to figure out everything very early on, but thats only because ive read loads of mystery/thrillers and can spot the ‘whodunnit’ a mile away. Sorry,” I say, shaking my head, as if the motion could somehow clear the fog like windshield wipers swiping at rain.