The Shadow Writer – My Book Review

“You can’t hide forever, Grace,” she hears him call.

This is the fourth book I’ve read by Eliza Maxwell and it is true to form with her writing talent for crafting a story that is out-and-out perfection. Eliza’s books are always memorable, but The Shadow Writer tops them all so far.

This is an emotional, suspenseful, powerhouse of a story that you don’t see coming at all in many regards.

It is not often a book can take you on the meanest, baddest roller coaster ever built. After reading The Shadow Writer, I felt like I’d just finished simultaneously riding every roller coaster I have ever ridden.

The Shadow Writer is a suspenseful story with multiple unexpected twists and turns that left me breathless and nearly gasping along with each chapter, especially towards the end of the book. It is a story that is dark to its core, yet has light at the end. The story weaves around the questions of who is Graye Templeton and what created her? It further weaves around Sister Margaret, who cared for Graye as a child, and Laura West, a blogger who Graye sought out to help her get Graye’s career started. How all three lives intersect is mind-blowing.

The Shadow Writer takes you along shifting chapter character/narrator views. Thrown into the mix of chapters are the words of a manuscript that secretly holds important clues. The changes in chapter narrations skillfully carry the story to an ending you’ll not believe or see coming.

How does Eliza craft these stories that leave you so emotional? That answer is as mysterious as her stories, but she truly has a gift. The best part of her talent is that each of the stories she writes is memorable.

The Shadow Writer is another haunting story that’s not to be missed if you love being taken for a ride that will leave you breathless, guessing, and shocked until the very end.

Thank you, NetGalley and Eliza for the opportunity of an ARC of The Shadow Writer.