I feel like every time I try and read a thriller the female protagonist makes the dumbest decisions, has terrible inner dialogue and is totally insufferable. Bonus points if she ignores the boyfriend/husband’s red flags and they start gaslighting her into thinking she’s crazy. Extra bonus points if surprise! She’s also pregnant! 🙄
So basically I would like a story that’s still thrilling without being unrealistic, a character that has more than one brain cell, and for the love of god no secret or surprise pregnancies. Actually no pregnancies at all please. The only thrillers I can think of right now that satisfied me in this way are Dark Places by Gillian Flynn and No Exit by Taylor Adams.
by reverseXcowgirl
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If you can handle it, Broken earth trilogy is good. Trigger warning though, its pretty dark and sad, misery porn basically.
What would it take to break a person, to take their humanity?
At 13, they’d survived a living nightmare at the hands of two vicious home invaders. Three years later, they’ve become living nightmares by causing the largest manhunt in New York City’s history. Detective Iris Williams is the best detective the N.Y.P.D. has to offer, but it will take all of her skills to bring down two of the most dangerously elusive, and youngest serial killers she’s ever encountered, 16-year-old identical twin sisters, Stacey and Jannifer McHill…THE TWINS, by R.G.Miller
https://youtu.be/yTgOB2-0Hhs?si=SQ-oCUfHjfwNaauR