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Literary thriller

We Spread

★★★★★ 3/5

Finished October 4, 2026 · audio + physical

It could have been half as long.

Penny is an elderly artist who gets moved into a strange little care home where time stops making sense. I picked this up as a suggestion after enjoying Death in Her Hands. Same unreliable elder narrator with psychological thriller vibes.

The creepiness and atmospherics definitely worked. This was a bit flat, though. And the sentence and paragraph structure absolutely drove me bonkers! Short sentences and one-to-two-line paragraphs with a ton of white space. It could have been half as long.

Vibes

  • unreliable elder narrator
  • psychological thriller vibes
  • creepy and atmospheric
  • a bit flat

Why I picked it up

A suggestion after enjoying Death in Her Hands.