In My Dreams I Hold a Knife: TikTok made me buy it! The breakout dark academia thriller everyone's talking about

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Publishers Weekly “Packed with intrigue, scandal, and enough twists and turns to match Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. Thanks to Netgalley and HarperCollins Canada for the digital arc in exchange for my honest opinions.

Now a 30-something living in New York, Jess has built an enviable career and life for herself, and she wants everyone to know it. At its heart, Winstead’s novel examines what it means to covet the lives of others, no matter the cost. Seattle Book Review “Nostalgic and sinister, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife whisks the reader back to college. As a student at the prestigious Duquette University, she was obsessed with getting perfect grades and establishing a place for herself in the school’s social scene, a goal she accomplished by dating her class’ golden boy and ingratiating herself into a friend group known as the “East House Seven. I am amazed that this is a debut novel, the attention to detail is incredible and the writing is absolutely gorgeous, some of the scene toward the end nearly had me in tears?For a second I wasn’t sure how I felt about it, but then I thought how it made sense with the breadcrumbs that were scattered throughout. I was transfixed while her background was parceled out in increments and my understanding of her grew. Initially, I must say that I enjoyed this less than I had hoped for, but still definitely enjoyed certain parts.

This balance between drama and suspense, once established, sucked me right in and kept me hooked until the book’s end. But near the end of senior year one of them was murdered and another was accused, and things were never quite the same between them. What has this toxic enneagram 3 motherf*cker ever done in her life to make someone think she's got emotional depth? If there was one element of IN MY DREAMS I HOLD A KNIFE that perhaps didn’t work quite as well for me, it was the book’s pacing, particularly in the book’s first third.Between the alternating timelines and POVs, things are kept mysterious until the moment the author chooses to reveal all that happened on that fateful day during the East House 7's final year of college.

They are all in for a big shock when they discover that the reunion is also the opportunity someone has been waiting for- a chance to find out who murdered Heather and get justice once and for all.Ten years after an unsolved campus murder, the victim's best friends reunite, knowing one might be a monster—but is anyone innocent? I have read a very similar plot to this one before so I had to try not to let that weaken my enjoyment of this one. All of the characters are so fleshed out and it was such a great mystery trying to figure out what actually happened in the past. No cost is too great, and, as readers will discover, Jess is plunged into some very dark depths indeed in pursuit of her goals. Welcome to Duquette University, where a 10-year college reunion is about to take a dangerous turn in Ashley Winstead’s dark academia debut, IN MY DREAMS I HOLD A KNIFE.

s ᴀʙɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴇᴠᴇʟᴏᴘ ʜᴇʀ ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀs ɪɴ sᴜᴄʜ ᴀ ᴍᴜʟᴛɪᴅɪᴍᴇɴsɪᴏɴᴀʟ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛғᴜʟ ᴡᴀʏ, ᴇɴᴀʙʟᴇs ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴏ ᴄᴀʀᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏsᴛ ᴍᴏʀᴀʟʟʏ ɢʀᴇʏ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴜɴᴄʜ. Fans of books such as The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl will find this book captivating, as will anyone who enjoys being led down a winding, frightening path. Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark “Beautiful writing, juicy secrets, complex female characters, and drumbeat suspense—what more could you want from a debut thriller? Men and women be falling for her and I'm over like "y'all all need to sort out your priorities cause it's embarrassing tbh".I recently read and loved The Girls are All So Nice Here, which contains a similar plot and is stellar in its execution. I do believe many readers will find his a tense, compelling thriller, and I am probably in the minority.