I have probably mentioned before that my dad gifts my sister and me a book each Christmas. He puts a lot of effort into finding the perfect book for each of us and he always does a spectacular job. That being said, he will never top last Christmas’s book. I finished Tell Me Who You Are by Louisa Luna in record time in between book club books. I loved the plot, the setting, the character development, the descriptive details, the psychiatric references…absolutely everything. I’m not sure what it says about me that I love this domestic thriller genre so much, but I can’t get enough.
Tell Me Who You Are
I do not want to give away any spoilers, but I was unsure of where this was going for the majority of the second half of the book. In a good way. Thankfully, a dear friend and fellow psychological thriller fan read this at the same time as me so we were able to discuss. Here’s what Amazon has to say:
The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a shocking past and her dangerous new patient.
Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what’s best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all changes when a troubled young man arrives for his appointment and makes a pair of alarming confessions: I am going to kill someone, and I know who you really are.
Dr. Caroline is accustomed to hearing her patients’ deepest, darkest secrets, but it seems Nelson Schack may be one step ahead when detectives show up later that day, inquiring about a missing woman. It looks like Nelson has made good on his threat―yet somehow it’s Dr. Caroline who becomes the prime suspect.
Convinced the police are incompetent, Dr. Caroline takes matters into her own hands, chasing down the elusive Nelson and running headlong into a past she has spent her entire life trying to forget. As she closes in on her target, all the polished pieces of her manicured life splinter when people begin to question who she really is.
Harrowing, unpredictable, and compulsively readable, the award-winning author Louisa Luna’s Tell Me Who You Are is an utterly gripping psychological thriller that begs the question: Can a person ever really outrun their past?
I will definitely read another Louisa Luna book in the near future. Grab this one here: https://amzn.to/3Dtl92j
My next book club selection is The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. I’m about a third of the way through it and it’s proving to be a fabulous mystery. It’s available here: https://amzn.to/4hkP3Ug
I needed a bit of a palate cleanser after reading several dark books back to back, so I snagged this after Shay Shull reviewed it in her February recap (https://mixandmatchmama.com/2025/02/february-2025-book-review/). I figure The Lodge by Kayla Olson is the perfect book for my spring break travels. It’s chick lit set in a winter wonderland. I couldn’t resist and I already started it. I’m trying my best to save it for my trip, but I find myself sneaking pages whenever I can. If you have a ski trip on the books for spring break, get this here: https://amzn.to/4iA66Tp.
The Lodge by Kayla Olson
Happy reading!
