Beautifully written and unbearably tense
this is a standout study of ambition
rivalry and fear.
Megan Abbott is one of the smartest storytellers around and her thought-provoking ideas lift her books to another level.
[A] searing
fierce novel of female friendship and ambition.
[Give Me Your Hand] should cement [Abbott's] position as one of the most intelligent and daring novelists working in the crime genre today.
Megan Abbott at her very best. Cool
crisp
chilling.
SO. GOOD. A tense
pitch-perfect thriller about ambition and female friendship and a forensic examination of what it takes for women to rise through male-dominated spaces. It felt in places like a dark inversion of The Secret History.
Give Me Your Hand is sublime.
What THESE black shadows under my eyes? Why they're courtesy of Give Me Your Hand. SO UNBEARABLY TENSE.
A psychological thriller about women in science
twisted female relationships and toxic secrets
Give Me Your Hand is just irresistible. I devoured it with escalating discomfort. Abbott's writing is elegant
her themes expansive and her research utterly convincing. An addictive
unsettling and distinctive read - I loved it!
Dark
daring and smart
this psychological thriller is ragingly good.
Give Me Your Hand is dark
unsettling
brilliantly tense
and I raced through it without pausing for breath.
Megan's writing is masterful
suspenseful and believable . . . The suspense does not let up - I was gripped from the first page.
Give Me Your Hand is dark
smart
twisty
and thoroughly addictive.
While Megan Abbott's magnetic new novel mines themes of ambition
competition
excellence
and friendship
what perhaps struck me the most was its exploration of the long
undeterrable reach of memory. Give Me Your Hand is darkly effective
uneasy-making
and beautifully
absorbingly written.
I adore Megan Abbott and devoured this new one in one sitting!
Abbot writes female characters who are smart and complex and capable of very bad things . . . I read it with my shoulders scrunched . . . genuinely awestruck by every twist and turn . . . It's bloody horrifying and absorbing and so very good.
I loved this book-for its cleverness and fast pacing. I was compelled to read quickly
the plot construction was brilliant
the characters sharply drawn.
Abbott deliciously draws out tension . . . a baroque thriller.
Megan Abbott proves she's still the queen of uncovering the dark complexity of the female psyche . . . It uses all the strengths she's known for and gives them more room to develop.
[A] fiery new novel . . . Even if you have committed no crimes and harbor no weighty secrets
this book will leave you nauseous with the memories of your own manic
pulsing teenage nature
the emotions you barely kept in check and the ones that overflowed.
Abbott is expert at the twists and turns of a good thrillers
and a long the way she's brilliant at examining complex mindsets
the subconscious drives of her main characters . . . Sublime stuff.
