Reading in the Mountains

Eden Fox is about to have it all. A rising artist. A new house. A husband waiting at home. A daughter moved from home. She goes out for a run—and comes back to a life that no longer belongs to her. The key doesn’t work. The house isn’t hers. And the woman at the door looks disturbingly like her. Even worse? Her husband swears she’s his wife.

Six months earlier, Birdy inherits Spyglass, a stunning old house in the coastal town of Hope Falls, just as her world quietly falls apart. A devastating diagnosis (which triggered my panic attacks, not gonna lie). A past she doesn’t fully understand. And a secretive London clinic that claims it can predict the exact date of her death. Once Birdy realizes she’s running out of time, the truth begins to fracture—and some wrongs demand to be rewritten.

One house. One marriage. Two women.

And a story where identity is slippery, love is unreliable, and nothing—especially Spyglass—is what it seems.

Oh my God, I’ve been waiting forever for Alice Feeney’s new book. It makes me feel alive and it’s super, super interesting. Triggering—my mom died of cancer, and normally I avoid anything cancer-related in my thriller reading breaks—but somehow, I still couldn’t stop reading. I still don’t fully know what’s happening with either Birdy or Eden, and honestly? That’s part of the thrill. The book is disturbing, weird, and I’m here for it.

Everything that happens is insanely intriguing, and I think this might be my favorite book of the year already. I loved it so much—plot twists everywhere, situations I never saw coming, just when I thought something was happening, it flips entirely.

I took my sweet time finishing it because I needed a well-earned mental health break, but it was absolutely brilliant. From me? 5 out of 5 stars.