Review: Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Abike-Iyimide

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Review : Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Abike-Iyimide - March 2024

This book looked intimidating as it was quite a thick book, but once I got stuck into reading it. The story moved at quite a quick pace. It started with our main female character with another, saying "he was dead". We wondered who the girls were and who was dead. The book then jumped 5 weeks earlier and our main female character is headed to boarding school as Sade is now an orphan with both parents dead. It was either boarding school or going to live with relatives. Sade has always been home-schooled and this is her first school experience. The thing though Sade is supposedly cursed as people around her tend to die. What happens when Sade meets her new roommate Elizabeth and then the next day, she disappears? The headmaster has said she's gone home with family, but Sade is determined to discover the actual truth, and she goes along and makes new friends. She learns that the reason her roommate disappeared is connected to a group called The Fisherman. Who is the Fisherman and will Elizabeth be found DOA? When the ending was revealed, parts of it made sense as there are a couple of hints throughout the story. If you love boarding school thrillers, then this book will be right up your alley. It does also touch just those who need trigger warnings - drug use, alcohol, and rape. I enjoyed Faridah Abike-Iyimide's writing and have now placed on hold from the Library, her book Ace of Spades.

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