Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

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⭐ 1.5/5 Review: Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough 🤯 #WTFThatEnding

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⚠️ Trigger Warnings

• Drug use (heroin, substance abuse) 💉

• Suicide attempt / psychiatric hospital themes 🏥

• Infidelity & toxic relationships 💔

• Fire / parental death in childhood 🔥

• Emotional manipulation & gaslighting 🌀

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✨ My Thoughts

Ok, I’ll admit it: I completely missed the point of this book. Or maybe the point missed me? Either way, we didn’t meet in the middle.

Behind Her Eyes is hyped as one of the best psychological thrillers ever. It’s got a Netflix show. It’s got a viral hashtag — #WTFThatEnding. So naturally, I was excited. But… friends, I don’t get the hype.

For most of the book, we’re following tangled relationships, dropped breadcrumbs, and mysteries that keep you turning pages even when you’re confused. And then that ending? Straight out of a paranormal fantasy novel. Do I feel punked? Absolutely. Psychological thriller? Nah. Paranormal body-swap fever dream.

Final verdict: 1.5 stars. The storytelling payoff was supposed to be a brilliant twist, but instead it felt like a bait-and-switch.

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📖 Spoiler-Filled Plot Summary (Major Spoilers Ahead 🚨)

Meet Louise, a single mom in London. She works as a secretary for a psychiatrist, David. One night in a bar, she kisses him (oops)… then realizes he’s her new boss. Awkward. To make it even juicier, she also becomes friends with his wife, Adele. Yep — triangle alert.

Louise and David start sleeping together. Meanwhile, Adele is sweet, maybe too sweet, and teaches Louise how to use lucid dreaming to control her terrifying night terrors. Louise starts thinking David is abusive and controlling Adele.

But Adele’s past is messy. Her wealthy parents died in a fire, she ended up in a psychiatric hospital, and that’s where she met Rob, a charming heroin user who became her best friend. When Rob got out, he visited Adele and David at their Scottish estate.

Back to the present: Louise snoops around about Rob, thinking maybe Adele and David killed him. Adele feeds Louise a mysterious notebook about astral projection. Louise starts experimenting with leaving her body in dreamlike states (because, why not).

David goes to Scotland to clear his name. Meanwhile, Adele sets a trap — her house on fire — luring Louise inside. During the chaos, Adele uses astral projection to swap bodies with Louise. Louise, trapped in Adele’s body, dies in the fire.

Plot twist: “Adele” wasn’t Adele at all. Back in Scotland years ago, Rob used astral projection to take over Adele’s body and killed her. So the Adele we’ve been following is actually Rob in Adele’s body all along. And now he’s upgraded into Louise’s body. 😳

In the final moments, “Louise/Rob” marries David and plays happy family. But Louise’s son, Adam, senses something is off. Rob (now in Louise’s body) is already thinking about getting rid of the kid so he and David can be free of suspicion. Creepy, huh?

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🏥 Why You Might (or Might Not) Read This

If you love wild, out-of-left-field twists and don’t mind your psychological thriller turning paranormal in the last act, this is your jam. Personally? I wanted a logical payoff, not astral projection.

But hey — some people think this is genius. So you’ll either love it or, like me, feel like you’ve been pranked.

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📚 Final Rating

⭐ 1.5 out of 5 stars.
Confusing buildup, bananas ending, and not much to redeem it. Sorry, but nope.

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