Suicide Thursday- Blog Tour

 

Author: Will Carver 

Publisher: Orenda Books

Publishing Date: 24th November 2022 

Many thanks to Random Things Tours and the publishing team for my spot on the tour and a digital copy of the book. 

Blurb 

Eli Hagin can’t finish anything. 

 

He hates his job, but can’t seem to quit. He doesn’t want to be with his girlfriend, but doesn’t know how end things with her, either. Eli wants to write a novel, but he’s never taken a story beyond the first chapter. 

 

Eli also has trouble separating reality from fiction. 

 

When his best friend kills himself, Eli is motivated, for the first time in his life, to finally end something himself, just as Mike did…

 

Except sessions with his therapist suggest that Eli’s most recent ‘first chapters’ are not as fictitious as he had intended … and a series of text messages that Mike received before his death point to something much, much darker…

My Thoughts

I have read a few books from the author and have always been blown away by them and this did not disappoint. 

It was interestingly structured and took me a while to get my head around it but that is the element of intricacy within this book. We get to read text messages, story extracts and conversations that are short and snappy so you do stay focused.  

The story unfolds with several POV's but each add value to what is unfolding. Eli's character shows that there is more to person and what on the outside they want others to see them as. Sometimes he dissolves himself between fact and fiction which leaves an unsettling feeling.  We also read POV from Mike which was interesting and Jackie, Eli's girlfriend. Each character you feel has a caring persona to them and then within the next few moments they do a u-turn and go in the opposite direction. 

One thing I really enjoyed was the level of descriptive writing it was immersive. The story telling may just add a few extra descriptions but the somehow they add to leading the reader feeling tense and the atmosphere changes so rapidly. 

The author also tackled a difficult subject but managed to layer the coldness with an open discussion.