Name: Kristen Claiborn's review of First Born by Will Dean
Item: First Born
Rating: 4
Author: Kristen Claiborn

Will Dean

From the acclaimed author of The Last Thing to Burn, a psychological thriller about the dark secrets that emerge when a woman’s twin sister is murdered, with his signature “intense, gripping, taut, terrifying, moving, and brilliant” (Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author) prose. Sisters. Soulmates. Strangers. Molly Raven lives a quiet, structured life in London, finding comfort in security and routine. Her identical twin Katie, living in New York, is the exact opposite: outgoing, spontaneous, and adventurous. But when Molly hears that Katie has died, possibly murdered, she is thrown into unfamiliar territory. As terrifying as it is, she knows she must travel across the ocean and find out what happened. But as she tracks her twin’s final movements, cracks begin to emerge, and she slowly realizes her sister was not who she thought she was and there’s a dangerous web of deceit surrounding the two of them.

A Novel

First Born

Elizabeth Neill

Kristen Claiborn

I love me a good psychological thriller. I don’t love it like a love a good romance, but the psychological thriller turns into the best page-turner. There’s nothing I love more than sinking into my amazingly cozy couch with a huge bottle of water (so I don’t have to get up) and a great page-turner. Since I review books for a living, I don’t even call it free time. Ladies and gentlemen, I get to laze about with a book and a beverage and call it work. My life is pretty amazing. 
	I’ve always been a big fan of thrillers. My favorite genre is romance, but thrillers have always entertained me. I get excited when a thriller is up next in my queue nestled amongst the literary fictions and the historical fictions; books with heavy stories. Thrillers I can breeze through without becoming overly emotionally involved. They also have a tendency to surprise me, making them that much more enjoyable. This one came across as a cut-and-dry murder mystery at first. I don’t want to give any spoilers, so I won’t divulge more, but I will say that I was utterly wrong. I was so wrong I made audible noises (they took my husband by surprise, because I usually read in silence and rarely divulge how I feel about a book). 
	The beginning of the book focuses on the younger twin, paralyzed by anxiety and seemingly a prisoner of her own making. She learns that her identical twin has died in her apartment in New York, worlds away from Molly’s home in London. She sucks up her anxiety and heads across the pond. It gets trippy as hell from there. I will not give any spoilers, this was one of the better thrillers I’ve read in a long time, but holy moly was I shocked. When I thought I had it completely figured out, I was slapped across the face with a twist better than anything I could ever put in a gin and tonic. Fans of murder thrillers will absolutely love this one.

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