Thriller Book Review: Lasting Damage by Sophie Hannah

Oh hey every one! 🙋🏻‍♀️ Hope everything’s well and good with you all! And.. a happy wintery and chilly January to you! The temperatures keep dropping and dropping and we literally need to beg the sun to show us its face 😅.

Here’s the review of Lasting Damage, a psychological thriller written by Sophie Hannah. And it’s not just a simple and cliché book of the genre.. it’s filled with the kinda gripping story line that will at first make you hold your breath and then ka-boom!! give you a punch!

Lasting Damage by Sophie Hannah

The story revolves around a woman, who late at night witnessed a dead woman’s body on the virtual tour of a house she is obsessed with. But the body disappears when her husband checks up on the tour.

Whose body that was?

Was it even real?

Was it just a fragment of her imagination?

She goes out to seek all these answers, taking help any and every way she can. All through the tale, we get to know about hidden secrets, details, lives and aspects of all those who get involved in the story line.

Sometimes, the truth is right in front of us, but it gets folded under so many layers of deception and falsehood that it becomes nearly distant.. That’s exactly what happened with the protagonist in the book.

This book truly left me dumbfounded. Like, I was literally sitting there for nearly half an hour thinking- WHAT?! Did just what I read was really what I read? 😅

Read this book. Really. Even if this will leave you hollow-ish.

P.S. This book might be a continuation to the Spilling CID series (this being book 6) by Sophie Hannah with some recurring characters but since I didn’t know about it, this book in itself was a worthy read as a standalone 😄.

“How was it possible to love a place when you’d been nothing but miserable there? In the same way that it was possible to love a person with whom you were miserable.” – Connie Bowskill