Book Review: The Woman In The Mirror (An Alexandra Mallory Novel) by Cathryn Grant

Book Review: The Woman In The Mirror (An Alexandra Mallory Novel) by Cathryn Grant

Publisher: D2C Perspectives

Alexandra Mallory is a murderer. She is looking for a place to live and blend in to obscurity for a while and she believes a house on the edge of a cliff is the perfect place to do it. She rents a room from the home’s owner, Noreen Palmer, and soon finds out that she will have a roommate. His name is Jared and he becomes obsessed with Alexandra almost instantly.

Noreen is quirky, clinging and annoying. Alexandra does her utmost best to avoid her and fails. Noreen claims that she feels a connection to Jared but it is clearly one sided. She also claims that there is a ghost in the mirror. What starts out as weird quirkiness soon changes into obsessive and crazy behavior.

The character of Jared was a hot mess. He walks out of his job one day in an effort to find himself. As soon as he meets Alexandra all of his good intentions fall to the wayside. His only focus from then on is getting her into his bed and into his life. He becomes a needy jerk that won’t take no for an answer. He is almost stalker-like in his new behavior. His constant whining made me cringe.

Alexandra is written as a bad ass and that’s not a good thing here. She has little to no redeeming qualities. She feels that her purpose is to bring a vigilante type justice to people that are evil to the world when in reality she just kills people that piss her off. There was nothing in this character or any of the others that made me like them.

There’s an obvious twist to the story but it comes so late in the game you just kind of go “oh, okay” and move on. This is supposed to be the first in a reported series. You would think if that was the case the author would not have tried to jam in so many flashbacks in the first book. I understand that you need to learn Alexandra’s history but this book went back and forth to so many flashbacks it felt bogged down.

The ending was predictable. If there is in fact a second book I might give it a try to see if Alexandra’s story gets more interesting. I finished this book in a few hours so if you are looking for something to fill time this would be a good book for you. The story isn’t bad but I think it needed to be fleshed out more.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley.com in exchange for my honest review.