Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
Thank you to Celadon Books for the gifted copy of Saint X in exchange for my honest review.
Book Synopsis from Goodreads
Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison’s body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men – employees at the resort - are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives.
Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth - not only to find out what happened the night of Alison’s death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? At seven, Claire had been barely old enough to know her: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation.
As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth, an unlikely attachment develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy.
My Review
Saint X is divided into sections and these sections are narrated by different perspectives of the characters in the novel. I found that I enjoyed some sections more than others and I feel that I enjoyed the sections narrated by "Emily" the most of all the narrators in this novel. I found the chapters narrated by Emily the most interesting because they looked at her obsession with finding out more about what happened to her sister and of discovering more about Clive "Gogo" from the resort where the family went on their vacation to the Caribbean island of Saint X.
I liked the authors writing style and for me this is what made the book an enjoyable read. I feel like there are parts that could have been less of a focus or part of the writing, like some of the narrators parts in the novel, as I feel this made the book drag on a bit particularly in the second half of the reading.
My Rating: 3/5
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Book Details
Author: Alexis Schaitkin.
Publisher: Celadon Books.
Publication Date: February 4, 2020.
Genre: Thriller. Suspense. Fiction. Mystery. Contemporary Fiction. Crime. Adult.
Edition: Hardcover.
Pages: 343.