Book Review: The Resting Place by Camilla Sten – Under The Radar Books

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The Resting Place by Camilla Sten

Synopsis.

The medical term is prosopagnosia. The average person calls it face blindness—the inability to recognize a familiar person’s face, even the faces of those closest to you. When Eleanor walked in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother, Vivianne’s, murder, she came face to face with the killer—a maddening expression that means nothing to someone like her. With each passing day, her anxiety mounts. The dark feelings of having brushed by a killer, yet not know who could do this—or if they’d be back—overtakes both her dreams and her waking moments, thwarting her perception of reality. Then a lawyer calls. Vivianne has left her a house—a looming estate tucked away in the Swedish woods. The place her grandfather died, suddenly. A place that has housed a dark past for over fifty years. Eleanor. Her steadfast boyfriend, Sebastian. Her reckless aunt, Veronika. The lawyer. All will go to this house of secrets, looking for answers. But as they get closer to bringing the truth to light, they’ll wish they had never come to disturb what rests there. A heart-thumping, relentless thriller that will shake you to your core, The Resting Place is an unforgettable novel of horror and suspense.

The Review

THE RESTING PLACE by Camilla Sten Told in alternating points of view I found myself wanting to live in one world more than the other. In the present tense, Eleanor suffers from Prosopagnosia. Also known as face blindness. When I read a few quick facts about this disorder I became even more fascinated by what you could do with a character who suffers from this. Not only do they have trouble recognizing people they know, they also cannot tell between unknown faces and also can mistake faces for objects. The anxiety this brings is palpable and does not get lost in the translation. So you take this character who is disabled and use of her extrasensory perceptions to try and figure out how much danger she’s really in. And by the time she realizes the malice she’s already the frog in hot water. Very good! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Coming March 29, 2022 Thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio/ St Martins Press for this advanced copy!