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THE MAIDENS

 



Wounded by a tragedy, tossed and tousled by a few people, Marianna finds herself amongst a group as she leads them as their internally broken psychotherapist. Entering the college she studied following a call, she comes to believe the fact that behind the walls of art and literature laid obsession and the need for something. The murders of whom she had met kept happening through a postcard which makes her run behind it for her cousin, Zoe. A few characters intrigue us and the most intriguing one was the cult head as they call, Edward Fosca who was a father figure to ‘The Maidens’ special group. With eyes burning in anger and finding clues to solve the puzzle, she ends up getting up a postcard herself. This horrific incident rewrites her perspectives on what she had seen and what she makes out of it now. Written by Alex Michaelides, The Maidens is indeed a mixture of mythology, psychology and life after a tragedy. Even though Marianna is involved in psychotherapy or group therapy, Alex doesn’t imply or drown the readers into the group therapy which might be shoddy. Rather, he throws us instances and memories to prove the points that he had stated in the beginning.

Even through the anxiety, fear and anticipation, it resolves into a few magical moments which are bound to make you smile in between. Yet the sweetness doesn’t make you diabetic either as the next portion is nothing but murder and the fear it creates. With the blend of all the elements of a thriller without clashing, it is a book that you can’t put down when you get into Mariana and her life. The descriptions, history and emotions never lose their track and don’t slipshod or fade into something that is hollow. The different storylines, questions and answers run in both lanes of being solved and remaining a mystery till the end but the emotions don’t stop, nor does the curiosity when it ends without a proper closure.

The Maidens strike off as a better or in fact the best book of the lockdown period, considering his isolation as an author. Even through the pressure, he smashes it out of the park with a review that says ‘The Maidens is better than The Silent Patient’. More than the review, it is the heartbeat and the gruesome horror that capsules us to believe that the extra murders were far better 

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