Do Not Open – Kiersten Modglin

Summary

On the day author Mari Morgan receives the email, she has little left to live for.

The message—simple yet utterly life-changing—offers a glimmer of hope to her dismal existence. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime, and if she takes it, it could change everything.

Mari’s immediate sense of unease is eclipsed only by her curiosity—elicited from the supposed fan on the other end of the email. Unsatisfied despite doing her due diligence, and with no way to discern the legitimacy of the sender, Mari takes a leap of faith and replies.

What harm could come from one innocent message?

Soon, as she comes face to face with her ‘number one fan,’ it’s all too clear things are not what they first appeared. Now trapped by a villain far more sinister than she could’ve crafted herself, the fate awaiting her is inspired by the darkest depths of the monsters in her own novels.

In order to escape and survive, Mari must use the strength of the heroines she’s spent years writing about. But this villain has spent years inside her worlds, too.

How will she defeat an evil who has learned from the best?

Review

Oh my god! I literally devoured this book in like 5 hours, I almost actually skipped my gym session to finish it!

I was so, so, so excited to have seen that I had been approved for a copy. I entered this read without knowing much, I actually thought it was about a stalker that kidnapped an author in the middle of the road and we were going to follow the authors journey in escaping, but I was a bit wrong there ha! Sorry, I see #KMod and I click want to read, what can I say.

Now, book talk. This one is DARK.

Or well, darker than I thought definitely. I had only read The Amendment trilogy, The Missing and A Quiet Retreat prior to Do Not Open so I was familiar with a “normal” amount of darkness in Kirsten’s thrillers but this one was upped a notch, so beware this book contains a bit of stronger scenes than other books.

I’m on a KMod marathon this month so to say so I’m pretty glad to now have a new 4 star read from her (meaning: new addition to must buy physical books list). Great read, not very popcorn as others have been like AQR or some Freida Mcfadden’s.

I just wish it was longer!