Book Review

Basic Details:

Book Title: Linger, When You're Gone

Subtitle: A Romantic Psychological Thriller

Author: Chitra Padmana

Genre: Crime, Thriller & Mystery

Part of a series? No

Order in series:

Best read after earlier books in series?

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57362934-linger-when-you-re-gone

Overall score:

I scored this book 4/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

Miris suffers from hyperosmia. She can smell more than normal people can and has used this to help the police in solving cases before.

Then her friend dies in mysterious circumstances and the smell of her controlling, abusive ex-boyfriend rears its ugly head. A boyfriend who died several years ago.

Miris gets close to Sam and Saira, her neighbours and then things start to get out of hand.

What I liked about the book:

The book was action-packed and difficult to put down.

What I didn’t like about the book:

There was nothing not to like.

My favourite bits in the book:

The suspense and thriller elements.

My least favourite bits in the book:

There weren’t any.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

I’m not sure if the author has written any other books.

What books could this be compared to and why?

It is difficult to find a book to compare this one with. It is a good thriller and would lend itself to being made into a movie.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

Children No

Young Adult Maybe

Adult Yes

If you like thrillers, this book may be the book for you.

I’m certainly looking forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

“If I were wired to sense just one thing in this entire world, it would be the smell of you. Not flowers, not petrichor. Not liquid ink or pages of a new book. You. Just You. Filling all the spaces of my being.”

For Miris, her keen sense of smell has always been a blessing and a bane. For years, she has wrapped herself in seclusion to escape the dark memories of her past. When the mysterious death of her best friend sends her world crashing down, she finds herself in a dangerous quagmire of nostalgia and temptation as terrifying secrets emerge.

Then one day… she’s suddenly engulfed by his essence.

Roy, who she’d promised to love forever.

Roy, who was never supposed to come back.

Plunged into cyclic nightmares, Miris will have to navigate the haunted realms of hallucination and reality as help and deception arrive in unexpected forms.

Will Sam and Saira, her friendly neighbours become twin rays of the sunshine she craves or will they be consumed by her darkness?

Is this insanity? Or a sinister presence?

‘Linger, when you’re gone’, a unique psychological thriller packed with romance and suspense, will quicken your pulse and keep it racing!

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