Featuring the lush writing from Rae Knowles that we've all come to know and love coupled with the masterfully done creeping sensation that something is not quite right, THE STRADIVARIUS is a twisty debut that should not be missed!

Unpopular opinion, but as an avid reader of different genres most especially with thrillers, mysteries, and suspense, there's really nothing new to see here. It was pretty predictable for me.

Her being high most of the time took out the thrill of the fever dreams that she was experiencing because I just brushed it off as <I>"she was high, it was not real, it was just her imagination." </I> It made me indifferent and nonchalant to what was going on around her. (Maybe take out the part where we demonstrated her penchant for weed, perhaps? So the reader will be left wondering if her hallucinations were real or not)

One thing I find revolutionary about her debut novel is the use of they/them/their pronoun in literature! This was the first book I've ever read that took that to the literature level for Ollie and it keeps throwing me off. 😁 My brain was running a mile a minute and like -bam! I felt like I hit a brick wall. There was this incident where Ollie was talking to Mae and the sentence, "They extended their arms." I'm like, why would they extend their arms? 🤔And it takes me a moment to realize that she was talking about Ollie.

Please don't come at me for that, I love my LGBTQIA friends and I am an ally, I'm just saying that what she's doing here is something I haven't read before and definitely something I'll never forget.