With a dual narrative throughout and a switching of timeframes, credit must be given to Knight for telling these stories side by side and coherently, thereby delivering a satisfying knitting together of every strand. Although Catherine Revenscroft’s secret involves a crime, this book hasn’t a mystery story plot; no puzzle to solve except a mess of Catherine’s own making. Well as with any book that depends on the reader not knowing very much before they start to appreciate the story, I can’t tell you very much!

Disclaimer forms a trinity alongside “Gone Girl” and the “The Girl on the Train” as the best of domestic noir. DISCLAIMER stealthily steals your attention and by the end holds you prisoner - a searing story that resonates long after the final page.The descriptions were extremely vivid; this work of fiction just about came to life before my eyes and well. is turning into another great year for books, most especially debuts and this one is definitely going to be somewhere near the top of the favourites list come the end of the year – I was totally absorbed into the story and loved the emotion of it as much as the mystery element. The Sinker – Catherine Ravenscroft soon realizes the book she finds by her beside is far more sinister than a light work of fiction. So I got pretty annoyed and DNFed it, but I decided to skim to the end to see if there wasn't something I was missing.

But in starting to read the book, I was a bit disappointed that I never was witness to the moment the protagonist started reading and found it was about her. The story is centered around a mysterious book the main character — Catherine (I'd forgotten her name) — finds in her home. Fast paced, the revelations keep coming and even when I was sold on one theory, another presented itself. She starts reading it, and horrified she discovers that the story is actually about a secret she thought would never see the light of day; a secret only she and someone dead for the past 20 years knew about. When this novel was released to much critical acclaim and spoken of as the next Gone Girl/Girl on a Train I never really considered reading.Convinced the author's revenge tactic will tear her family apart, Catherine becomes obsessed with finding out who has written it, and why. Plunged into a living nightmare, her only hope is to confront what really happened on that awful day—even if the shocking truth might destroy her. I spend a lot of time wishing I was in certain books, but on reflection, am pretty happy i'm not, especially in the starring role. A few parts dragged, and I found myself getting restless again, but then it picked back up, and during the last quarter of the book I couldn't put it down.

Disclaimer would have made a more damning statement of both a marriage and the family unit if perhaps Renee Knight had left the aftermath to the readers imagination. Now that the past Catherine so desperately wants to forget is catching up with her, her world is falling apart.However, the premise was let down by a keep-you-in-the-dark plot and a series of shallow, weak and generally unlikeable characters. Knight also tells the woman’s (Catherine’s) story in second person, while the author of the revealing novel, Stephen, his story is told in first person.