Marion

 

Norman picked the wrong woman to mess with.

What if Marion had fought back?

Thank you to Macmillan Audio for the gifted early listen.

I watched Psycho right before listening to this one. My timing is impeccable. 🎬🔪

Marion by Leah Rowan takes the bones of Hitchcock’s classic: a woman on the run with stolen money, a desolate roadside motel, a creepy innkeeper. And blows up the ending you know. In this retelling, creepy innkeeper Norm Billings attacks Marion, but she doesn’t die in that shower. She fights back. And then things get very interesting.

What I loved most is that Rowan doesn’t just swap out the ending and call it a day. She builds a completely new story around a woman fueled by fierce love for her sister and pent-up female rage. The dual narrators, Natalie Naudus and Tawny Platis, handle the two POVs beautifully. Their narrations convey the book's creepiness and rage. 

Fair warning: Hannah’s backstory slows things down a bit in the middle, but it’s necessary scaffolding. Stick with it.

This is Leah Rowan’s debut, and if she keeps writing books that reimagine classic Hitchcock through a modern feminist lens, I’m in for every single one.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — A tension filled, girl-power thriller that Hitchcock himself would have to respect. Marion releases June 2.

if you're looking for another thriller with a feminist angle, you might be interested in Killer Potential.

About the Author

Leah Rowan is an author living in Brooklyn and the Catskills. Marion is her forthcoming thriller.

For more news and information about Leah, visit her website.