Description:

Succession meets Megan Abbott in this seductive, technological suspense about the dramatic downfall of one of America’s most affluent families.

The old-money Wieland family has it all—wealth, status, power. They’re also famously cursed.

Clara and her brother, Teddy, grew up on a small island in Maine in the shadow of their parents’ tragic deaths, haunted by rumors and paparazzi. Fourteen years later, they’ve mostly put their turbulent past to rest. Teddy has married Clara’s best friend, Jess, and the three of them have moved back home to take over the sprawling, remote family mansion known as Vantage Point.

Then Teddy decides to run for the Senate—an unnerving prospect made much worse when intimate videos of Clara are leaked online. The most frightening part is that she doesn’t remember filming any of them. Are the videos real? Or are they deepfakes? Is someone trying to take down the Wielands once and for all?

Everyone thinks Clara is losing her grasp on reality. But she knows the truth: the videos are only the beginning. Years ago, the curse destroyed her parents. Now, it’s coming for her.

Sara Sligar, the critically acclaimed author of Take Me Apart, returns with a shocking family drama full of suspense. Brimming with palpable tension, Vantage Point carefully unravels a twisted web of family secrets and political ambition that raises questions about the nature of “truth” in our digital age.

Adele’s Review:

Vantage Point is the Wieland family mansion, built on a small island off the coast of Maine. It’s also where generations of Wieland’s have been famously cursed. Not long after Clara Wieland, her brother Teddy, and his wife Jess move into the mansion, bad things begin to happen. These events caused this reviewer to wonder, “Do family curses become self-fulfilling prophecies?”

Clara is a damaged, fragile young woman and the protagonist of this story. I empathized with her throughout the tale and rooted for her through a life-shattering crisis. How she confronts the ordeal and the changes it brings is at the heart of the story.

Vantage Point is a modern-day gothic novel with all the nuances and atmosphere of a vintage tale set in our technological time. The writing is good, the story is entertaining, and the ending is satisfying.

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7004384034

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CGRXVD8H