Marion

Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Macmillan Audio for the review copies of Marion by Leah Rowan with excellent dual narration by Natalie Naudus and Tawny Platis.

Marion is a modern reimagining of Psycho, but this time, Marion fights back and keeps fighting back. And it is awesome.

As a woman who works in a male dominated field who has also experienced micro- and macro-aggressions my whole life, I have felt everything Marion felt, and her reactions when her “Marion-self” emerged were so cathartic.

She keeps getting passed over for promotion in lieu of less experienced men, she’s just learned her sister is being abused by her husband, and now this guy with a knife has just walked in on her showering. What’s a woman to do?

I wasn’t expecting there to be such a good mystery element when the second narrator Hannah, a private investigator, came in, having been hired to find a missing woman which eventually leads to their paths crossing.

Marion isn’t just for Psycho fans. Yes, there will be moments of recognition of similarities and places where Rowan puts a fun or unique twist on the story, but it stands alone as a mystery, a story about family, and, most satisfyingly, a work of feminist rage.