Random Things Tours: The Vicious Circle by Katherine St. John

 

I am very interested in understanding how and especially why our minds are so blindly following cultish movements and particularly their leaders, either for political or so-called ´wellness´ and ´self-help´ reasons. The nonfictional accounts are usually helpful in understading the factual realities, but the fictional support offers always an incentive to imagination. Because cults, in general, are based less on realities, but on irrealities sold as a steady future.

For the lovers of such creative investigations into the cultish mind, but also for the thriller fans, The Vicious Circle by Katherine St. John offers a captivating read. Sveta is a socialite, with a career in modelling, engaged with a rich and successful man. As her uncle Paul dies suddenly, it seems that she is the inheritor of a wellness empire in the heart of the Mexican jungle. But on the way to paying respect to her uncle, bizarre occurences and coincidences are becoming more worrisome than the chance of being assigned such a fantastic business opportunity. A poisonous present? A conspiracy playing with her assumed innocence. 

Both the action of the book and the characters are blood tingling. There are brutal and greedy characters, manipulative and double-faced. The secrets they hide add other layers of darkness. Sveta is caught into a labyrinth of lies with no escape in sight.

The Vicious Circle is an action packed thriller book, with insights into the dark sides of the brains and equally brainy explorations of the cultish movements, their followers and instigators.

Rating: 4 stars

Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own