Creep - Jennifer Hillier - 4 stars

I have had this book forever and finally decided to get it read. I was feeling like a creepy thriller so this was the perfect book to choose. So glad that I finally got to this one.
Synopsis
If he can’t have her . . .

Dr. Sheila Tao is a professor of psychology. An expert in human behavior. And when she began an affair with sexy, charming graduate student Ethan Wolfe, she knew she was playing with fire. Consumed by lust when they were together, riddled with guilt when they weren’t, she knows the three-month fling with her teaching assistant has to end. After all, she’s finally engaged to a kind and loving investment banker who adores her, and she’s taking control of her life. But when she attempts to end the affair, Ethan Wolfe won’t let her walk away.

. . . no one else can.

Ethan has plans for Sheila, plans that involve posting a sex video that would surely get her fired and destroy her prestigious career. Plans to make her pay for rejecting him. And as she attempts to counter his every threatening move without her colleagues or her fiancé discovering her most intimate secrets, a shattering crime rocks Puget Sound State University: a female student, a star athlete, is found stabbed to death. Someone is raising the stakes of violence, sex, and blackmail . . . and before she knows it, Sheila is caught in a terrifying cat-and-mouse game with the lover she couldn’t resist—who is now the monster who won’t let her go.

Loved the storyline to this book. That is what really drew me into it. It has the feel of the Gretchen Lowell series by Chelsea Cain. I really enjoy these 'psychotic driven' thrillers. It turned out much different than I first thought it would. I really love thrillers that can surprise me like this one did. It also helped that it had great pacing and was so fluid to read. I also really liked the writing style of this author and I especially liked the cliffhanger at the end, which is really what has driven me to just go ahead and read the next book in the series, Freak. I am looking forward to the continuation of this story.

I really liked the characters as well. I think they were well written and pretty sure they will show up in the next book. At first I was a little unsure about the main protagonist, Sheila, and if I was going to like her and who she was. I was on the fence for a little while, but as the story moved on she grew on me and I began to understand who she was. There were a lot of great characters in this story. I really enjoyed the PI and wished there would have been more of him. So I am hopeful I can read more about him in the next book.

I recommend this to anyone who loves these thrillers involving psychopaths and their warped minds! It does get a little sexually explicit in some parts of the book, but not really over the top. Definitely worth the read!