Book Review: I Can Fix Her by Rae Wilde

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“Love is not possession.”

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When Johnny sees her ex, Alice, at a local café, she gets a weird sense of déjà vu. She’s still upset about their breakup, as well as Alice subsequently ceasing communication, but neither can resist the chance to try again. Over the course of their next week together, the couple experiences bizarre things that force them to reevaluate their relationship. Can they truly change, or are they — and reality — bound for inevitable destruction?

I Can Fix Her is a page-turning sapphic horror story of second chances, toxic love, and dark spirals. The plotline packs a wallop in under 100 pages, moving at breakneck pace through Johnny and Alice’s meeting and romantic rekindling, as well as the reopening of old wounds and resurfacing of habitual behaviors. The writing is gorgeous, the narrative voice unique and mysterious, and the premise devastating, unraveling an addictive, harrowing, and nightmarish journey where existence is malleable, infatuation poisonous, and the line between truth and actuality razor-sharp and hair-thin. All of this collides to produce a phenomenal account readers will binge in a single sitting.

It’s a tale of trust, time, and logic; darkness, delusion, and obsession; dreams, promises, and patterns; jealousy, predators, and prey; memory, evolution, and lies; violence, blood, and oblivion; and denial, emptiness, and desolation — one where knowledge is powerless, desire dangerous, choice compulsive, and beginnings and endings repetitive and haunting.

Thank you to CLASH Books for sharing an eARC of this tremendous novella, which is scheduled for publication in June 2025. It’s a mind-bending, heart-rending experience sure to linger in readers’ minds.

🖤Amanda

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