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¡Qué bueno! Te atrapa enseguida y no puedes dejar de leer, manteniéndote con la intriga hasta casi el final. Muy recomendable, desde luego.
As I neared the end I couldn’t put it down until I finished it. The end was not what I expected. I had imagined a few scenarios and it was different to the scenarios I’d thought up. Great debut by a first time writer. I look forward to more.
Such a thrilling story. I couldn’t stop reading, if I didn’t have to sleep I would’ve finished it in one day. I was really unsure of what was going to happen/who did it which I loved! Highly recommend.
Oooh I do like a bit of Australian crime/suspense fiction. This takes us from Australia to the US, too, for an even stronger international flavour.
Kim is happily living her life in Australia when a man approaches her with a picture of a toddler who went missing in America more than two decades ago. Then he claims she IS that child! Her mother, who would have all the answers, is dead. Her step-father is still getting over her death. Her young sister can't know anything? What can she do?
Kim ends up flying to America for answers, where she learns about the cult the missing child was born into, the new family she might have, and the splits within it.
This is a strong debut, and I admire the writer's choice not to drag out certain elements out, which keeps the story rattling along. The only sliiiiight issue was that I wish the main character could've sat down with her Australian sister/step-father for a proper conversation before she went overseas, but then there would've have been as much of a story to tell.
Naturally, I had to stay up late to finish it (though I always find suspense books difficult to put down past the midway point) and I was pretty satisfied with the end. I'd read another by this author.
Kim is happily living her life in Australia when a man approaches her with a picture of a toddler who went missing in America more than two decades ago. Then he claims she IS that child! Her mother, who would have all the answers, is dead. Her step-father is still getting over her death. Her young sister can't know anything? What can she do?
Kim ends up flying to America for answers, where she learns about the cult the missing child was born into, the new family she might have, and the splits within it.
This is a strong debut, and I admire the writer's choice not to drag out certain elements out, which keeps the story rattling along. The only sliiiiight issue was that I wish the main character could've sat down with her Australian sister/step-father for a proper conversation before she went overseas, but then there would've have been as much of a story to tell.
Naturally, I had to stay up late to finish it (though I always find suspense books difficult to put down past the midway point) and I was pretty satisfied with the end. I'd read another by this author.
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
What if everything you thought you knew about yourself was wrong?
To what lengths would you travel to find the truth?
Gripping mystery- great read.
To what lengths would you travel to find the truth?
Gripping mystery- great read.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
A compelling thriller full of twists and turns, secrets and lies, and snakes!🐍 what would you do if you found out you weren’t who you thought you were your entire life? How would you react if you found out you weren’t Kim Australian photography teacher, but Sammy Kentuckian kidnap victim? This book starts with a BANG and maintains it’s intensity until the very end... A brilliantly crafted perfectly paced debut... BRAVO Christian White!
Kim is leading a relatively uneventful life in Australia.... she has a job she enjoys, a sister who loves her, and she is beginning to get it together after losing her mother to cancer.... then one day a strange American shows up with a picture... a picture of a two-year-old girl who he insists is her.... a two-year-old Sammy Who was kidnapped over 20 years ago from a small town in Kentucky, a two-year-old Sammy who happens to be the sister of the strange American Stew.... after a DNA test and confronting her stepfather, Kim decides to head to America to meet her birth family and to figure out how in the world she ended up in Australia? Kim was expecting some culture shock, but she could not begin to imagine how much culture shock she would be in for....
The book seamlessly weaves the past and present storylines together... it was truly fascinating watching Kim navigate her way through small town Kentucky, meeting her birth family, including her mother who is a snake handler in the Pentecostal church.... The past story was equally intriguing... learning about the family at the time of Sammy‘s disappearance, and trying to figure out the how and the who of it all.... as the layers of both past and present were peeled away the creepier and more intricate the deception got.... and the snakes, oh boy those creepy slithery slimy snakes! Yikes! There are parts of this book that still give me the heebie-jeebies!
An intense story that will satisfy your psychological thriller craving! A trope you may have read before, but with a shiny new unique brilliant twist! This is a thriller not to be missed! Absolutely recommend!
🎧🎧🎧 The narrator of this audiobook was Katherine Littrell and I have only two words for you... AUSTRALIAN ACCENT! She did a really good job, even her American male accents were well done... and I appreciated the fact that she did not even attempt to do a southern accent, sometimes that accent can be a bit over exaggerated... as always the audio narration breathed even more life into this already highly entertaining story, a definite must listen!
🎵🎵🎵 song running through my head... Australia makes me think of this song and having that Australian accent in my ear throughout this book really made me think of this song!
”Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said
Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six-foot-four and full of muscles
I said, "do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said
I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover, yeah”
- Men at Work 1981
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hfmxO-HQ5rU
*** The other song I was contemplating was “Union of the Snake” by Duran Duran, I’m such an 80s girl!
*** A huge thank you to Macmillan Audio/Minotaur Books for my copies of this book ***
Kim is leading a relatively uneventful life in Australia.... she has a job she enjoys, a sister who loves her, and she is beginning to get it together after losing her mother to cancer.... then one day a strange American shows up with a picture... a picture of a two-year-old girl who he insists is her.... a two-year-old Sammy Who was kidnapped over 20 years ago from a small town in Kentucky, a two-year-old Sammy who happens to be the sister of the strange American Stew.... after a DNA test and confronting her stepfather, Kim decides to head to America to meet her birth family and to figure out how in the world she ended up in Australia? Kim was expecting some culture shock, but she could not begin to imagine how much culture shock she would be in for....
The book seamlessly weaves the past and present storylines together... it was truly fascinating watching Kim navigate her way through small town Kentucky, meeting her birth family, including her mother who is a snake handler in the Pentecostal church.... The past story was equally intriguing... learning about the family at the time of Sammy‘s disappearance, and trying to figure out the how and the who of it all.... as the layers of both past and present were peeled away the creepier and more intricate the deception got.... and the snakes, oh boy those creepy slithery slimy snakes! Yikes! There are parts of this book that still give me the heebie-jeebies!
An intense story that will satisfy your psychological thriller craving! A trope you may have read before, but with a shiny new unique brilliant twist! This is a thriller not to be missed! Absolutely recommend!
🎧🎧🎧 The narrator of this audiobook was Katherine Littrell and I have only two words for you... AUSTRALIAN ACCENT! She did a really good job, even her American male accents were well done... and I appreciated the fact that she did not even attempt to do a southern accent, sometimes that accent can be a bit over exaggerated... as always the audio narration breathed even more life into this already highly entertaining story, a definite must listen!
🎵🎵🎵 song running through my head... Australia makes me think of this song and having that Australian accent in my ear throughout this book really made me think of this song!
”Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said
Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six-foot-four and full of muscles
I said, "do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said
I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover, yeah”
- Men at Work 1981
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hfmxO-HQ5rU
*** The other song I was contemplating was “Union of the Snake” by Duran Duran, I’m such an 80s girl!
*** A huge thank you to Macmillan Audio/Minotaur Books for my copies of this book ***
Thanks to St. Martins Press for my free copy.
I enjoyed this thriller. It grabbed me from the beginning, which I appreciated. It definitely kept me on the edge of my seat, wondering what had happened to Sammy/Kim. I thought the flashbacks were interesting and added to the story. This was a pretty straight-forward, easy to read suspense novel. I don't know if I'd necessarily move it to the top of your pile, but I thought it was a decent story overall.
I enjoyed this thriller. It grabbed me from the beginning, which I appreciated. It definitely kept me on the edge of my seat, wondering what had happened to Sammy/Kim. I thought the flashbacks were interesting and added to the story. This was a pretty straight-forward, easy to read suspense novel. I don't know if I'd necessarily move it to the top of your pile, but I thought it was a decent story overall.
I can’t believe this is a debut! To fit so much into this book, yet do it so well, I am impressed.
I love how we switched through each character and time period for each chapter. Each characters story and involvement was detailed and I immediately became engrossed in each chapter.
Very keen to read more from Christian White.
I love how we switched through each character and time period for each chapter. Each characters story and involvement was detailed and I immediately became engrossed in each chapter.
Very keen to read more from Christian White.