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Blood Sisters by Rebecca Frost

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lisam0183_bookworm's review

4.0

Nessa has to live with the fact her brother, Brent, is in jail for killing women. Trying to live her own life she becomes embroiled in a theory from twins that Brent didn't act alone. Nessa then needs to find out what happened, which means digging up things from her past that she had buried.

I was on edge reading this book. Not knowing what was going to happen next made me feel nervous, but also that I needed to keep going to find out what happened. Nessa just seemed to face everything head on and always had her husbands feelings at the forefront of her mind. I loved how they both felt like they needed to protect each other.

kaz_loves_books's review

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dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Brent Wright didn’t have a very good childhood with his dad dying of cancer while he was growing up and then having to find an after school job to pay his way at home and still study. His mum and stepdad threw him out one day and changed the locks so he had to start afresh. He was concerned for his sister Vanessa, who was younger than him.

He was infatuated with Sunni Bowen, who was fifteen at the time and he was older and her twin sister Skye, used to hang around with them too. Sunni’s roommate was Victoria Tanner during their last year of college. One year in college, Sunni had shared with someone doing CSI so she had been doing that as a major, so they learnt how to clean the kill sites so brilliantly. Skye and Victoria tracked Vanessa down to float their theory that Sunni was the killer and set her brother Brent Wright up to take the fall. She made herself a body so she could disappear and then she killed Jessica with Brent. She probably had been living with him until she had to disappear. They had prepared a big file with all the information in it to give to Vanessa to give to her to read to see what she thought of it.

Why wait ten years to bring this up? Could Sunni still be alive as a body was never found? Where could Skye have gone as she has disappeared? Could she have been kidnapped?

This is quite an interesting book to read and I got hooked as soon as I started reading it. The plot is a really intriguing one and woven into a storyline that is just brilliant. There is a lot of tension, with Vanessa not having any family of her own any longer and not a good homelife when she was young. On her husband’s side, there is a big family, twelve children with them all married and them, the only childless couple. Feelings have been running high since all this came out and about Vanessa’s upbringing. It makes for a very intense read from start to finish. I really enjoyed it.

archane's review

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dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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