Reviews - When She Returned

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When She Returned

Lucinda Berry

3.78 AVERAGE

torreadssss's review against another edition

5.0

WHEW. This book put me THROUGH IT, right until the very end. I had a feeling the ending was coming but didn’t want to believe it. One of her best books.

sathyasekar's review against another edition

4.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I think this would have made for an excellent literary character and relationship analysis kind of book. A wife gone missing, husband still in love but moves along and remarries a widow, who has fallen deeply in love with him. An apparently happy home now with children from both husband and wife's first marriages. Then, the missing wife returns. An excellent premise. The author decides to handle this more as a mystery, eventually leading to an unsatisfying, tame ending. But that does not detract from how brilliantly she unravels the threads that bind the different people affected by the return of the long-missing wife. I was constantly wondering where my sympathies lie, as every character seemed justified in behaving as they did. The multiple narrators also helped in giving this a very authentic feel. Good stuff!

bajebookclub's review

3.75

mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

spikedscrubs's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Phew. I need a cigarette after that one. I am emotionally exhausted! Lucinda Berry books are an absolutely mind fuck whirlwind. So much drama & emotion & twisted plot lines.

An investigative journalist looking into a new “rehab center” gets pulled into a cult. The story follows her as she gets sucked into a religious cult as well as her family who she leaves behind. She shows up years later, with a baby. What happened, where did she go & why/how did she come back?