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Kept me interested but boy was I confused. Last sentence I audibly said “HUH?”.

Couldn’t keep straight who was who.. Clare is the friend with the fucked up parents and kills the parents, then adopts her friend Taylor aka Amber’s family as her own. Then apparently Taylor/amber’s parents end up favoring Clare her whole life. Madeline is Amber/Taylor’s boss but also her aunt who got the house when her parents died.

I was frustrated to no end reading this, constantly wanting to shake some sense into the main character. She never told her husband wtf was going on and I feel like she never got any answers.

“Clare wrote the diaries (Amber’s maiden name was Taylor). Jo was imaginary. Madeline was Clare’s godmother. The last diary entry after Clare killed her parents in the fire was “Taylor made me do it” so we don’t know which one was crazy. Edward was stalking her and kept her in the coma, but Clare had been driving the car when Amber was hurt. She crashed it to end Amber’s pregnancy to keep being the most important person in her life. Amber’s husband read Clare’s diaries, so Amber thought Clare would try to kill him to protect her secret. To protect her husband, Amber set fire to Clare’s house while Amber was watching her kids.

Amber and Paul got custody of Clare’s kids, so the reader assumes she died, but at the very end of the book their childhood bracelet is left in Amber’s hotel room, implying Clare is still alive and watching her.”

brooklynwagner's review against another edition

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mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

xeita's review

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3.0

I wouldn't say I hated this, but I had to leave a review saying I sort of saw the twist coming in a sense because of its similarity to Rock Paper Scissors in the sense that (SPOILER FOR THAT BOOK TOO)
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the flashbacks were not from the perspective we thought they were from. That would've been about a 4-star, but then those SA scenes came out of nowhere and I had to take multiple breaks because of them. I had no clue they were coming and I wasn't ready, nor would I have picked this up to begin with.
The ending sort of made no sense which was also frustrating. I sort of jumped when I turned the page and saw the acknowledgements. (was Ebook so I didn't know how close to the end I was)

I'll admit I convinced myself Amber was going to open her eyes to discover that the hospital was all an elaborate hoax to make her think that's where she was. I let myself down with that one haha.

I'm really glad Alice Feeney seems to have improved since this story.