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This book was very…meh. It felt like it was building up to something, but the ending. didn’t do much for me. I figured it would take a while to build up like most thrillers, but there ended up being no real pay-off.

I also don’t understand why Eden lied and said she remembered Larry in the first place. I guess just because of how she is with her rebellious demeanor? I found that to be somewhat surface level and disappointed there was no deeper reason or meaning derived from that. There was no true character development either; Eden ends up being the same as she always has been, and Hope I guess decides in the last few pages to move on from her past. I couldn’t connect with either of the characters so neither of their fates impacted me.

Giving 2 stars only because the chapters about the girls’ abduction were gripping.

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challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This read like a memoir, the story of a young woman Hope who is trying to reconcile the events of the past, the kidnapping of her and her sister, with what happened after. I got so involved in Hope’s search to find her sister and find out what happened in the moments she was unconscious, that I began to believe the story was real, that the kidnapping actually happened. Although the ending was a little ambiguous, I felt that the characters got an ending that fitted them.

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