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challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
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:
Yes
Content warning: drowning, cancer, self-harm, infidelity, mental illness, deportation, bullying, death, car crash
Stephanie is haunted by the ghosts of the past. The ghosts of that one summer that split her family apart, that had her best friend deported, and that saw the disappearance of a young man at her family's campsite. The ghosts have secrets, and on the eve of her estranged sister's wedding, the secrets threaten to surface once more.
This was a multilayered twisty, turny thriller that had me guessing to the end. We have the main story arc of "what happened the night the man went missing"; we have the arc of Stephanie and Jennifer; we have the mother's secrets; and much, much more. One thing gets revealed and then another new surprise is lurking in the shadows. The story alternates between the "now" and the "then" to fill in the backstory, and the pace is slow and measured until it's really not.
Told from Stephanie's (unreliable) POV, few of the characters were actually likeable, and the end left me stunned.
I had this book as an ebook via Amazon First, and as an audiobook via NeGalley. The audio narration by Elizabeth Knowelden was an excellent accompaniment to the book, with Knowelden excelling at the accents and the pacing and the emotion to keep the listener on the edge of their seats until the very end.
~I recieved a complimentary copy of this book. All opinions are my own~
Stephanie is haunted by the ghosts of the past. The ghosts of that one summer that split her family apart, that had her best friend deported, and that saw the disappearance of a young man at her family's campsite. The ghosts have secrets, and on the eve of her estranged sister's wedding, the secrets threaten to surface once more.
This was a multilayered twisty, turny thriller that had me guessing to the end. We have the main story arc of "what happened the night the man went missing"; we have the arc of Stephanie and Jennifer; we have the mother's secrets; and much, much more. One thing gets revealed and then another new surprise is lurking in the shadows. The story alternates between the "now" and the "then" to fill in the backstory, and the pace is slow and measured until it's really not.
Told from Stephanie's (unreliable) POV, few of the characters were actually likeable, and the end left me stunned.
I had this book as an ebook via Amazon First, and as an audiobook via NeGalley. The audio narration by Elizabeth Knowelden was an excellent accompaniment to the book, with Knowelden excelling at the accents and the pacing and the emotion to keep the listener on the edge of their seats until the very end.
~I recieved a complimentary copy of this book. All opinions are my own~
Content Warnings
Graphic: Self harm
Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Car accident, Deportation