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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: No
dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The book held my interest, even though it was a little hard in the beginning, it was worth it to stick it out. The story is told from THREE POVs (I HATE that). Sam, Lidia, and Claire. Sam is writing letters to his missing daughter. It would have been helpful for me to understand beforehand that Lidia and Claire are sisters, Sam is their dad, writing to their missing sister. 

The story ends up being unbelievable due to the fact that
Claire was married to an absolute monster for 18 years and she had no clue? Like, how dumb do you have to be? I will give props to the author that it was interesting to view that whole process as the reader, questioning Claire’s reality, and not knowing who to trust. The darkness in this book however is incredibly dark and disturbing. I had to fast forward through some parts and honestly wasn’t able to physically press the skip button as many times as I wanted. 

I feel like that story would have been a little better in it had taken some different turns, like Paul was actually not the serial killer, and he wasn’t actually alive. I would have loved to finally have a reveal that Paul WAS really an amazing husband, but he was actually and undercover spy or CIA or FBI or something like that. That would have been way cooler imo. 


So much content to flag and trigger warnings. It is dark. 

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4.5 ⭐️

Wow. That was heavy. I was truly on the edge of my seat.
challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Good book that I wish I hadn’t read and would never recommend to someone..

Well written and well narrated but as other reviewers have mentioned, straight up torture porn.

I’m far from prudish. But I wasn’t sure I was going to finish this one.
dark emotional sad tense fast-paced
dark sad tense fast-paced
Strong character development: Yes

4.25
challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes