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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This honestly felt more like I was reading a predictable and somewhat cringy soap opera..
This intense thriller by J. T. Ellison begins with a murder as it is taking place. Then the book segues to the home of Olivia and Park Bender. Tragically, Olivia has just learned that she has suffered yet another miscarriage. This would be a good place to put infertility and miscarriage as trigger warnings in this review. Just as Olivia is trying to figure out how to tell her husband the news, she hears someone knocking on the door. It is the police and they want to talk to her husband Park. They inform the couple that a body has been discovered.
Just as Park is about to declare his innocence, they let him know that the DNA found on the scene belongs to his son. Shock and dismay hit the couple for very different reasons. For Park, the realization that he has a son soon proves that this news is only the tip of the iceberg. For Olivia, desperate to become a mother, discovering that her husband just might possibly be a father already is almost more than she can bear.
There is another story being told. There are a group of young people who have formed an online network that ties all of them together because they came into this world due to IVF and have learned that they all have the same father, none other than Park Bender. Then the fact that this recent murder is in the news it doesn’t take the teenagers long to realize that one of them might very well, in fact, be a murderer.
Meanwhile, Park needs to explain to Olivia how he indeed has become the father to what is soon learned more than a few children. Why has Park keep this a secret and can Olivia get to the truth, all while holding her own secret from him?
What an intriguing story. This story has many aspects, and they all thread together to provide a chilling answer to whoever it was that had been murdered in the very beginning of this book. In fact, there are other murders, and the question keeps circling back to Park. More than that, there are tidbits about Olivia’s past that start to seep into the story, and that just makes this a truly compelling read that was utterly impossible to put down. The twists were many, and the final twist literally blew me away. Every book I have read by J. T. Ellison has been fabulous and this book is definitely one of her best.
Many thanks to MIRA Books and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.
Please enjoy my YouTube video review - https://youtu.be/0uMYkrdo5hM
Just as Park is about to declare his innocence, they let him know that the DNA found on the scene belongs to his son. Shock and dismay hit the couple for very different reasons. For Park, the realization that he has a son soon proves that this news is only the tip of the iceberg. For Olivia, desperate to become a mother, discovering that her husband just might possibly be a father already is almost more than she can bear.
There is another story being told. There are a group of young people who have formed an online network that ties all of them together because they came into this world due to IVF and have learned that they all have the same father, none other than Park Bender. Then the fact that this recent murder is in the news it doesn’t take the teenagers long to realize that one of them might very well, in fact, be a murderer.
Meanwhile, Park needs to explain to Olivia how he indeed has become the father to what is soon learned more than a few children. Why has Park keep this a secret and can Olivia get to the truth, all while holding her own secret from him?
What an intriguing story. This story has many aspects, and they all thread together to provide a chilling answer to whoever it was that had been murdered in the very beginning of this book. In fact, there are other murders, and the question keeps circling back to Park. More than that, there are tidbits about Olivia’s past that start to seep into the story, and that just makes this a truly compelling read that was utterly impossible to put down. The twists were many, and the final twist literally blew me away. Every book I have read by J. T. Ellison has been fabulous and this book is definitely one of her best.
Many thanks to MIRA Books and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.
Please enjoy my YouTube video review - https://youtu.be/0uMYkrdo5hM
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved this! So much going on, but I enjoyed how it all came together at the end. Would definitely recommend.
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes