Little Does She Know by Pamela Crane

3.66 AVERAGE

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Dual pov 
2 Timelines
Written in 1st person, past tense. 

Prepare your music app of choice for an 80s playlist! 

Set in a cursed corrupted town full of unsavoury characters, and a Covid mask reference so you don't forget it's set in our 2022. 

This is a quick twisty plot driven read, easily devoured. 

Crane does like family secrets & lies, and ghosts from the past returning! 

In fact, I recognised many of the same elements and devices present in A Slow Ruin. 

And I guessed all the reveals πŸ™ˆ There was one where I was like "I don't know how, but it has to be so". I just felt it in my gut, and I was so right, and therefore mad and disgusted! 

I really liked Ginger, she's such a quirky resilient survivor! She infuses a humour to the story. Love her 80s vintage closet! Why throw perfectly good clothes away when fashion is always recycling itself? 

Tara isn't the brightest tool in the shed at times, she jumps the gun and overreacts, but she is sturdy and resilient! I can't agree with her brother enough as she goes basically blaming people left and right, making me question her loyalties! She also treats her 16yo daughter like a baby πŸ™„ 

Yeah. So, she was annoying at times, but at least (so far) she seems to be the only honest one. 

I won't lie, this moment made me tear up:
 "Benny held out his pinkie, hooking it around mine. β€œI pinkie swear to stop him, Mommy. I won’t let him hurt us anymore." 

Use of the word "exotic" to describe a woman of color. It's 2022, haven't we grown past this already? 

It comes with an epilogue that we can choose to read or not. If we want the book to end on a happy note, we don't continue. But we do read it, if we want to get a cliffhanging segue into the sequel. 

Acceptable murder mystery. Some details could be refined. Not much character development. Characters appearing and being ignored, depending on how convenient they are atm. Sloane going to the final family reveal reunion didn't make sense to me.