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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
I really enjoyed this and listened to it in two days. I had guessed the mystery early on, but there were plenty of enjoyable moments.
challenging
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
I received a free ARC from NetGalley in response for my honest review. For those who enjoy books with unexpected twists and turns, this one does not disappoint. Mixed in is the backstory going back several months alternating between the mother and daughter point of view. You begin at the end and as you read, pieces start to fall into places, while some answers just open up more questions. The book is well done, fast paced, and made for a good read.
Sad ending but great story. I couldn’t put it down.
Summary: two times lines. It starts with the mother learning her daughter has fallen and is now brain dead. Due to some bruising on the wrists, she insists her daughter was murdered. She spends the next few weeks chasing around to figure out what happened since the police are off the case. In alternating chapters, we hear from the teen daughter, starting out a few weeks before she “fell”.
It’s a story of secrets and lies and numerous people with motives. For example, the father is an abusives ex boyfriend. The mother had insisted the father died before she was born but her daughter catches her mom in a lie which leads her to looking for her father in the weeks before her death. Her mother also finds startling images on her daughters phone that suggest she was being bullied at school. The book chases several story lines: who the father is and why the mother is paranoid/lied, who was the bully and why, who the father is of the daughters baby (the teen died pregnant), etc etc
Not much in terms of unique or unusual but a steady read that keeps the pages turning.
Summary: two times lines. It starts with the mother learning her daughter has fallen and is now brain dead. Due to some bruising on the wrists, she insists her daughter was murdered. She spends the next few weeks chasing around to figure out what happened since the police are off the case. In alternating chapters, we hear from the teen daughter, starting out a few weeks before she “fell”.
It’s a story of secrets and lies and numerous people with motives. For example, the father is an abusives ex boyfriend. The mother had insisted the father died before she was born but her daughter catches her mom in a lie which leads her to looking for her father in the weeks before her death. Her mother also finds startling images on her daughters phone that suggest she was being bullied at school. The book chases several story lines: who the father is and why the mother is paranoid/lied, who was the bully and why, who the father is of the daughters baby (the teen died pregnant), etc etc
Not much in terms of unique or unusual but a steady read that keeps the pages turning.
I really enjoyed this story! It painted a picture of growing up, love, loss, heartache, and healing.
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
While I wouldn't consider this book a thriller, it is still an enjoyable mystery. The plot is unique and interesting and I suppose it could be realistic. I will be looking forward to more from this author in the future. My thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for providing an advance review copy of this book.
A huge part of the plot of this book was that a brain dead teenager was on life support for months so her body could be used as a human incubator for her unborn fetus. And the book absolutely did not grapple with any of the moral or ethical implications of that. Aside from being completely unrealistic, it also portrayed the birth of the life support baby as some sort of joyous event through which the dead mother could live on. I had the hardest time getting past that entire premise, but on top of that, the writing was juvenile, the characters were undeveloped and stereotypical, the “mystery” was predictable, and the portrayal of teenage life was like a poorly directed lifetime movie. It bumped up one single star for me only because the ending tugged at my heartstrings (as long as I could ignore the gruesome birth of a baby being pulled out of its dead mother), and the writing at the end finally was decent.
Page 23 and I quit. I might have enjoyed the writing style when I was 15. Maybe.
Direct quote: “I picked at the edge of my sandwich until it was as bare as a stone.”
Direct quote: “I picked at the edge of my sandwich until it was as bare as a stone.”