Reviews with content warning for Kidnapping - Darling Rose Gold

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙙:
🦋 Very much a page turner! I finished this in a single day.
🦋 You literally can't trust anyone in this book - the entire time I went back and forth as to whose "side" I was on.
🦋 There's a big twist at the end that I did NOT see coming!

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝘿𝙞𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚:
🦋 Felt a little bit like a knock-off of Gypsy Rose Blanchard's story, but Wrobel put a BIG spin on it.
🦋 I thought it kind of glorified Munchausen's by proxy a little bit? Like yeah, we hear about the horrible things done to Rose Gold, but it felt like Rose Gold was able to just kind of get over it like it was no big deal. Along the same lines, Rose Gold was WAY more self-sufficient than she should have been after 18 years of horrible abuse.

𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙄𝙛 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙙:
🦋 If you're interested in learning about Manchausen's By Proxy and love a good thriller, this is for you.

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eljoseph24's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Rose Gold was a victim of her mothers mental illness (Munchausen by proxy) and for years believed that she was ill. Endless doctors appointments, a wheelchair, feeding tubes - she was put through a hell of a lot. She struggles socially, her teeth are ruined with years of vomiting and she is desperate to try and regain the time that she lost.
Patty has served her time in prison for what she did to her daughter and is about to be released - where better to stay that with Rose Gold and repair the damage caused by the injustice of her sentence.
Mother and daughter are reunited much to the horror of the community but Rose Gold isn't the same little girl that she was 5 years ago and isn't as easy to control as before. Patty wants her daughter back under her control and Rose Gold wants to be forever free from Patty.

This book was dark, tense and addictive. The battle of wills between mother and daughter made it really difficult to put down. We get flashbacks to when Rose Gold was trying to establish her life on her own and what brought her back to her mother alongside the present day setting. There were a few possibilities of how this story was going to resolve and i was hooked until i found out. The resolution was satisfying in an odd sort of way and I only caught on to what was happening right before the reveal. The characters were all flawed but very compelling to read about (if you need a clear 'good guy' to root for then you won't find it here) I really enjoyed this book and would highly recommend if you like a psychological thriller type.

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adriennne's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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