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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
When I picked up this book and read the back it interested me considerably. I like reading alot of crime kinda horror books lately so it caught my eye.I wasn't kean kean on it but i thought id give it a try. I started reading and it started in 2002 when she goes back to look after her mother who is suffering from alzemhias. At the exact time she came bk the night before a murder took place in thwe woods the same woods and the same incident that happened to another girl 30 years ago. The kids called her potato girl and everyone knew about potato girl and told stories about her. Kate knew potato girl from waaay back but she always told everyone she never knew her. Kate was best friends with her and always just wanted to fit in. It then flickers back to her childhood 5th grade when the incident happened and leading up to her death. It flickers back and forward as she tries to find out how del died and how the girl in the woods death was connected? Or maybe they wasn't Was potato girl really back from the dead? This is a realy good book to be reading espcieally if you like murder mysteries. It isnt the best book i read but i enjoyed reading it alot
I enjoyed The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon so I resolved to read whatever I could get my hands on by her. I have a similar reaction to her stories as I do to Ruth Ware: I like them, I can't always figure out the whole puzzle, and there's just enough to keep me interested but not enough to blow my socks off.
McMahon's main character in Promise, Kate Cypher, is not a very sympathetic character. Sure, she made some mean girl mistakes as a kid and her "on the downlow" best friend died but Kate just kind of sucked at everything. I think the thing I was most appalled at was her nursing ability. For someone who was an RN, she didn't take care of her mom very well. Maybe that was the point: that she was so guilt-ridden by her treatment of Del that she just kind of sucked at life. A stronger person would have seen life as a gift instead of an endurement? I don't know, I just didn't really like Kate.
But, I was interested in the mystery and I always love a paranormal aspect so that kept me going and I was duly surprised in the end.
I've added the other McMahon works that I can readily get and am interested in them all.
McMahon's main character in Promise, Kate Cypher, is not a very sympathetic character. Sure, she made some mean girl mistakes as a kid and her "on the downlow" best friend died but Kate just kind of sucked at everything. I think the thing I was most appalled at was her nursing ability. For someone who was an RN, she didn't take care of her mom very well. Maybe that was the point: that she was so guilt-ridden by her treatment of Del that she just kind of sucked at life. A stronger person would have seen life as a gift instead of an endurement? I don't know, I just didn't really like Kate.
But, I was interested in the mystery and I always love a paranormal aspect so that kept me going and I was duly surprised in the end.
I've added the other McMahon works that I can readily get and am interested in them all.
I really enjoyed this book. It is a real page turner. I ended up reading this over two days. I would recommend this book!!!
I am typically not a big fan of possession or sci-fi type stuff, i feel like most of the time it is overdone and makes me roll my eyes thinking COME ON. I didn’t love this book(why does the cat have to die?! i also agree “potato” girl certainly took away some of the spooky)but i didn’t hate it. For the ghostly/possession part, i actually found it intriguing, done in a way that really had me thinking “oh sh*t this ghost is legit,” and kept my heart beating fast.
This has the same tired plot and themes as all of Jennifer McMahon's books but with a dozen or so extra plot holes and a weaker ending.
I enjoyed the story - a ghost story mixed with a little "who done it", however I didn't like that the ending just kind of dropped off and nothing else was really said about the main characters. The mystery was solved and she might as well have ended it with "The End". I do enjoy this author though, but I thought her other newer novels were better.
I'm a fan of this author, but this one didn't capture me as much as usual. A grown woman returns to her childhood town in Vermont to assess the health and situation of her mother, who has Alzheimer's. When she was just ten years old, her friend was murdered, and the very night she returns, another girl is. Are they connected? Has the ghost of her dead friend returned? The whole thing was not bad, but just ok.
This book was surprisingly really good! I expected not to enjoy it from the bad reviews I have seen but it came highly recommended from people I trust with recommendations so I gave it a shot and boy am I happy that I did! I enjoyed the way the time jump chapter hops were written and the way the characters were written in. I did not expect what unfolded at all at the end to happen. When it was explained about who the killer was and why they did it I was completely blindsided and I enjoy when that happens in books like this! I also enjoy the plot twist about Opal and the plot twist about Nicky. I also absolutely loved that in the end it wasn't neatly wrapped in a bow about who ended up with whom. 4/5 stars for me!
For mystery/thriller, this was a nice book! You get to jump back and forth in the timelines to get to know all characters and the plot through both time periods!