A review by prose_mortem
The Summer We Lost Her by Tish Cohen

2.0

Honestly, I was so disappointed in this book. The author clearly has talent and knows how to set up a story, but there was literally no climax! It was just a story about some horrible nextdoor ho toying with someone else's husband... and the kidnapping that takes place is really wobbly and has no catharsis. All the pieces were in place for a great read, but the author just didn't deliver. I thought for sure Cass had secretly kidnapped Gracie and that we would eventually find out that her son River was a lost child she had kidnapped years before too... something along those lines... but it's kind of just a story about a wife being okay with a shitty husband and a horrible woman next door treating people like garbage. I guess I thought this would be more like a thriller, but it's just a watered down story about an unlucky wife becoming "okay" with living with a rotten husband and putting up with another woman's disrespect.