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A review by lizkatiereads
Six Weeks to Live by Catherine McKenzie
5.0
Jennifer receives the news...a woman in her forties with a terminal brain tumor...her time left is six weeks, and she wants to spend it with her grown children and her grandchildren. After further review of test results, she is convinced that she was poisoned with lead a year prior, deliberately causing her cancer. The only person she suspects is Jake...her current husband who is moved out but has been pressing her for a divorce for quite sometime.
Everyone always suspects a spouse, I mean Jake is a lawyer, so he could probably cover his tracks, but we have some other key players to look at...her current boyfriend, her mother, her best friend, and then her three grown triplet daughters...Aline, Miranda, and Emily. Aline seems to have a strained relationship with her mother, she doesn’t feel sad about what is happening once she learns the prognosis. Emily seems as though she might have a stronger connection with her mother, more than the other two siblings, she seems the most mature, but just might not be living the perfect life everyone thinks. Miranda seems the most timid of the three, also the most needy. She often sides with her father but lives with Jennifer, leaching off of both parents. Miranda also has some skeletons in her closet. Jennifer is convinced it has to be Jake but everyone around her, including her therapist is telling her to listen to herself, that it essentially sounds preposterous.
The thriller aspect of trying to determine who is to blame while also seeing the weight unfold of how each of the three daughters try to cope with the raw emotional truth of losing their mother is absolutely gripping! This book keeps you hooked from beginning to end! The wheels start to turn as the past is brought to light, but also everyone is talking to each other behind Jennifer’s back and they are starting to unearth pieces to this puzzle and the plot thickens in a way you would never imagine! The ending was mind blowing! Just know that every choice comes with a price, a hidden cost...
A special thank you to Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and NetGalley for this eARC in exchange for my honest review!
Everyone always suspects a spouse, I mean Jake is a lawyer, so he could probably cover his tracks, but we have some other key players to look at...her current boyfriend, her mother, her best friend, and then her three grown triplet daughters...Aline, Miranda, and Emily. Aline seems to have a strained relationship with her mother, she doesn’t feel sad about what is happening once she learns the prognosis. Emily seems as though she might have a stronger connection with her mother, more than the other two siblings, she seems the most mature, but just might not be living the perfect life everyone thinks. Miranda seems the most timid of the three, also the most needy. She often sides with her father but lives with Jennifer, leaching off of both parents. Miranda also has some skeletons in her closet. Jennifer is convinced it has to be Jake but everyone around her, including her therapist is telling her to listen to herself, that it essentially sounds preposterous.
The thriller aspect of trying to determine who is to blame while also seeing the weight unfold of how each of the three daughters try to cope with the raw emotional truth of losing their mother is absolutely gripping! This book keeps you hooked from beginning to end! The wheels start to turn as the past is brought to light, but also everyone is talking to each other behind Jennifer’s back and they are starting to unearth pieces to this puzzle and the plot thickens in a way you would never imagine! The ending was mind blowing! Just know that every choice comes with a price, a hidden cost...
A special thank you to Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and NetGalley for this eARC in exchange for my honest review!