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Her One Mistake
by Heidi Perks
Judging a Book by it's Cover - 2019-01-31
Another domestic thriller. Another hesitant approach. This genre is never ending, and I never want it to end, but I do want to be swept back up in the feelings I felt when I first discovered books like this. I liked the feel and the description of this and went in fairly optimistic.
Review - 2019-02-02
This book started out as one thing, something that seemed fairly structured and formulaic – a missing girl, a bunch of secrets, desperate people trying to find the truth. But very quickly, this story turned into something else, something that was really, really great.
It’s hard to talk about these twists and turns without giving anything away, and this is definitely a book that you want to go into blind, so I will refrain from saying too much outside of expressing my pure enjoyment of this and that I read it in nearly one sitting and was on the edge of my seat the whole time.
The characters were strong; Charlotte was your ordinary hard-working mom with three rambunctious kids of her own and her hands full at all stops. Harriet seemed a little passive and mousy, overprotective of her daughter, but also just heartbreakingly isolated and I really liked the somewhat unexpected friendship that she and Charlotte developed, a friendship that is truly tested the more you read through this. I really loved this friendship and what it meant in this book.
I also really loved how relatable the characters were. Their actions and reactions weren’t always the best choices or perhaps the most politically correct, but they were very real. I could easily see myself having similar thoughts and questions and reactions in a similarly intense and stressful situation. It wouldn’t be something I were proud of, but I think it’s painfully human and I loved that these characters were so painfully flawed and desperate and human.
The story is told from the perspectives of Charlotte and Harriet, both during the time that Harriet’s daughter Alice goes missing and a little further down the line after everything has unravelled. It was a lot of jumping back and forth and a lot of different strands of story being woven together, but Perks does this exceptionally well. It’s very complex and layered but doesn’t come off as overly complicated or jumbled.
Despite the hopping timelines and littered information, things that kept me on my toes through the whole story, it all came together very easily to the point that it seems unbelievable that I didn’t see any of this coming. But I didn’t. It’s very well crafted and subtly sneaky, the writing is strong, it’s perfectly paced and you’re sucked right in feeding off every word that Perks is very intentionally giving you. I can’t tell you how much I love when a book is crafted so amazingly well.
** I received an advance copy of Her one Mistake for honest review from Simon and Schuster Canada and thank them for the opportunity to read this and share my thoughts.
Another domestic thriller. Another hesitant approach. This genre is never ending, and I never want it to end, but I do want to be swept back up in the feelings I felt when I first discovered books like this. I liked the feel and the description of this and went in fairly optimistic.
Review - 2019-02-02
This book started out as one thing, something that seemed fairly structured and formulaic – a missing girl, a bunch of secrets, desperate people trying to find the truth. But very quickly, this story turned into something else, something that was really, really great.
It’s hard to talk about these twists and turns without giving anything away, and this is definitely a book that you want to go into blind, so I will refrain from saying too much outside of expressing my pure enjoyment of this and that I read it in nearly one sitting and was on the edge of my seat the whole time.
The characters were strong; Charlotte was your ordinary hard-working mom with three rambunctious kids of her own and her hands full at all stops. Harriet seemed a little passive and mousy, overprotective of her daughter, but also just heartbreakingly isolated and I really liked the somewhat unexpected friendship that she and Charlotte developed, a friendship that is truly tested the more you read through this. I really loved this friendship and what it meant in this book.
I also really loved how relatable the characters were. Their actions and reactions weren’t always the best choices or perhaps the most politically correct, but they were very real. I could easily see myself having similar thoughts and questions and reactions in a similarly intense and stressful situation. It wouldn’t be something I were proud of, but I think it’s painfully human and I loved that these characters were so painfully flawed and desperate and human.
The story is told from the perspectives of Charlotte and Harriet, both during the time that Harriet’s daughter Alice goes missing and a little further down the line after everything has unravelled. It was a lot of jumping back and forth and a lot of different strands of story being woven together, but Perks does this exceptionally well. It’s very complex and layered but doesn’t come off as overly complicated or jumbled.
Despite the hopping timelines and littered information, things that kept me on my toes through the whole story, it all came together very easily to the point that it seems unbelievable that I didn’t see any of this coming. But I didn’t. It’s very well crafted and subtly sneaky, the writing is strong, it’s perfectly paced and you’re sucked right in feeding off every word that Perks is very intentionally giving you. I can’t tell you how much I love when a book is crafted so amazingly well.
** I received an advance copy of Her one Mistake for honest review from Simon and Schuster Canada and thank them for the opportunity to read this and share my thoughts.