lady_icarus 's review for:

Her One Mistake by Heidi Perks

2.0

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I didn’t hate this one. I thought about giving it 3 stars but then changed it to two. I’ve noticed that a lot of books these days seem to have that “surprise” twist ending but too many of them are relying on the same twist or at least a similar twist. Charlotte is tasked with watching Harriet’s daughter Alice. Alice ends up going missing. Harriet and her husband have an obviously strange marriage and that was clear from the jump. It immediately sends up all sorts of red flags so you know something weird is happening. So it wasn’t really much of a shock that by the end of the book, you learn that Brian is emotionally abusive and manipulative and that the whole abduction was set up by Harriet. I found it difficult to believe that Harriet would sacrifice her only friend like that, allowing her to become a pariah but who knows. I can’t exactly put my finger on it, this story just rubbed me the wrong way. Perhaps part of the issue was that I simply didn’t care about any of the characters so I didn’t really care what happened to any of them.