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A review by marmasip
Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard
3.0
Another day, another false culprit for Emma to follow...
At least this one offered a bit of background information about the mother, but there are still a number of things not clear for me:
- She didn't know she was having twins? So she showed up at her parents after the birth, with just one of them to offer. They made it sound as if she returned home for some time before the birth.
- Why did she keep the other twin? To probe to herself that she could be a good mom? And why didn't she send Emma back with her grandparents instead of just abandoning her? She had 13 years to come clean! She could have been mentally stable enough at some point, maybe when she was having her 3rd daughter.
- What did she do that was so awful? I get that maybe you don't want her around, but keep an eye on the distance? And all the speech of Mrs Mercer to Emma about " you are my daughter and I will always love you". Yeah, we have proof that this is not what happens in that family... They better have a very good explanation about the full banishment for life & mind.
- Are Madison & Thayer twins? If yes, how many twins are in these books? If not, how are they in the same grade? Because I think it's mentioned that Thayer is also a senior.
Now I can finally start the last book and find out how are they going to solve this mess.
The murderer is the least of my concerns, I think that Ethan is being slowly painted in a less flattered light so that we start to not like him very much and we are not upset when he is the bad guy. I'm not the kind to easily guess the murdered, but in this case it was pretty obvious since book 2. Unless it's not Ethan and I will have to eat my words. But we got a new "clue": the mental case file. The explanation seemed a bit off to me. Which means, it doesn't make any sense at all. And of course, Nisha could have been snooping around, being a volunteer there.
Speaking of, poor Nisha. I liked her. And I'm really sad for her dad
At least this one offered a bit of background information about the mother, but there are still a number of things not clear for me:
- She didn't know she was having twins? So she showed up at her parents after the birth, with just one of them to offer. They made it sound as if she returned home for some time before the birth.
- Why did she keep the other twin? To probe to herself that she could be a good mom? And why didn't she send Emma back with her grandparents instead of just abandoning her? She had 13 years to come clean! She could have been mentally stable enough at some point, maybe when she was having her 3rd daughter.
- What did she do that was so awful? I get that maybe you don't want her around, but keep an eye on the distance? And all the speech of Mrs Mercer to Emma about " you are my daughter and I will always love you". Yeah, we have proof that this is not what happens in that family... They better have a very good explanation about the full banishment for life & mind.
- Are Madison & Thayer twins? If yes, how many twins are in these books? If not, how are they in the same grade? Because I think it's mentioned that Thayer is also a senior.
Now I can finally start the last book and find out how are they going to solve this mess.
The murderer is the least of my concerns, I think that Ethan is being slowly painted in a less flattered light so that we start to not like him very much and we are not upset when he is the bad guy. I'm not the kind to easily guess the murdered, but in this case it was pretty obvious since book 2. Unless it's not Ethan and I will have to eat my words. But we got a new "clue": the mental case file. The explanation seemed a bit off to me. Which means, it doesn't make any sense at all. And of course, Nisha could have been snooping around, being a volunteer there.
Speaking of, poor Nisha. I liked her. And I'm really sad for her dad