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Close To Me by Amanda Reynolds

4.0

This book was a slow burner for me. I slowly was introduced to each character and I was drawn into their lives. When Jo Harding fell down the steps at home, she wakes up groggy and sore and without a memory of the last year and her husband wants to keep it that way. The last few memories she has is dropping her son off at the university. Jo is having difficulties remembering the night she fell and what she does remember are bits and pieces she does know she keeps getting the feeling of fear towards her husband Rob and a relief every time he goes to work. Rob keeps reminding her how happy they were and how their the perfect couple. If this was true why does their daughter inform her that he told her not to bring up the last year. Rob informs Jo that her phone broke when she fell and gives her a new one with just his number in it and she keeps having nightmares of her fall and Rob pushing her. Jo decides to investigate the last year of her life and it starts with her children and the place she previously volunteered at and she does this without her husband knowing. The more she digs the more she starts to realize maybe they weren’t the perfect couple or family and her husband may be hiding more than she realizes. This book was definitely a psychological thriller that evolves around family drama.