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paulabrandon 's review for:
The Sister
by Louise Jensen
Another day, another psychological thriller with an "unreliable" female narrator! Grace has a complete breakdown after the death of her best friend Charlie. A year after the death, she opens a memory box and learns that Charlie's greatest wish was to know her father and sets about tracking him down. It leads her to meet Anna, Charlie's half-sister, who quickly moves into her home. That's when weird things in Grace's life starts happening....
I didn't find anything here to set it apart from the dozens of other thrillers cluttering the bookstore shelves these days. There was no brilliant twist that I could see! Grace's sheer stupidity in regards to Anna is highly frustrating. Anybody with even a two-figure IQ would have given the bitch the boot within days! The book requires its characters to behave in non-believable ways in order to keep the plot going and artificially create mystery behind certain events when there's no need for it. There's no conceivable reason for the details behind Grace's father's death to be kept secret for so long! Nor the reasons behind Charlie's death either! The climax is lackluster.
After a slow start, it makes for a diverting read, but if a book is going to stand out in this extremely saturated market, it needs more thrills and spills than what is found in these pages!
I didn't find anything here to set it apart from the dozens of other thrillers cluttering the bookstore shelves these days. There was no brilliant twist that I could see! Grace's sheer stupidity in regards to Anna is highly frustrating. Anybody with even a two-figure IQ would have given the bitch the boot within days! The book requires its characters to behave in non-believable ways in order to keep the plot going and artificially create mystery behind certain events when there's no need for it. There's no conceivable reason for the details behind Grace's father's death to be kept secret for so long! Nor the reasons behind Charlie's death either! The climax is lackluster.
After a slow start, it makes for a diverting read, but if a book is going to stand out in this extremely saturated market, it needs more thrills and spills than what is found in these pages!