itsmrgeektoyou 's review for:

The Night Before by Wendy Walker

4.0

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The Night Before by Wendy Walker was an excellent thriller and extremely engaging! This book used one of my favorite writing techniques, multiple timelines / perspectives. Each chapter alternates between 1 of 3 different perspectives: The Present Day, The Night Before and Laura's Therapy Sessions. The whole plot revolves around Laura Lochner. After a terrible breakup, Laura decides to leave her life in New York, return back to her hometown and move in with her sister Rosie, brother-in-law and nephew. Laura has a dark past that seems to follow her around but has decided to put that all behind her and start dating again. Laura meets a man on an online dating site and they decide to meet up. Everything is great until Laura doesn't return home and seems to have disappeared into thin air. Rosie immediately begins to worry, not about her sister, but the man she was seeing. While I felt like the first 75 pages were a little slow, the rest of the book absolutely flew by (I read about 200 pages yesterday). There were some interesting twists sprinkled throughout (and I managed to figure out where this was going by roughly the halfway point). I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to all fans of the thriller / suspense genre! 4 out of 5 stars