Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Release Date: January 23rd, 2024
Pages: 336
Publisher: Flatiron Books
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Publisher’s Synopsis:
“Emma hasn’t told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn’t spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she’s pregnant―right as the bank account slips into the red.
That’s when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her parents’ house, which she owns jointly with her estranged sisters. They can’t sell it, but they can live in it. But returning home means that Emma is forced to reveal her secrets to her husband: that the house is not a run-down farmhouse but a stately mansion, and that her parents died there.
Were murdered.
And that some people say Emma did it.
Emma and her sisters have never spoken about what really happened that night. Now, her return to the house may lure her sisters back, but it will also crack open family and small-town secrets lots of people don’t want revealed. As Emma struggles to reconnect with her old family and hold together her new one, she begins to realize that the things they have left unspoken all these years have put them in danger again.”
My Review:
The writing is the best part – it’s just so freaking good. I tabbed and highlighted so many moments and amazing lines. There is so much nuance and subtext written into the story.
The tension and suspense are gripping the whole way through. The multiple perspectives and timelines blended seamlessly together and gave the story more depth.
I never knew where this was going to go. I thought I had things figured out several times but then the doubt would creep in and the book would throw me into another loop. The mystery is so engaging and the pacing is perfectly crafted.
Everyone has secrets, and everyone is in some way an unreliable narrator. You never know who to trust or believe. Even the characters themselves don’t know who or what to believe at times.
It’s also a very emotional and tragic story at its core. The terrible abuse that these girls suffered will leave you heartbroken for them. I was rooting for them the entire time, including the small romantic subplot.
I couldn’t put this one down. It’s my favorite book by her so far. She has cemented her place as an auto-buy author for me. I will read anything she writes.
Highly recommend! I think this is definitely going to be a top popular thriller of the year.
Disclaimers:
Huge thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for gifting me an early copy of this amazing story! I voluntarily read and reviewed this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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