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“There’s no place like home” – that’s what I tell myself as I pull another flawless meal from the oven. This perfect house on a quiet street was supposed to be my sanctuary, a place to recover. But everything changed the moment I saw that woman in the charity shop. She triggered something dark, buried deep within my memory…Now I’ve started forgetting small things, like locking the front door. And bigger things, like remembering to pick my little girl up from nursery. I feel terrified every time I pass through a particular spot in our living room. And sometimes, when I’m alone, I’m sure I can hear a baby crying…I think the woman in the shop knows what happened to me. But if I can’t trust myself to believe she’s real, who will?
Review: 3.5 Stars
This is an engrossing book. It’s is a little slow and repetitive in the beginning but yet the need to keep reading and trying to understand what happened is unavoidable. Diane’s past is very mysterious, you keep reading more and yet have no idea what happened to Diane and how she ended up in the clinic. It is a dark psychological mystery that you simply can’t put down.
I enjoyed this book but I have serious issues with the lead character Diane. I don’t understand the irresponsible behavior shown by Diane; she’s just out of a clinic, has no idea how she ended up there, feels like she’s losing her grip on sanity and yet she’ll take more sleeping pills and painkillers than she should and she’ll mix them with alcohol too! It makes no sense to me to see someone desperate to find their truth yet so reckless with medication knowing fully well that it makes it harder for them to be alert and aware. Her behavior made me actually like her less instead of making me feel sympathetic to her. Also hard for me to swallow was how she hid things from her husband and how instead of being honest or even confrontational about the distance Paul put between them she chose to ignore it or play along so to say. She decides to put her trust in Anne but not once does she actually look her up on the internet to find out more about her especially when she says she’s an author of 8 books! She registers that Anne must be successful only when she sees her house. All of this behavior is beyond the realm of reality for me. I found that I was getting more and more annoyed by Diane as the plot moved along. Kudos to the author for creating an unlikable yet vulnerable character.
At the climax I did feel sympathy for Diane and I truly felt bad for her. The epilogue was a good way to leave the book almost hanging and a perfect segue to a sequel perhaps.
Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture for giving me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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