Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio
Published: December 1, 2021
Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher via TLC Booktours / Audio via Brilliance Audio
Summary:
A terrified voice on the phone. The line goes dead. The mystery begins.
During a superstorm, Holly Boswell receives a panicked call from her sister, Vivian: Come get me…There’s somebody coming. But when Holly arrives at a Long Island marina, there’s only her sister’s abandoned car. Vivian is gone.
It’s all eerily familiar. Holly and Vivian used to play hide-and-seek as children. It was a reprieve from the mental abuses of their parents, psychology professors who raised the siblings as if it were research. Decades later, Holly is reminded of their childhood games.
In her relentless search for the answers, Holly is reading between the lines in Vivian’s journals. She’s untangling clues in their mother’s diary and discovering secrets from her sister’s private world that are casting a dangerous shadow. Maybe Vivian has reasons for wanting to disappear from her well-to-do life. Or is it something more sinister? As Holly follows Vivian’s trail, she can’t shake the feeling that someone might be following her.
My thoughts:
I love discovering new authors and of course, I love domestic dramas, so of course this one appealed to me, but even more importantly – this one grabbed my attention because it’s set on Long Island and that’s where I live – and not only that but it’s set in my hometown!
I love a good sister drama and this one really kept me guessing. The way it is written, where we kept going back into their past, to their childhood which was disturbing in and of itself, leads you to question the sanity of the characters to being with, and then you have such unlikable secondary characters – both husbands and a few others, that I was suspicious of just about everyone! Talk about flawed characters! I don’t think there was anyone I didn’t suspect at one point.
This was a quick read with some crazy twists that kept me engaged throughout. It’s dark and at times a bit disturbing, but not in a gory way but rather for the way their mother treated them. If you like dark, twisted family dramas, I definitely recommend picking this one up!
Audio thoughts:
I was able to listen to this one and thought Kirsten Potter did a great job narrating this one. Her pacing was spot on and she was able to give each character their own unique voice.
