Happy Tuesday book lovers and Happy Publication Day to this wonderful book!
Excited to share with you my review for this book that really caught me by surprise! It was an excellent thriller packed with amazing well developed characters! I just loved this one!
My Thoughts
A compelling domestic thriller brimming with secrets and lies!
E. C. Diskin has crafted a tale packed with complicated relationships and complex characters. This was a slow burning story about a dysfunctional family with many secrets and even more to lose. How would you feel if the life you knew turned out to be a complete lie?
Brooklyn Anderson, returns home to small town Eden Illinois, after receiving a phone call from her sister that their father was in the hospital. Brooklyn has been in New York pursuing her career as an actress. The trip home seems all too familiar, she was just home a few months ago after the death of her mother, and now her father has been hospitalized. Her father took a fall and broke his hip, and thank goodness her sister Ginny showed up at the house in time to take him to the hospital. The thing is, Ginny‘s stories aren’t adding up and Brooklyn has a lot of questions to ask the sister she has never really gotten along with. The more Brooklyn digs into the past the more questions she has, how could her loving family have so much to hide? Another Eden Citizen has returned home who has written a movie script and is ready to lay all the town’s secrets bare. Just like a row of dominoes after one secret is revealed the rest of them slowly and sometimes painfully are revealed as well.
Brooklyn was such a likable character there was something about her that really drew me in. I was right there by her side throughout this book squeezing her hand every time she learns something she didn’t already know. The storytelling in this book was exceptional and the characters were tremendously well drawn. This was not A crazy twisted edge of your seat type book. It was a well told story about a family and a town’s secrets and how they impacted the lives of so many. It was about a secret leads to a lie leads to another secret leads to another lie, it is a snowball effect with no end. And ultimately it will consume and destroy you. This is one of those books that captivated me from first page to last! Recommend!
*** many thanks to E. C. Diskin for my copy of this book ***
Fab review, Berit. You had me at town’s secrets. This sounds so good.
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This sounds kind of creepy, too, Berit! Enjoyed your review and glad you found the book compelling.
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It was really good! I was looking at the audiobook the narrators made me wish I had listened to it? But I cannot remember who they were now!
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Oooh I have heard of this author. This seems like an atmospheric read. Great review 😍
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Thank you so much! It was very good!
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Another captivating book! Glad this one held your interest, Berit. Terrific review!
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Thank you so much! I really loved the main character in this one!
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Great Review Berit! This one sounds really good! 😊
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Thank you so much Heather!💕💕
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Great review Berit. I enjoy a good domestic thriller, but this one seems to have the town involved and a likeable main character all seem to add up to a great book.
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I really liked her! And I always love a small town! Probably because I’ve never lived in one!
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This sounds really terrific and your review is fabulous! I love books set in the Midwest – maybe because I’m from here!!
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Thank you so much! It was very good!
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