BY ERICA SPINDLER
SYNOPSIS FROM AUTHORS WEBSITE⇣
Sienna Scott, who grew up in the dark shadow of her mother's paranoid delusions, returns home to confront her past and the unsolved murder that altered the course of her life.
In her mother's shuttered home, an old fear rears it ugly head. One that had taken root inside Sienna all those years ago - that it was she who had been the killer's target that night. And now, with it, a new fear - that the killer not only intended to remedy his past mistake - he's already begun.
As the walls close in, the line between truth and lie, reality and delusion disintegrate. Has Sienna's worst nightmare come true? Has she inherited more than her mother's beautiful face? Or will she unmask a killer and finally prove she may be her mother's look-alike, but she's not her clone?
BOOK TAGS⇣
⁝ BILLED AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ⁝ MENTAL ILLNESS ⁝ MURDER MYSTERY ⁝ A ROMANTIC INTEREST ⁝ A STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION ⁝ WANTED TO DNF...INSTEAD, I SKIMMED A LITTLE ⁝
BOOK DETAILS⇣
BOOK COVER⇢ I LIKE IT...AND IT DREW ME IN, SO I BLAME THE COVER.
SETTING⇢ TRANQUILITY BLUFFS, WI
SOURCE⇢ I RECEIVED AN ARC VIA NETGALLEY IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW
eBOOK LENGTH⇢ 320 PAGES
BOOK COVER⇢ I LIKE IT...AND IT DREW ME IN, SO I BLAME THE COVER.
SETTING⇢ TRANQUILITY BLUFFS, WI
SOURCE⇢ I RECEIVED AN ARC VIA NETGALLEY IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW
eBOOK LENGTH⇢ 320 PAGES
MY THOUGHTS⇣
This story hinges on the belief that because of her mother's paranoid delusions...that she (Sienna) has them too? The only issue I have with that is nothing she did or thought made it feel like she was having paranoid delusions herself. I think she was perfectly within her right mind to think the killer was maybe after her instead of the girl that was killed. They had the same coat, she was walking the same little-used path as she took each night after her study group and at the same time that she would. I don't get why her Dad, her brother, and even the Police tried to convince her it was all in her head. Like she's her mother's clone. Then came the last straw for me...Sienna and her Mother are wrestling over a gun...yeah, a gun and guess what happens? Of course, you figured it out...one of them gets shot. I'm like...really???
So...I started skimming sometime after that point because seriously, no one's got time for that shit. I did want to know how it would end, though, so I stopped around the last twenty percent, and I read all to way to end. All in all, I read just over 60%...which I believe is enough to rate a book.
I believe the author wrote the book the way she did, to trip readers up, so they won't guess the end. Maybe??? But to make that work, it still has to be believable, and it just wasn't. Basically, if your story starts out being too unbelievable, everything that comes after isn't going to be either.
This story hinges on the belief that because of her mother's paranoid delusions...that she (Sienna) has them too? The only issue I have with that is nothing she did or thought made it feel like she was having paranoid delusions herself. I think she was perfectly within her right mind to think the killer was maybe after her instead of the girl that was killed. They had the same coat, she was walking the same little-used path as she took each night after her study group and at the same time that she would. I don't get why her Dad, her brother, and even the Police tried to convince her it was all in her head. Like she's her mother's clone. Then came the last straw for me...Sienna and her Mother are wrestling over a gun...yeah, a gun and guess what happens? Of course, you figured it out...one of them gets shot. I'm like...really???
So...I started skimming sometime after that point because seriously, no one's got time for that shit. I did want to know how it would end, though, so I stopped around the last twenty percent, and I read all to way to end. All in all, I read just over 60%...which I believe is enough to rate a book.
I believe the author wrote the book the way she did, to trip readers up, so they won't guess the end. Maybe??? But to make that work, it still has to be believable, and it just wasn't. Basically, if your story starts out being too unbelievable, everything that comes after isn't going to be either.
So...I started skimming sometime after that point because seriously, no one's got time for that shit. I did want to know how it would end, though, so I stopped around the last twenty percent, and I read all to way to end. All in all, I read just over 60%...which I believe is enough to rate a book.
I believe the author wrote the book the way she did, to trip readers up, so they won't guess the end. Maybe??? But to make that work, it still has to be believable, and it just wasn't. Basically, if your story starts out being too unbelievable, everything that comes after isn't going to be either.
MY RATING⇢ 1¾✰STARS✰
BREAKDOWN⇣
Plot⇢ 2/5
Characters⇢ 1.5/5
The Feels⇢ 1/5
Pacing⇢ 1/5
Addictiveness⇢ 1/5
Theme or Tone⇢ 2/5
Flow (Writing Style)⇢ 1/5
Twisty-ness⇢ 1/5
Originality⇢ 2/5
Ending⇢ 2.5/5
Plot⇢ 2/5
Characters⇢ 1.5/5
The Feels⇢ 1/5
Pacing⇢ 1/5
Addictiveness⇢ 1/5
Theme or Tone⇢ 2/5
Flow (Writing Style)⇢ 1/5
Twisty-ness⇢ 1/5
Originality⇢ 2/5
Ending⇢ 2.5/5
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