Date Started: July 8
Date Finished: July 9
One-Word Summary: Should-Have-Posted-Earlier-Oops
Confession time -- the date of this writing is July 24th and obviously I finished this book way earlier this month. Add to the fact that the book wasn't particularly memorable and you have a recipe for a bad post. That said I'll do my best. Reminder: spoilers after the jump!
So the whole premise is that this teenage girl wakes up to find her whole family missing and no one knows what happened. Fast forward to her adulthood where she is the epitome of a helicopter mom to her daughter. Then, out of nowhere (or else we wouldn't have a plot) someone starts to threaten the family. Is it related to Cynthia's family's disappearance all those years ago? Of course!
So the thing is, I didn't find the explanation all that shocking. Wow, her dad had a double life and another family?! Crazy! That was pretty obvious from the description of a job that "kept him on the road" all of the time. Easy set up. I will give the author credit for the interspersed chapters from the "other" family's point of view -- those kept the reader guessing, and of course hoping that Cynthia's brother and mother were still alive. Such was not to be. As we find out at the end of the book, her mom and brother died the night of their disappearance, at the hand of her father's first wife.
It was a thriller and I hadn't read one in a while, so it was a fun escape for a day. Not one of the best books I've ever read but a fun diversion nonetheless.
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