While there was some suspense in this book, I felt a lot of it was predictable, and I often just couldn’t figure out why the characters would actually do what they did.
Hannah returns to her hometown for the funeral of her older sister April, who dies by suicide in the first chapter of the book. Hannah is accompanied by her husband, Will, who is also April’s ex-boyfriend, and their daughter, Eva. While at the funeral, they discover that someone changed the obituary in the program, which now accuses April of having something to do with the disappearance of a young girl, Paige, years before. Now Hannah is trying to figure out what secrets are out there and who she can trust.
I think the idea behind the premise of the book was better than how it actually turned out. First, I don’t really understand how Hannah could have been married to Will for twelve years and ignored so many red flags when he started out acting so creepy toward her when she was a preteen, especially when he dated her sister. And the question of what he was actually grooming her for as a child was never addressed. It seemed like Hannah was going through the motions of her life without ever having an independent thought.
I also was very confused about Hannah’s relationship with her parents and why they kept ignoring her and disappearing with her daughter. As a mother, it just made absolutely no sense. The gaslighting was unbelievable.
The twists and turns at least made me want to finish the book, but there were so many red herrings, it actually made it more predictable than it probably should have.
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from BookSirens and Ruth Harrow in exchange for my honest review. It has not influenced my opinion.