Synopsis:
Fans of Hidden Pictures and The Lovely Bones will enjoy this unconventional love story with a harrowing mystery and a bond that transcends time…
In the year 1986, 12-year-old Jackie Tanner leads a desolate existence alongside a flighty older sister and an absent mother. It isn’t until Jackie meets an older boy on the banks of the river that she understands the value of love and the bonds of friendship. But J.R. is only in southern Minnesota because his father, a police detective, is aiding local authorities in the search for missing girls. After the community goes into lockdown to protect their children, Jackie and J.R. navigate through the highs and lows of their complicated lives as close confidants.
In the year 2018, 32-year-old Sterling Pruitt is inexplicably lured from Los Angeles to a small Midwestern city where her lifelong dreams involving a little girl become even more vivid…tangible, even. When Sterling learns of the city’s haunting secrets, she confides in Theo, the handsome yet sullen carpenter hired to renovate her new home. Together, Sterling and Theo will question both their destinies and their grips on reality.
Once Sterling begins to understand the gravity of her dreams, she’ll do everything in her power to unlock the mystery behind the abductions in 1986. This enchanting, heartfelt, and often agonizing tale of friendship and tragedy reminds us the bonds of true love can etch a permanent place into our hearts.
Review/ my thoughts:
The girls of Kato is a mystery told in two perspectives, Jackie in the year 1987 and sterling in the year 2018. Jackie is very close to her best friend JR and they both care about each other. JR is being abused by his dad. Jackie wants to help get JR away from his dad. One night leaving JR house she never came back home. The town says that she was kidnapped. During this time a lot of kids were being kidnapped and the town enforced a curfew.
In 2018 sterling moves to the town of Kato for a social work position. She meets a man named theo who is there to fix up things around her place.
Sterling finds out about the kids who were once kidnapped in 1987 and she wants to know more about the case. She has a strong passion to getting Jackie and the other girls back home or at least trying to find out what really happened to them.
Sterling ends up finding out a lot with the connection with Theo and the missing girls. A lot of information comes out about the missing girls that finally comes to the surface.
I like that this story was told in two perspectives. It gives the more of a backstory to the present. I do like the character sterling she was persistent with finding answers in the case of the missing girls. I do all like the little romance this story gives as well.
Rating 3.75⭐
Synopsis:
He thought he knew everything about his wife… He was wrong!
Tom and Amy Pearce have built a seemingly perfect life – a loving marriage, a beautiful daughter, fulfilling careers, and a comfortable home. They couldn’t ask for more.
So why is Amy hiding something?
When Tom stumbles upon an object he believed was lost in a tragic accident, memories flood back, catapulting him into an emotional whirlwind.
A few days later, Tom observes an encounter between Amy and a mysterious stranger. The subtle shift in her demeanour piques his concern, stirring a deep unease within him. Desperate for answers, he confronts Amy, only to be met with evasiveness and distance.
As Tom delves deeper into the connection between the stranger and the object from the past, he realises he may not truly know his wife at all…
WHAT SHE KNEW – the new suspenseful thriller from the author of I’ll Find You, The Neighbour’s Secret and The Boy in the Well.
Review/ My thoughts
What She Knew is a fast paced thriller about a man, husband and father named Tom. His sister Emma just recently passed away from a house fire. Tom’s wife Amy has been acting strange lately having a strange man visit and hunt her down, taking phone calls at weird times. Being very secretive.
In the end Tom is on a mission to find out why Amy is behaving the way she is and it has a lot to do with his sister’s death.
Overall this was a good story there were moments where I felt I knew where the story was going but it didn’t take away from the story. I enjoyed how fast paced it was. This being the first story I read by this author I think I may check out other books by him.
Rating 3.75 (4) ⭐
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Synopsis
When a young woman falls to her death from a luxury London apartment, Poppy Taylor’s world is turned upside down.
Because the prime suspect isn’t just anyone: it’s ex-boyfriend Elliot Gardner, the charming millionaire and social-media influencer who introduced her to a life of holiday villas, designer handbags, and first-class plane tickets.
But Poppy knows all about the real Elliot. The gas-lighting. The abuse. And she knows that he’ll do anything to walk free.
To stop him, she’ll have to confront her past – and the memories she’s been running from – to relive it all; from first falling for Elliot’s charming advances, to discovering his darker side, and the breakdown of a relationship which left her reputation and her life in pieces.
After all, men like Elliot always get away with it. Don’t they?
Review
First off this was my first time reading anything by this author and I’m glad I Will Follow You was my first introduction to the author’s writing. This story is a thriller, it’s about finding out the real truth to what happened when a woman named Rebecca was pushed off a balcony from a 15th floor hotel room. She was with a man who is very popular and rich named Elliot Gardner. All things are pointing at Elliot as to say he was the one who pushed her. He was able to clear his name at the trial.
But now his former girlfriend Poppy knows the real Elliot and won’t stop until she uncovers the truth about what happened to Rebecca and why she was murdered.
This story goes back and forth to present time and past time when Poppy was dating Elliot. During both timelines you are able to see the changes of Elliot has become and even how intense Poppy is to make sure he is behind bars.
I really enjoyed how intense this story was. I really enjoyed the author’s writing style and how real the scenes were. There were times when I was really guessing who the real murderer was and going back and forth in forth in my mind as I was reading.
This story kept me guessing the whole way through which I enjoyed, also it was fast paced.
I’m glad I had the chance to read I will Follow you I recommend it to anyone who wants to read a mystery and something fast paced.
Rating 5⭐
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