Bookouture, October 15, 2015.
Two Stars
Surprise, surprise, this book is
being compared to Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. Putting “girl” in
the title and adding a twisty ending is very on-trend right now, but this one
just didn’t work for me. It’s good for an escape – I couldn’t stop reading
until the mystery was revealed – but the writing just wasn’t that great.
Leah feels extreme guilt over an
incident from her past, and in trying to erase it, she chooses not to fully
live in the present. She has an okay job, a mediocre apartment, and a couple
acquaintances that she spends time with. When she finally begins to make a few
new friends, including a potential love interest, her past comes back to haunt her
and she risks losing everything.
Leah now has a stalker that is
putting an almost unbelievable amount of detail and effort into torturing her.
The details of her past are revealed very gradually, but it was too little too
late to really draw me into the story. I felt like the novel needed more
connections between the past and the present in order to wrap up the incident
in Leah’s past.
It wasn’t hard to figure out what
was going on, but there was still a final twist at the end that reminded us of
Leah’s unreliability as a narrator. This was a quick, escapist read with a few
fun surprises, it just doesn’t have a whole lot of depth or literary value in
my opinion.
I received this book for free from Bookouture and NetGalley in
exchange for an honest review.
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