Narrated by Olivia, having changed her name from Arden to escape media scrutiny, and also with the inclusion of newspaper and media articles and extracts from her mother’s book we slowly piece together events from the past.
With the 20 year anniversary of her survival looming and upon learning of her mother’s death from overdose seven months previously. Olivia receives a box of her mother’s possessions. Her mother had used her notoriety to make money to feed her habit so she is surprised to find a bracelet and charm that her mother didn’t sell.
The past then collides with the present with Olivia still sleepwalking , this time not clinging on in a storm drain but standing over a corpse with hands covered in blood. To then find out the dead body is the man who rescued her all those years ago. Has she murdered the man who saved her? Feel like I need to include dramatic music at this point.
Now if there is one thing I really love in thrillers it’s an unreliable narrator. With sleepwalking tendencies and a brain that has blocked memories, Olivia is more unreliable than most and one of the main suspects in the murder of the man found at her feet.
The descriptive writing style made this a book to easily get lost in, a real teeth sinking book, grabbing your attention and posing lots of questions that you are hooked into finding the answers to alongside Olivia.
This is a slowly drawn book, building the intrigue and suspense and I personally pegged nearly everyone mentioned in this book as a suspect at one point or another, frequently changing my mind. All of this leading to an ending that I did not see coming in my wildest dreams.
With the 20 year anniversary of her survival looming and upon learning of her mother’s death from overdose seven months previously. Olivia receives a box of her mother’s possessions. Her mother had used her notoriety to make money to feed her habit so she is surprised to find a bracelet and charm that her mother didn’t sell.
The past then collides with the present with Olivia still sleepwalking , this time not clinging on in a storm drain but standing over a corpse with hands covered in blood. To then find out the dead body is the man who rescued her all those years ago. Has she murdered the man who saved her? Feel like I need to include dramatic music at this point.
Now if there is one thing I really love in thrillers it’s an unreliable narrator. With sleepwalking tendencies and a brain that has blocked memories, Olivia is more unreliable than most and one of the main suspects in the murder of the man found at her feet.
The descriptive writing style made this a book to easily get lost in, a real teeth sinking book, grabbing your attention and posing lots of questions that you are hooked into finding the answers to alongside Olivia.
This is a slowly drawn book, building the intrigue and suspense and I personally pegged nearly everyone mentioned in this book as a suspect at one point or another, frequently changing my mind. All of this leading to an ending that I did not see coming in my wildest dreams.