Genre: Thriller/Crime
Rating: 4 stars
This book was a ride, mostly filled with wild twists and turns with a few lulls.
Chloe Davis’ father was arrested and convicted twenty years ago after six girls had gone missing in her small Louisiana town. Chloe, her brother Cooper, and their mother were left to grapple with the fallout of her father being labeled a serial killer and figure out how they’re going to move forward.
20 years later, Chloe thinks she’s got it all figured out; she’s a psychologist with her own practice, engaged to a wonderful man, but her grip on happiness is fragile. Some days still feels like that young girl with no control over her own life instead of the adult woman with a good job and an impending wedding to look forward to. But then a local girl goes missing and Chloe’s fragile mental state snaps.
With our unreliable narrator at the helm we’re set up go on a wild ride that will have us questioning if Chloe’s on the track to finding out the truth or is she paranoid and making it all up as she goes along?
I loved this book. The premise is exactly what I look for in a book like this, but with Chloe’s unreliable nature at times it’s hard to stay on track. There are times where there’s too much focus on Chloe’s anxiety or panic that the ride we’re on can feel like we’re traveling on those stretches of highway where it’s all cornfields for miles and you can find yourself hypnotized by the road. But these tough bits I understand were important to the story because it was a front row seat to Chloe’s mental state.
I had an inkling in the beginning about who actually killed the girls because the dad never felt like the killer, but thanks to Chloe’s mental state and those tough to get through bits started to make me question if I was right or wrong, which did help me get through the book because I wanted to know what other wild turns or information we were going to get next.
Even with my hunch, I wasn’t even remotely prepared for how the story was going to end which is what I love most about the book. I couldn’t put the book down when we got towards the end because it was so crazy that I had to know what was happening. It was one of the best endings I’ve read in a book like this in awhile.
While this book lost a star for me because some of the dragging bits, I still think it’s worth picking up and giving a read if you like this kind of book. Stacy Willingham is a fantastic writer and she paints such a vivid picture that I will be picking up her new book to see what wild ride she has in store for me.
If you decide to give this book a shot let me know what you thought!
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