Here’s another psychological thriller that I have mixed feelings about. The plot was one of the better ones I have come across. However, I had a difficult time getting behind a couple of the main characters.
You’ve seen the background elsewhere. As Cassie mourns the death of her son, Josh, a woman pops up claiming to be the mother of Josh’s child. In her grief, Cassie wants to believe her, but at the same time, feels like it is too convenient. Adam (Cassie’s husband) agrees. It doesn’t help that Cassie is harboring deep secrets of her own.
I think that is what made her unsympathetic to me. She made her own bed and had to lie in it. Maybe she saw a kindred spirit in Kim (the baby mama). Or maybe she was just a bad person. Regardless, it was difficult to feel sorry for her. Frankly, one of her actions really made me despise her.
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I kind of felt the same way about Kim, although she did have a terrible home life that she was trying to escape. I couldn’t blame her for that. But she was untrustworthy as well. I don’t think that a rotten homelife excuses the things she did.
The person I did feel sorry for was Adam. He seemed to be caught in the middle of all of the crazy women. I rooted for him to be able to escape it all safely. There were other characters who were mentioned in passing at the beginning, and then weren’t really brought up again until halfway through the book.
And that’s really when the story started taking its twists and turns. I’m not going to say anything else, but the second half of the book was definitely more interesting than the first half. So, give this one a try. I think if you come at it that the first half is the set up for the last part, it works as a whole.
Author Bio
Sheryl Browne writes psychological thriller and edgy contemporary fiction. A member of the Crime Writers’ Association, Romantic Novelists’ Association and awarded a Red Ribbon by The Wishing Shelf Book Awards, Sheryl has several books published and two short stories in Birmingham City University anthologies, where she completed her MA in Creative Writing.
