OMG.....That final twist is jaw dropping
Jason and Heidi are a married couple with a unique connection,they both had young children who were kidnapped at a young age.Heidi knows what happened to her daughter Lauren but Jason's son Barney has never been found.One day while she is buying a bottle of wine at an off licence in a unsavoury and run down part of town Heidi sees a young boy who she is absolutely certain is Barney but when she gets Jason to come and have a look he is equally as certain that the boy is not his son and makes Heidi swear that she will not tell anyone including the police about the boy.Despite his insistence that she drop the matter Heidi starts on an all out quest to try and prove to Jason that the boy is his son.
The book opens with a gripping prologue that pulls you into the story,a story that keeps you guessing right to the final jaw dropping twist.The story is voiced only by Heidi as she goes to all kinds of questionable lengths to find out the truth,putting herself into dangerous situations without a thought about her own life whilst at the same time fighting with her own doubts that perhaps she might actually be wrong especially when Jason won't believe and dismisses everything that she tells him.Throughout the story I found it hard to understand some of Heidi`s actions and why it was so important for her to prove that she was right especially considering Jason's behaviour throughout the story.Did she feel that she had let her daughter down and that proving that the boy was Barney would somehow make her feel less quily?,did she think that if she was right and the boy came to live with them that her marriage would suddenly be all sunshine and roses?.I struggled to understand why they got married in the first place and I certainly couldn't understand why she stayed with Jason or put up with his behaviour .
The story keeps you guessing,intriguing, very well written and packed with a mixed bag of characters who all have their secrets and various reasons for keeping what they know too themselves.There's danger,lies,twists and the ending is literally jaw dropping.It's been a good year so far for debut novels and I would put this one in my top ten reads of the year.I will be very interested to see what Deborah O`Connor comes up with for her second book because the twist in this one is going to be very hard to beat.
Many thanks to Bonnier publishing for an ARC of this book via Netgalley
Jason and Heidi are a married couple with a unique connection,they both had young children who were kidnapped at a young age.Heidi knows what happened to her daughter Lauren but Jason's son Barney has never been found.One day while she is buying a bottle of wine at an off licence in a unsavoury and run down part of town Heidi sees a young boy who she is absolutely certain is Barney but when she gets Jason to come and have a look he is equally as certain that the boy is not his son and makes Heidi swear that she will not tell anyone including the police about the boy.Despite his insistence that she drop the matter Heidi starts on an all out quest to try and prove to Jason that the boy is his son.
The book opens with a gripping prologue that pulls you into the story,a story that keeps you guessing right to the final jaw dropping twist.The story is voiced only by Heidi as she goes to all kinds of questionable lengths to find out the truth,putting herself into dangerous situations without a thought about her own life whilst at the same time fighting with her own doubts that perhaps she might actually be wrong especially when Jason won't believe and dismisses everything that she tells him.Throughout the story I found it hard to understand some of Heidi`s actions and why it was so important for her to prove that she was right especially considering Jason's behaviour throughout the story.Did she feel that she had let her daughter down and that proving that the boy was Barney would somehow make her feel less quily?,did she think that if she was right and the boy came to live with them that her marriage would suddenly be all sunshine and roses?.I struggled to understand why they got married in the first place and I certainly couldn't understand why she stayed with Jason or put up with his behaviour .
The story keeps you guessing,intriguing, very well written and packed with a mixed bag of characters who all have their secrets and various reasons for keeping what they know too themselves.There's danger,lies,twists and the ending is literally jaw dropping.It's been a good year so far for debut novels and I would put this one in my top ten reads of the year.I will be very interested to see what Deborah O`Connor comes up with for her second book because the twist in this one is going to be very hard to beat.
Many thanks to Bonnier publishing for an ARC of this book via Netgalley
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