Book Review: Last Seen by Lucy Clarke

Last Seen: A summer thriller full of secrets and twists, a gripping read for 2017! by Lucy Clarke
My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Wow,reading this book is like riding a roller coaster whilst wearing a blindfold.It's packed full of twists and turns,you have absolutely no idea what is going to happen next but you definitely know you don't want to get off until the ride is over and are very disappointed when you get to the end.

Sarah and Isla have been best friends for many years and have been there for each other through everything that life has thrown their way including giving birth to their sons Jacob and Marley within weeks of each other.

Every year the two women spend the summer months relaxing and having fun at their adjoining beach huts on the south coast.

But on the year of Jacob and Harley`s 10th birthdays the boys go missing at sea and only Sarah`s son Jacob is brought back to the shore.

Seven years later on the anniversary of the accident Jacob disappears without trace.As Sarah begins a desperate search for her son she slowly begins to mistrust everyone - and she is right to

Someone knows what really happened on the day of the accident and will do anything to keep the truth buried.

This book is packed full of twists,lies,unreliable,untrustworthy characters and loads more lies,you cannot trust a word that anyone says.You think you know the truth about what happened on the day of the accident and why Jacob has disappeared then another twist is thrown into the mix and all your theories go out the window.The story is narrated by the alternating perspectives is Sarah and Isla and flips back and forth between the past and the present.I can't honestly say that any of the characters where very likeable but it was hard not to feel a tiny bit of sympathy for Isla,losing a child is every parents worst nightmare.

It's a totally gripping story that kept me guessing from the first page right to the shocking and totally unexpected ending.

Many thanks to Harper Collins UK,Harper Fiction for a arc of this book via netgalley in exchange for a honest review