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Awesome!

Reviewed: 06-15-23

These books are not only well written with a good plot, but with lovable, wonderful characters and laugh out loud scenes. Splendid. Can’t wait for the next one.

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Time I”ll never get back

Reviewed: 04-23-23

I knew this would contain magic, supernatural, a little horror, but the devil and demons? Really? This is such a tired old theme. There was good stuff in this book, Cecile’s journals for one, though the narrator’s dreadful attempt at a French accent made it hard to enjoy. I can’t recommend this book, which is sad. Don’t buy this unless you like the devil/demon/visits from hell trope. The author took a really good missing person’s mystery and turned it into a tragedy and a joke.

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So much double crossing

Reviewed: 04-07-23

This was a well plotted story with twists I didn’t quite see. The only issue I have with this book, and I have it with other British mysteries/thrillers also, is that all of the women are so incredibly, … mean spirited, sohorrible, and the way the two main women in this story are written, there is nothing redeeming about their characters at all. The men are similar. Sometimes, there is such a thing as to mean, to evil, to awful. If I had a complaint with this novel, this would be it. I did not like any of the characters at all and I didn’t care who died, when, or how and that is not what a reader wants in an otherwise delightfully twisty thriller.

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Captivating

Reviewed: 03-11-23

This was a book that was hard to put down even though I had to stop several times to take a break. I don’t think I will soon forget it.

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Time jumps make this a little confusing

Reviewed: 11-28-22

Thisis a marvelously plotted story with lots of twists, turns and surprises. But in the killer’s part of the story, there are time jumps that can mess the reader up in an attempt to throw the reader off track. It didn’t work. IN fact in this audible book, I knew who the killer was immediately, because of the narrator. So in a way, it was a bit of a disappointment because they had the same narrator for the killer and the main character in the present time. Still though, it’s John Marrs and it’ll be worth reading it again.

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Another good read.listen

Reviewed: 11-25-22

I bought this author’s first book from Audible on a lark and have been bying, and enjoying, every one of her books since. This is a character driven, slow moving story with lots of twists and turns and a satisfying, happy ever after ending.

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Gripping!

Reviewed: 06-24-21

Best short story I’ve read in a very long time. I have been a reader of suspense and mysteries for a long long time and while I had some of this figured out, there was a lot I had no idea of until it was revealed by the author and that to me is the sign of a good story. A definite must read.

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10 hours I can’t get back

Reviewed: 05-10-21

I cannot recommend this book. I know that bullying, meanness, frame ups and set ups occur in life, but this book had all of these and the only nice thing was the love, albeit very flawed, of one family, the Wilds, for each other. I had to skip parts of it because of the set up of an innocent man, the misuse of children to benefit the adults in their lives, and ridiculous meanness. This is a superficial story with no merit at all. Don’t waste your money or credits. I dislike being this harsh, but this book is awful.

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Letdown

Reviewed: 04-09-21

This book has so much promise, an old building with a lot of history used to treat those with depression in the 1920s, a raging storm, a main character who has to make a major life decision about returning to her job as a police detective. I was hopeful when I started, but now, at the brink of finishing it, I am just done with the whole plot and want it to be over with. This book starts off slowly and deliberately and continues so throughout, but the author can’t, or doesn’t, use this deliberateness to build suspense, nor to make us like the characters, or dislike them for that matter. There are no characters in this book I have any feeling for. They’re just there, paper cutouts being manipulated. A huge part of the story is the main character’s anxiety about how her younger brother died when she was 12. But when she’s finally told, after making the reader suffer through all her anxiety about it, and when it proves to be the exact opposite of what she suspected, she just accepts it, oh, la dee dah and then continues to try to solve the mystery, which is revealed in the last two hours of the book,, and it’s solved not by the main character’s detective work, but by people confessing.
What made this book readable was the narrator Elizabeth Noelden, who is wonderful at everything she reads. Despite her excellent narration, I cannot recommend this book to anybody. The history of what happened in the Sanitorium was also used in a way that doesn’t do anything to increase the understanding of anything, it’s a backdrop to get people, like me, to read this book.

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Very nice

Reviewed: 04-06-21

When I first started this, I thought, “Oh no, I bought this why?” A couple of the characters were hard to like, there was some ankst, but as I read along, I found myself becoming more and more engrossed, and changing my mind about the characters. This book shows that love and willingness to be honest can overcome secrets and shame. I normally do not read books like this, but I’m so very very glad I read this one.

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