Ebook previously provided by NetGalley. Thank you.
3/5 stars
Despite giving them the same rating I did prefer this to Keep Him Close and I think the author does better at these domestic sort of stories than thrillers.
July is 10 years old, as far as she knows her mother died in a car crash when she was 2, she knows very little about her and if she asks her dad too many questions he'll teach her a Lesson but then July's teacher sets their summer homework as a report on someone they know and July decides to use it to try and get some more information about her mother.
This was definitely well-written, everything felt very realistic and I liked the descriptions and the characters were all well-defined but my biggest issue was the pacing. So much of the important plot happens in the last quarter or so, there needed to be more in the earlier stages where the story felt quite flat. We also don't get much of an end past a character writing a letter which tells us a few important things.
I also want to make a specific comment about how much I loved the growth of July and her stepsister Sylvie's relationship from playground rivals that couldn't be seen together to what happened at the end was a beautiful arc.
Steff Out x
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