Many thanks to NetGalley, Park Row Books, and Mary Kubica for the opportunity to read her latest thriller. I'm a big fan of Kubica's writing and this one - for the most part - didn't disappoint.
Told in the voices of Eden in 1996 and Jessie in present time, Jessie is struggling to start a new life after the death of her mom and years spent taking care of her. When Jessie tries to enroll in a community college to fulfill her mom's wish that she move on with her life, she finds that her social security number shows her as being deceased. In fact, it shows her as being a deceased 3 year old child. Jessie has horrid insomnia and hasn't slept in days - she starts imagining things and people in her home and on the streets.
Meanwhile, twenty years earlier, Eden and her husband Aaron are starting their lives with a new home on the lake and are anxious to have children. But Eden struggles with infertility and it's causing a rift in her life and marriage.
I couldn't put this down but I'll admit that the ending was disappointing and had me reeling! Go into this one blind, without reading the reviews (except mine maybe!). Kubica's beautiful writing kept me glued to the pages.
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