Many thanks to NetGalley and Random House for gifting me a digital ARC of this wonderful thriller by Laura McHugh. All opinions expressed in this review are my own - 4.5 stars rounded up!
Sisters Amelia and Kylee are desperate to escape small town Beaumont, where the only thing they have to look forward to is a job at the local meatpacking plant. Their cousin, Grace, used to tell them that they had to get out. Only Grace disappeared one night while babysitting the sisters and has never been found. Six years later, a body is found in the woods and the sisters are desperate for answers.
This was such an atmospheric book. You could feel the oppression of the town and its hold on its residents who don't even dream of something different. Amelia, Kylee and Grace's home lives left much to be desired, but Grace loved the sisters and they knew she would never leave them. The story is played out in both the present and the past, as the reader learns Grace's story as well as the sisters and you will be rooting for all of them.. This was a tense, suspenseful read and I never guessed the ending.
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