Many thanks to NetGalley and Knopf for gifting me a digital ARC of the latest thriller by a favorite, Kimberly McCreight. All opinions expressed in this review are my own - 4.5 stars rounded up!
Cleo has a difficult relationship with her mother, Kat, but is shocked to come home to find a scary scene and her mother missing. She starts looking into a few things on her own apart from the police investigation, and soon discovers that she didn't know her mom like she imagined.
There is a lot going on in this novel, and it requires some concentration to keep it all straight in your mind; at least it did for me. But it's well worth the effort, because McCreight has once again crafted a multi-layered thriller with so many themes about motherhood, and especially the mother/daughter relationship. I'm always happy when fictional relationships between parent and child aren't all sunshine and light, but show us real feelings. I would suggest going into reading this book as blind as possible and left my synopsis short on purpose. Told from mostly the POV of Kat and Cleo, I loved the way the author also used therapy and legal transcripts, news reports, etc., to add critical elements to the story. Another highly recommended book by this author!
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