Sarah Pekkanen
shows the length a mother would go to in order to protect their child:
It has always been Catherine and her mother Ruth. Ruth ran away when she was pregnant with Catherine as a teen and had been kicked out of the house by her parents or so Catherine thought. Catherine is ready to move on with her life and to live her own life and create a career for herself. Ruth has not been honest with her daughter, and it turns out that Catherine is not the person that Ruth thought she was. But Ruth has been protecting her daughter her whole life and will do anything to keep her by her side, she needs to keep her safe.
I have only read Sarah Pekkanen when she is co-author with Geer Hendricks, so I was interested to see what Pekkanen was able to do on her own. This a good domestic suspense book but you need to get through the slowness of the first 30% of the book. In that first 30% you're really kept waiting as to what Ruth (Ava) ran away from when she was a pregnant teenager and why she has kept running ever sense. In the first 30% I found that Ruth's life before were the more interesting parts, the present day were more just depressing with Ruth being diagnosed with Alzheimers. Once you are past the 30% mark, things really start to pick up as more and more information is revealed.
This book is all about manipulation,
and manipulation not only between Ruth and Catherine but also the other people
in their lives. If you enjoy manipulation and the lengths that people will go
to in order to get their way and spread lies, then you will enjoy this book.
There are some aspects in the
book that really raise the concept of nature vs nature as you learn more about
what Ruth is running from as well as the upbringing that Catherine has had. I
kept coming back to this question as I read further and further into the book
and even more so towards the end. This is also a worry for Ruth as well, for
more than one reason.
This book was good, I enjoyed all
the secrets that Ruth and Catherine were keeping from each other, and it is a
bit of a different take on domestic suspense as this is between a mother and
daughter instead of husband and wife, which is what we normally see. I think
that Pekkanen did a good job working with the story and like I said above the
manipulation is on point.
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