Daily Archives: September 25, 2015

This was a terrific but really horrifying book to read. I have not read any of Karin Slaughter’s previous books (which is something that I will remedy soon), so I didn’t know what to expect. A thriller, yes, but a book that kept me glued to the page and left me with visuals in my head was not what I thought of with such a sweet and innocuous title.

The story is about three sisters and their father. One of the girls, Julia, goes missing years ago at age 19 and we read about the ensuing years in a journal that the father kept in the form of letters to her. The story about the remaining two sisters is in the present day, though we do hear their remembrances and thoughts about the past, too. The sisters are separated by something that occurred later but which has kept them apart for many years. When another young woman goes missing, the two of them are brought back together again and together they discover their true past and present.

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