My thoughts
What did I just read. From the first page to the last. I truly can’t believe I actually stuck with this book.
This is the kind of review that I HATE to write. I hated this book and still couldn’t put it down. I had to stick it out and find out what happened to Sophie. I had to know who possibly murdered Sophie. And what her parents got involved with.
Sophie went missing and her parents would not rest until she was found. They terrorized the man across the street because he refused to open his door and let them interrogate him. I don’t blame him. Then he is murdered. They both are arrested for his murder. But there is more going on and they both get out. The trial is dismissed. Yeah right!!
I read this whole book and it makes my skin crawl to think about. I hope I forget this one fast. It will be the one that sticks with me because it was so bad. Oh my I hate writing this review. The ending was stupid. The start was ok but the middle was stupid too. Where were the police during all the things this couple did. During the time this girl, this seventeen year old, was missing. Good grief.
I understand that grief will make you crazy but still. Neither of these two were put in a mental hospital and both needed it bad. They used others and each other. They were nuts. Yeah I get that most parents might be in this situation but it happens and parents have to move on and live somehow. Not try and take the law into their own hands. And again WHERE WERE THE POLICE..
I’m sorry but to me this book is just no good. I feel bad for this author for this review but I have to be honest. I read this whole book and I have to post my feelings. Better luck next time and this is the last by this author that I will ever read.
Thank you #NetGalley, #RandomHouse, #Ballantinebooks, for this ARC. This is my own true thoughts about this book.
2/5 stars and anyone that knows me knows I never give that low of a rating. I did this time. It earned it.
About
Someone is guilty.
For the last seventeen years, Harry and Zara King’s lives have revolved around their only daughter, Sophie. One day, Sophie leaves the house and doesn’t come home. Six weeks later, the police are no closer to finding her than when they started. Harry and Zara have questioned everyone who has ever had any connection to Sophie, to no avail. Except there’s one house on their block—number 210, across the street—whose occupant refuses to break his silence.
Someone knows what happened.
As the question mark over number 210 devolves into obsession, Harry and Zara are forced to examine their own lives. They realize they have grown apart, suffering in separate spheres of grief. And as they try to find their way back to each other, they must face the truth about their daughter: who she was, how she changed, and why she disappeared.
Someone will pay.
Told in the alternating perspectives of Harry and Zara, and in a dual timeline between the weeks after Sophie’s disappearance and a year later in the middle of a murder trial, Imran Mahmood’s taut yet profoundly moving novel explores how differently grief can be experienced even when shared by parents—and how hope triumphs when it springs from the kind of love that knows no bounds.
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