by Laura Dave
Libby eBook approx 500 pages
Published: 2021
Genre: suspense, realistic fiction
I had never heard of this author before, but the story sounded interesting.
"Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her.
Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the
note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost
her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing
to do with her new stepmother.
As Hannah’s increasingly
desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss,
as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home
unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he
was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true
identity—and why he really disappeared."
It took me a bit to get into it. I didn't like that the teenage Bailey was such a pill (as teenage girls can be, even without losing their birth mom at a young age.) But once I got into it, it was hard to put down. I wasn't sure how it would end . . . and it's frustrating that there are at least THIRTY pages of extra stuff at the end of the book. I was expecting more from the story, but it ends a bit abruptly (because I was anticipating more to the story). The extra stuff is good - book club discussion questions, acknowledgements, author interview, etc. But I just wasn't ready for the story to end where it did.
I may look for more books by this author. I tagged one section. "This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart - and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different." I don't agree with that line, but it made me think of politics and how often people on the extreme ends of the spectrum want to "improve" things, but have very different ideas about what that is and how to get there.
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