Member Review
Review by
Ellis C, Reviewer
4.25 stars
I was hooked from the very beginning with this story.
And this was certainly an interesting take on the locked room mystery.
Once Ethan disappears and Mila is all on her own, it was incredibly captivating, so much so that I couldn't stop reading as I had to find out what was going on.
You feel like you're there with her trying to work out what to do next and how to stay alive and then there are all the grisly and eerie details that start to reveal themselves.
Some of it did start to feel a bit repetitive as she went back and forth between the village and where the car was located but it did keep my attention the whole way through.
I liked the flashbacks to Mila and Jess' childhoods. This made both characters feel much more fleshed out and you could understand why there might be a rift between the siblings.
These chapters or sections also gave you a slight respite from what was going on in the village.
And seeing how things between them were resolved in the end was nice.
The only thing that let this book down for me was the big twist in the end.
Even though alarms were immediately raised in my head when I noticed how deep a sleep Mila was in a few times throughout, the perpetrators ultimate motives felt a little far fetched and unbelievable.
To think that he had dated, married and lived with her for so long, all in a grand plan to eventually use her death to get closer to her sister felt a bit hard to believe.
The same thing could be said about there also being a separate drug running scheme going on in the abandoned village at the same time.
But I definitely enjoyed the creepy and isolated setting and goings on, as well as seeing Mila fight to stay alive, both in Germany and once she got back home.
I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for more Sarah Goodwin books in the future.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I was hooked from the very beginning with this story.
And this was certainly an interesting take on the locked room mystery.
Once Ethan disappears and Mila is all on her own, it was incredibly captivating, so much so that I couldn't stop reading as I had to find out what was going on.
You feel like you're there with her trying to work out what to do next and how to stay alive and then there are all the grisly and eerie details that start to reveal themselves.
Some of it did start to feel a bit repetitive as she went back and forth between the village and where the car was located but it did keep my attention the whole way through.
I liked the flashbacks to Mila and Jess' childhoods. This made both characters feel much more fleshed out and you could understand why there might be a rift between the siblings.
These chapters or sections also gave you a slight respite from what was going on in the village.
And seeing how things between them were resolved in the end was nice.
The only thing that let this book down for me was the big twist in the end.
Even though alarms were immediately raised in my head when I noticed how deep a sleep Mila was in a few times throughout, the perpetrators ultimate motives felt a little far fetched and unbelievable.
To think that he had dated, married and lived with her for so long, all in a grand plan to eventually use her death to get closer to her sister felt a bit hard to believe.
The same thing could be said about there also being a separate drug running scheme going on in the abandoned village at the same time.
But I definitely enjoyed the creepy and isolated setting and goings on, as well as seeing Mila fight to stay alive, both in Germany and once she got back home.
I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for more Sarah Goodwin books in the future.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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