Michelle Adams | IF YOU KNEW MY SISTER
Thankfully to St. Martin's Press, I had the opportunity to read the brand new Michelle Adams novel IF YOU KNEW MY SISTER. This title will be released on Oct. 3, 2017 and I highly recommend pre-ordering and adding this to your to-be-read list! See my review below...
Plot:
Review:
So, there are a TON of good thrillers and suspense novels out right now and I think as a reader, it's often difficult to set them apart from one another the minute you see one similarity. Luckily, IF YOU KNEW MY SISTER is a title that is different in so many ways. Michelle Adams has crafted together a wonderful novel that is a recipe for what a thriller should be.
Without spoiling anything, this novel is very intricate as the plot is a combination of my favorite aspects of a thriller and suspense novel. Not only is this novel atmospheric and solid on the creep-factor, but what I really enjoyed was not only the back-and-forth of present day and getting a glimpse of the past in the lives of Irini and Elle. While the writing of this one is not only brilliant in the psychological sense, it's especially unique as I found the first half of this novel was a psychological thriller and the second half was a suspense novel with a dash of a police procedural.
Not only am I sucker for vivid imagery when reading, but I also love to read about really intense and complicated characters. This novel is no exception. The characters of Irini and Elle are not only brilliantly written, but so deviant and amazingly complicated, it's hard to believe these aren't real people. One thing I want to make note of is that, while the other characters are also very well written, I found myself picturing every other characters faces and bodies as being blurred while Elle and Irini really stood out and were almost shiny in comparison.
As the novel progresses towards the ending, I was hit with such a large twist that I read a few pages multiple times as I could not believe what was unraveling before my eyes. All of the horrible things said and done were easily put on the back burner as the reader really gets to the bottom of this strained relationship and a family full of secrets and lies.
Michelle Adams, you have really outdone yourself. I cannot wait to see what you do next. And whatever it is, let me know when I can order my copy.
Special thanks to St. Martin's Press for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Rating: 4/5
Plot:
If you knew my sister, you’d run too…
First there was the Robert Kneel incident.
Then what happened to Margot Wolfe.
And now she’s found me again.
Then what happened to Margot Wolfe.
And now she’s found me again.
Dr. Irini Harringford was given away by her parents just before her fourth birthday. Although she has spent her whole life trying to convince herself she doesn't need them, deep down Irini longs to understand why she was abandoned, while her parents kept her older sister, Elle.
So when Elle gets in touch with news that their mother has died, Irini reluctantly agrees to return to the family home. But she is ill at ease. She and Elle are not close. Irini knows only too well what Elle is capable of. Inexplicably drawn to her enigmatic sister, yet terrified of the sway she holds, Irini tries to protect herself even as she is sucked back into her family's toxic web of secrets...and soon realizes that the past is more complicated than she imagined, and that her very future rests upon discovering the truth about why she was really given away.
Review:
So, there are a TON of good thrillers and suspense novels out right now and I think as a reader, it's often difficult to set them apart from one another the minute you see one similarity. Luckily, IF YOU KNEW MY SISTER is a title that is different in so many ways. Michelle Adams has crafted together a wonderful novel that is a recipe for what a thriller should be.
Without spoiling anything, this novel is very intricate as the plot is a combination of my favorite aspects of a thriller and suspense novel. Not only is this novel atmospheric and solid on the creep-factor, but what I really enjoyed was not only the back-and-forth of present day and getting a glimpse of the past in the lives of Irini and Elle. While the writing of this one is not only brilliant in the psychological sense, it's especially unique as I found the first half of this novel was a psychological thriller and the second half was a suspense novel with a dash of a police procedural.
Not only am I sucker for vivid imagery when reading, but I also love to read about really intense and complicated characters. This novel is no exception. The characters of Irini and Elle are not only brilliantly written, but so deviant and amazingly complicated, it's hard to believe these aren't real people. One thing I want to make note of is that, while the other characters are also very well written, I found myself picturing every other characters faces and bodies as being blurred while Elle and Irini really stood out and were almost shiny in comparison.
As the novel progresses towards the ending, I was hit with such a large twist that I read a few pages multiple times as I could not believe what was unraveling before my eyes. All of the horrible things said and done were easily put on the back burner as the reader really gets to the bottom of this strained relationship and a family full of secrets and lies.
Michelle Adams, you have really outdone yourself. I cannot wait to see what you do next. And whatever it is, let me know when I can order my copy.
Special thanks to St. Martin's Press for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Rating: 4/5
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