by Susan Roberts
When her estranged daughter asks to hear the one story she doesn’t want to tell, a woman spins lie after lie to protect her perfect life in this gripping novel.
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| January 2025; Lake Union; 978-1662517952 audio, ebook, print (267 pages); domestic thriller |
Ramona knew that she was adopted but wanted to learn more about her bio parents. She tracks her bio mom down and after a brief dinner, she is invited to a grand mountain hotel that Amy and her husband run. Ramona shows up there with lots of questions for Amy. At first, Amy spins a fantastic story about who the father was (of course he was someone rich and successful). When Ramona asks more questions about her father, Amy refuses to tell her anything else and then changes her story a bit. Ramona decides to call the man that Amy claimed was her father and gets a completely different story when he tells her that he was NOT her father. Ramona is beginning to wonder what the truth really is. Amy changed her story so many times that the real story remained elusive. In some ways, it appears that Amy wants to get to know her daughter more but it was difficult for Ramona to like her mother much due to the changing story of her birth and why she was given up for adoption. There's a lot of twists and turns before the truth really comes out. The story is told in alternating chapters by Ramona and Amy. It's apparent that Ramona is really affected by being adopted and wants to find out more about her bio parents,. At the same time in Amy's chapters, it's very apparent that she would sooner spin a happy story for her daughter than tell her the truth.
This was an interesting book and the twists and turns made it a page-turner. My main problem with the book is that I didn't like Amy at all - not even a little bit. All Ramona wanted to know was the truth about her birth and why she was given up for adoption. Amy refused to tell her the real story - she wanted a story that would show her in a good light as a caring mother who had to give her daughter up when in reality almost everything that came out of Amy's mouth was a lie. Amy was childish and very manipulative. Other than my dislike for one of the main characters, I did enjoy the book and will read other books by this author.
Will Amy ever reveal the full story of that fateful summer at the lodge? And if so, can Ramona live with the truth?
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Susan Roberts grew up in Michigan but loves the laid-back life at her home in the Piedmont area of North Carolina where she is three hours from the beach to the east and the mountains in the west. She reads almost anything but her favorite genres are Southern Fiction and Historical Fiction.
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