Sister Sister A truly absorbing psychological thriller (Audible Audio Edition) Sue Fortin, Helen Keeley, HarperCollins Publishers Limited Books
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USA Today best-selling author of The Girl Who Lied.
Alice beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar.
Clare intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealous.
Clare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life.
Alice thinks Clare is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family.
One of them is telling the truth. The other is a maniac.
Two sisters. One truth.
Sister Sister A truly absorbing psychological thriller (Audible Audio Edition) Sue Fortin, Helen Keeley, HarperCollins Publishers Limited Books
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Sister Sister A truly absorbing psychological thriller (Audible Audio Edition) Sue Fortin, Helen Keeley, HarperCollins Publishers Limited Books Reviews
I was pulled into this story at the beginning, and by chapter 9, I was making notes about what I thought was going to happen. Some I got right, and some I got wrong. As much as I was pulled in at the beginning, though, it started to drag. I remembered the second chapter referenced six weeks earlier, but I found myself double checking because I couldn't believe it hadn't been more than six weeks. Also, Clare is an attorney but doesn't seem to be able to convince anyone of what's going on, including her husband who I think would be most inclined to believe her. And I'll echo some of the other reviews about editing. There were several places where main character names were mixed up. **MILD SPOILER** There's a "twist" at the end with an e-mail sent from the villain that's pretty much irrelevant because the villain is dead and the plot line doesn't add anything to the story. All in all, it wasn't bad. I would recommend it as a good read but not a "gripping psychological thriller."
The set up of this book is a mother and daughter (and the daughter's husband and 2 kids) being reunited with a long lost sister/daughter who was kidnapped by the father and spirited away to the United States from England 20ish years ago. What seems like a dream come true to family slowly turns into something else entirely, as the reader experiences a growing sense of dread. One of our characters is getting some serious gaslighting treatment. Best not to reveal too much more.
I liked the book, it was decently written, but I saw the writing on the wall way before our hero did and kept asking myself how can such a smart person be so blind? The last 40% or so of the book was just waiting around for everyone else to figure out what I already knew. As well, it felt like a ton of plot twists were thrown in at the very end.
Spoiler alert. The fact that Clare put up with that creep of a husband ruined the whole story for me. The mother protecting who she thought was her daughter was fairly acceptAble but the way the husband Luke acted towards Clare was way overblown and hard to swallow. The fact that Clare put up with that treatment and stayed with the creep after all was said and done was too unbelievable to me. Also mom's and Clare's real father keeping the secret of her parentage while she worked for him for cripe's sake was just too much. Hated it.
This is a sit on the edge of your chair thriller! It starts innocently enough about a family in England who has over years, searched for another family member. I was on the edge of my seat wondering what the heck was going on. Whatever you think is going to happen 'doesn't.' The infamous twists and turns kept me reading into the night because I had to find out what would happen next. Fantastic story! I look forward to reading more by Sue Fortin. Enjoy!
An interesting read, you could hear the UK accent in the dialogue. Loved Luke, and Clare, the family. Most families have secrets, and do everything in their power to keep those secrets, but, these murders were not from the secrets, but born of greed. Well written, and an intriguing plot. Read and enjoy!
So much potential, thrown away because the author decided to turn the heroine into a complete moron 70% of the way through the book. Clare is a married solicitor who lives with her husband, two young daughters, and Mom in the home she grew up in. Pretty happy life, except for one thing, when she was little, her Dad took her younger sister Alice away to America for good, against the will of the Mom, and, after years of searching, Clare and her Mom finally hear from Alice, and the family is quickly reunited. But, of course, all is not what it seems.
Here's the thing, the mystery here isn't that hard to figure out, it's actually pretty basic Lifetime movie plot. However, I think the author did a good enough job building the story and characters in a way that made me want to continue reading, to see the story carried out to the end. While not a page-turner, I genuinely was interested to see the plot fully realized, and enjoyed reading it....
Until about 70% of the way in, where Clare turns into an imbecile. I'll get more specific below, but let's just say, Clare is supposed to be a smart lawyer, yet she had multiple opportunities to gather solid proof to prove her case, but instead goes abut asking questions, while overlooking the most obvious things. Long analogy here, but it's like in the movies/TV when someone finds out a secret, and in the process of trying to tell that secret to someone else who doesn't want to hear it, they decide, instead of just blurting out what they know like a normal person, to waste time arguing w/the other person that they have something really important to say, and just keep repeating that, pleading to be listened to while the other person refuses to listen, leaving without ever hearing the big news. All the time you, the frustrated viewer, are screaming at the screen, "Just friggin say it!" But of course, they never do, because it's a cheap plot device to drag out the secret and build tension. Those are Clare's actions (or inactions) the last 25% to 30% of this book. A cheap plot device.
Plus, if I'm really honest, she was starting to get on my nerves before then for how she responded to her husband, Mom, friends, boss, and Alice. She behaved like an overly emotional child instead of the rational thinker she should be in her line of business. And why do people in books so easily doubt themselves? Sorry, but pretty sure I'd remember committing a very violent act. You'd have to be pretty insecure to be so easily convinced against yourself, no matter how emotional you are. And don't get me started on her husband. All marriages are based on trust, for him to turn on her so quickly and thoroughly, especially after being skeptical initially...I would have thrown his butt to the curb. Her ready forgiveness, to me, made her look even more dumb. At least make him grovel.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS
Here are my big gripes with this book
- again, she lets her family, boss, friends walk all over her. Stand up for yourself. How do you let your husband convince you that you violently attacked a painting, or think you made things up you KNOW you saw? I can be convinced, in my stress, that I forgot to send an email I thought I did, or pick something up from the grocery store I swear I did. But knife a painting???
- she's a lawyer who doesn't know how to build a case or properly collect evidence. She writes down a list of questions, but instead of meticulously gathering proof just yells out random accusations, even though it was so easy to gather obvious evidence. She put herself in a position to let Alice get the better of her. She was too easily manipulated.
-Trip to America she was already suspicious of the picture due to the clock (and sorry, but dyslexia explained for mixing up an image? Maybe I'm uneducated, but red flag,) yet it never occurs to her to show the picture to the neighbor, waitress, or Roma? She never asks Roma about the dyslexia? She doesn't share her suspicions with the woman who could be her witness that Alice was not who she said she was? She had three people who KNEW Alice and/or Martha, but doesn't ask them to back her up?
-Luke so she lost her evidence, but, again, hello, tell them to call Roma or the neighbor. What about the eye color. She could have told Luke, in a rational way, what she learned, but she behaves so irrationally, pleading with him not to leave. Plot device.
Tom seriously never occurred to her she was drugged in college? 3-day "hangover?"
-The cliche plot device where the main character decides to confront the bad guy at a time/place that leaves them completely vulnerable. Why, when he went to get the wine, and she heard the first 30 seconds on the call, did she not just grab it & run, before he got back?
-the nudes pics what was the point of those? And her 1st thought when she sees Leonard is to worry about him seeing the pics? Huh? How about being rescued???
-There's more, but you get the point. If Clare had been written better, this could have been 4 stars...
Sister Sister started good and held my attention; but as the story continued it got long and boring. When the ending finally came, I was glad the book ended. The ending came quickly as though the author was under time restraints and the book just had to end. And it did!
I struggled whether to choose this book or not, very glad I did! Excellent mystery, suspense and the perfect twists. Even if you figure out the plot, you'll keep reading to figure how did it come about.
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