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⏰ 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫: Paloma Evans can’t escape her past as a former Sri Lankan orphan. Now 30, she spends her days drinking and running a seedy online business until her roommate Arun uncovers her deepest secret, and then boom – shows up dead in her apartment. But then the body disappears. What is happening to Paloma? Is it all in her head? Is the past returning or is she dealing with unresolved trauma?
💡𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: Man, this has Hollywood movie script, M. Night Shyamalan written allllll over it! I haven’t enjoyed twists this good since I binged some Twizzlers yo! Okay now that I’ve got that out of my system, ugh my reading has been side-lined due to a new job so this was a welcomed respite, working in some chapters here and there. Absolutely LOVED the angle of this one – a past in a foreign country, some crazy weird events, and there’s me, just lapping up the mystery like a dog in his bowl.
Paloma is her own juxtaposition of complex yet simple – you want to shake her and be that friend that says, “Guuurl! What. Are. You. Doing?”
Can’t say much else without visiting Spoiler City and I avoid that location.
𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆𝗠𝗮𝗴𝘀.𝗰𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
📚𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞: Mystery/Thriller
😍𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨: Those ready for different in their teacup called mystery!
🙅♀️ 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨: If you are offended by conditions of orphanages in other countries or foreign adoptions.
Thank you to the author, NetGalley and Berkeley Publishing for my advanced copy in exchange for my always-honest review and for being patient while I rock this new 9th grade English teacher job!
