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Andrea Mara

Autor(a) de All Her Fault

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Obras por Andrea Mara

All Her Fault (2021) 57 exemplares
One Click (2018) 51 exemplares
The Other Side of the Wall (2017) 46 exemplares
No One Saw a Thing (2023) 33 exemplares
The Sleeper Lies (2020) 29 exemplares
Hide and Seek (2022) 10 exemplares
Su peor pesadilla (2023) 1 exemplar

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Marissa and Peter are devastated when their four-year old son is kidnapped from his infants school in Dublin. Jenny is horrified when it appears that her own childminder, Carrie, is responsible for Milo's kidnapping. As families rally round, gossip spreads, and desperation grows, the dark web of secrets from the past are exposed bit by bit, and murder, blackmail, and resentment come to the forefront.

It was a good story and I enjoyed it up until the concluding chapters. I don't like it when a reader is not given enough information to spot the culprit, when the answers lie in untold stories from years ago. It annoys me. There are several different deceptions in play, which seems unlikely given the nature of the story. I think maybe the author could have written the conclusion more tightly, or let leak some of the ending in subtle ways throughout the book. It was still a good read, but the novel disappointed me in the end.… (mais)
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ahef1963 | 4 outras críticas | Feb 16, 2024 |
A well written mystery adventure with lots of intrigue based around two children being separated from their mother when they jumped on a train before their mother, one emerging at another station but not the other.

3.5/5
 
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gianouts | 1 outra crítica | Nov 25, 2023 |
Sive (how do you pronounce that?) is still trying to wrangle her pram onto the tube train when the doors close with her six- and two-year old daughters on the train and her and the baby still no the platform. The two-year old is taken off the train by a commuter and returned to her at the next station, but there is no sign of the older girl, Faye. Chapters describing Sive and her husband Aaron's desperate attempts to find Faye with the help of the transport police are interspersed with chapters describing what they have been up to for the last few days in London. They have been attending a sort of reunion with Aaron's former housemates, although I'm not sure why, because they were mostly incredibly unlikable and didn't seem to like each other at all.

I thought this was well-paced and there were plenty of twists and turns, although the ending was a bit attenuated - so much discussion of who drank what and when... I never really understood how switching the backpacks achieved anything - witnesses are not likely to distinguish between different coloured dresses of a cartoon character. I loved the interaction between Aaron and his assistant and found that strand the most satisfying.
… (mais)
 
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pgchuis | 1 outra crítica | Jul 17, 2023 |
I heard the author's interview on @another.chapter.podcast and honestly once she talked about how much she liked Where I End by Sophie White I decided to pick this up to listen to on audiobook even though it’s not my usual type of book and I am so glad I did.

Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare. Milo is missing.

From here Mara keeps you on the edge of your seat as the search for Milo begins and we meet three other women, Jenny the mother of the boy Milo should have been with, Carrie, Jenny's live-in childminder and Irene, Carrie's mother. Each woman has their own stories to tell and their own investment in Milo's disappearance.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. It's a well-written, gripping, and emotionally charged thriller that will keep you hooked until the very end - with a twist I did not see coming.

Highly recommended even if it's not your usual genre.
… (mais)
 
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rosienotrose | 4 outras críticas | Jul 11, 2023 |

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8
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236
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