The style of the writing with the switching POVs really helped to build the story and I really liked that there was even her POV as she was in the coma she fell into after she was shot. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls—beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard—has disappeared. This twisty, addictively page-turning suspense novel about a perfect family’s perfect façade will keep you turning pages until its explosive ending. Driscoll cleverly reflects the adrenalin of the action onto the readers of the book and I really got caught up in the exciting chase for answers.

The Perfect Family doesn’t exist, it is a social construct which forever lies in the eyes of the beholder , and is held up as a pedestal worth climbing on top of.One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. This makes Alex laugh for the first time and Matthew feels another shift inside; the guy in the blanket no longer sounding like or looking like a man who has any intention whatsoever of ending his life. In addition, some of the narrative is before the accident, giving readers a greater understanding of Gemma's past, along with her parents too. It’s an ending that will send a chill down your spine as you realize that one of the plot threads remains open-ended.

it was a Kindle First read and I chose it as this is my fourth one by her and she's never let me down before. I don’t mind admitting that the author had me totally fooled and I never once suspected the actual perpetrator, leaving me shook when we got to the big reveal. As each person agonizes over their secrets and the problems they may be causing the family unit is further broken down. Best-selling author Mark Manson brings his signature no-nonsense wisdom back to the subject he started his career covering: relationships. that some of the secrets Adler family members are keeping are blown (by the keeper) way out of proportion.It’s the kind of story that will make you think twice the next time you let a stranger into your home. The secrets make you wait for them to get worse, more interesting, worth the kind of events that occurring – and spoiler, they aren’t worth it.

I did think I had one of the characters sussed, and although I was right to a degree, I was wrong on another aspect of what I thought. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. They remain in denial and are obviously disappointed and angry but (in fairness to them) they aren’t trying to coerce him – at least not yet. But when she stumbles and falls on stage during the ceremony, a beautiful moment turns to chaos: Gemma has been shot, and just like that, she’s fighting for her life. I also thought some of the transitions from flashback to present, or viceversa felt abrupt and choppy.I knew this was going to be a great read from the beginning and, even though I guessed how some of the story would conclude, I enjoyed the buzz as the plot reached its climax. A very cinematic, and visual storytelling style is employed from the very beginning, which pulls you in to the mystery , alternating between what is going on behind Gemma’s medicated sleep and Matthew’s investigations . Any images and covers will have a text description for the visually impaired enabled through their device's text-to-speech function and similarly, this complies with digital braille readers and similar devices. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money. The police investigation had several unexpected twists that helped to create suspense and cast some suspicion upon several characters.

Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. And that’s when she has to ask herself – how far is she willing to go, how much is she willing to do, to preserve her perfect family? For more than twenty-five years as a journalist―including fifteen years as a BBC TV news presenter―Teresa Driscoll followed stories into the shadows of life.

Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating He is not who he says he is…, paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. These incidents—especially the graduation shooting—are high profile, but a local detective inspector keeps the case, aided by the PI and a police detective sergeant.