Released: 2017
Received: Audible-My Own Purchase
Rating: 💖💖💖💖
Summary (from author's website):
Gina Royal is the definition of average—a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor—the ultimate warrior mom. Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. But just when she’s starting to feel at ease in her new identity, a body turns up in the lake—and threatening letters start arriving from an all-too-familiar address. One thing is certain: she’s learned how to fight evil. And she’ll never stop.
Things I Loved:
1. The sample on Audible is amazing. I literally held my breath listening to it. It made me click "buy" in about 5 seconds.
2. The Audible narrator, Emily Sutton-Smith, did an excellent job.
3. The pacing was fast and had me sitting in the car to listen long after I had pulled in the driveway. Here lately I just can't seem to push past "slow burn" books. I need a book that jumps into the action fast, and this book does that immediately.
4. The heroine, Gwen, is a strong, capable women who will do ANYTHING to protect her children.
5. There is enough of a creepy factor to be suspenseful, but it is was not enough to keep me up at night (for me, this is a "love"- for you, it may be in the "didn't love" category!)
Things I Didn't Love:
1. I figured out the "twist" before it happened, but I still enjoyed how the story played out.
Take or Leave it Points:
1. Be warned-- this book ends on a bit of a cliff-hanger, although there is a satisfying ending. The cliffhanger leads into the next book in the series.
2. If you like series, great! There is already a second book in the series out and one more on the way.
Check out Stillhouse Lake HERE
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