Book #121 |
Book: Bring Me Back | Author: B.A. Paris | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Audiobook |
Pages: 291 | Duration: 12/03/25 – 12/04/25 (2 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★☆ | Genres: fiction, psychological thriller, mystery, crime | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Man imminently marrying sister of dead former girlfriend gets mind-fucked. 🖌6-word review: Twisted tale. Reader gets mind-fucked, too. |
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| 💭A memorable quote: “Time is an oddity when it comes to memories.” | |||
| Description:* Finn and Layla: young and in love, their whole lives ahead of them. Driving back from a holiday in France one night, Finn pulls in to a service station, leaving Layla alone in the car. When he returns, minutes later, Layla has vanished, never to be seen again. That’s the story Finn tells the police. It’s the truth – but not the whole truth. 12 years later, Finn has built a new life with Ellen, Layla’s sister, when he receives a phone call. Someone has seen Layla. But is it her – or someone pretending to be her? If it is her, what does she want? And what does she know about the night she disappeared?*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: This tale has more twists than Rapunzel’s braids. As the reader, I could see possible truth in every theory the protagonist considered — and there were a plethora of them throughout the book. What kept me from giving it 5 stars was: Enough of those goddamn Matryoshka dolls already! (And the fact that the author didn’t, at least once, use that proper name for those dolls.) This was one of those plots that made me think, “How do writers come up with these things?” | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
