Summer Lowenthal

**Big Spoilers** To be positive first- it was a page turner, I was so interested in the story unfolding which is weird because it did unfold and unfold into BIG plot holes literally everywhere! I love CH in EVERY other work I’ve read and can say that the only thing wrong with this thriller/suspense novel is that she is a romance novelist so the thriller/suspense fell short creating the plot holes but the romance/love/desire was there! But good on her for trying something different! 1. One small change would have turned this whole thing right side up, if CH meant for it to be that it was Jeremy that was the antagonist, I don’t know if anybody else noticed this but hear me out. He was just in the right place at the meet cute, knew who Lowen was, knew he had sought her out, lied to get her to come to their secluded house, charmed her, teased her, tricked her into believing him and ANGEL the obsession was all there for a suspense novel! If it had just gone in this direction instead it would have been a beyond 5 star book! I was thinking that he was drugging Lowen at first, several times throughout the book he would feed her or give her a drink but not take it himself or say he already ate whatever it was then those were the instances she would think/ hallucinate Verity fully conscious. The two prominent instances were the CAKE (seeing her at the top of the stairs) & the COFFEE towards the end that lead to her seeing Verity move on the monitor. (Literally planning to reread for the sake of this theory alone, and find more times she consumed something he didn’t) with out the “drug” theory we as readers believed Lowen that she was fully conscious before we knew for sure , there was a big missed opportunity in that she WAS AWAKE! Ahh I could scream. 2. It would be better written if it turned out that Jeremy was actually the writer of the manuscript which would make sense that he portrayed her as obsessed with him and the intensity of the intimate scenes of their relationship. HE was obsessed with Verity first, then the children stole her from him instead (breastfeeding repulsed him, their cries angered him, etc.) HE was jealous of the kids not the other way around. 3. CREW hmm Crew is a curveball.. I don’t know he’s so underdeveloped it’s hard to build him into my sense of the book. The two times he hurt himself, him talking/ knowing Verity was awake. Him being silent about the sisters/ then not silence about the sisters.. it’s just underdeveloped. 4. CH could have taken some sex out of the manuscript to make time to develop the sleeping walking in Lowen and use it in the suspense more than once. 5. I think what ruined it is how unrealistic it was that she was faking the paralysis. The whole letter at the end was so drawn out and forced and detailed, it had dialog and everything. In the end.. making it so that Jeremy was drugging Lowen would be so much more realistic, plus he had motive he read her books over his own wife’s because his obsession shifted to Lowen through her books, I feel it could have been revealed to Lowen had she come across a letter when they were moving written to Jeremy before the car accident explaining she read the manuscript, denied the claims, threatened to take Crew and run, but she loved him yada yada. I saw others saying that more than him just writing the manuscript he could have been the one writing the whole time and Verity was just the face (also making sense of talking up pen names so much) that could really work in this scenario.

read the whole thing in two days! The story was captivating, I literally could not put the book down. The way it was written leaves the reader craving more to find out what happens next. The romance, the twists, the revelations are all that of every good book I’ve read. I’m leaving a 5 star review because it’s everything a good, captivating romance novel should be. If you love, love and believe on insta-love and soulmates this book has to be added to you TBR (to be read). I can’t wait to get my hands on another book by this author!