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As we uncovered Emma’s secret, the layers were so well executed and developed that every curve ball and reveal kept me guessing. Emma’s postpartum psychosis places her in an extremely vulnerable position, which allows Janice to make a decision that changes the course of several lives. From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an up-all-night page-turner with a dark secret at its core I have held you at night for ten years and I didn’t even know your name. But the disconnect with the plot and the decisions of one MC resulted in a strictly average experience. Q: Was there anything—either about the characters or their journeys—that surprised you while writing?
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Emma and Leo narrate the various chapters that start off strongly intriguing but as things become clearer, some things seemed to implausible to me. What he learns is that she’s not who he thought she was, and she’s got a whopper of a secret (or two!Charlie has known about Emma all his life and has reached out to her now hoping to gain information about his mother’s disappearance. I appreciated the fact that Walsh made it a point to show that not all spouses who are hiding things are murderous psychopaths - sometimes the secrets are brought about by despair, loss, and even love. As Emma attempts to cover up her secrets, Leo digs through their house for clues and tracks down people from her past in an attempt to figure out why she’s lying and what she’s hiding from him. It's well-written and intelligently written, with fully developed characters who find themselves caught up in a situation none of them ever expected to be in.
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But what I found the most interesting was that uncovering those secrets was just as intriguing as finding out whether someone was a murdering psychopath.All in all, povestea vă va prinde și veți fi curioși să aflați ce ascunde Emma și de ce și-a ascuns trecutul. Emma has always feared that if Leo found out the truth, he would never forgive her, and it looks as if she was right. Emma reveals herself to be an extremely likeable heroine who suffered horrible losses and betrayals as a college student, but pulled herself out of the mess admirably and made a wonderful life for herself.