Ratings10
Average rating3.6
In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared. She'd been enjoying her teenage summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. Mysteriously ominous things began to happen-blood in the bed, periods of blackouts, a feeling of being watched-though Bec remained oblivious of what was to come. Eleven years later she is replaced. A young woman, desperate after being arrested, claims to be the decade-missing Bec. Soon the impostor is living Bec's life. Sleeping in her bed. Hugging her mother and father. Learning her best friends' names. Playing with her twin brothers. But Bec's welcoming family and enthusiastic friends are not quite as they seem. As the impostor dodges the detective investigating her case, she begins to delve into the life of the real Bec Winter-and soon realizes that whoever took Bec is still at large, and that she is in imminent danger. As the pretender walks in Rebecca's shoes, she realizes that whoever is responsible for Bec's disappearance is still in her life. In this chilling psychological thriller, one woman's dark past becomes another's deadly future.
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What a weird unexpected ending. I had a general uneasy feeling all the way through and that ending was one I didn't see coming. Plenty of suspicious characters surrounding a woman who pretends to be a girl who went missing years ago, which leads to complications galore.
2.5 rounded to a 3.
I'm torn with this one. In some parts the writing is good and I'm hooked, and then in the next it's just a jumble of thoughts and happenings. There are quite a few scenarios introduced that end up having nothing to do with the baseline story and one is left wondering HUH?
The story is told from the 2 Becs. One is supposed to be in her mid-twenties (but is written like a giddy teenager), and the other is 16 (who is actually portrayed closer to that age). Bec's twin brothers (in the present day) are also written like they are adolescents. This definitely made it hard to connect or care about the characters.
There is a twist but it's thrown into the ending so quickly there wasn't time to process before the book just ends. I don't think this is one I would recommend to hardcore thriller lovers.