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Jan 04, 2020 Cassie Lacina rated it liked it

This book took me an incredibly long time to get into. While this touches on a very delicate subject that has impacted many families across our country, I had a very hard time empathizing with the main character and caring what happened in her story. The last 100 or so pages went very quick as things finally started to come together, but really for me this could have been a much shorter book.

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Aug 10, 2025 Courtney rated it really liked it

"Connor can do bad things," Kacey says, "but he's not all bad. Almost nobody is."

I didn't really know that much about this book before diving in, and despite that, I found myself sucked into this story of two sisters. It's both a mystery and a story of familial bonds and Moore tells the story incredibly well. An enjoyable read. ...more

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Dec 12, 2019 Shannon rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019

Thank you to Netgalley, Goodreads, and the publisher, Edelweiss, for providing me an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion. This book is set to publish in January 2020.

This was a tough book to read. Not in the sense of language but the topics of addition and police corruption. This story goes into multiple aspects of the opioid crisis from how it divides families to prostitution to get a fix to babies born to addicts and the withdrawal that they go through.

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Feb 09, 2020 Rebecca rated it liked it

Shelves: 2020-books-from-my-shelf

Overall, the prose is nice, characterization excellent, and it generally kept my attention. The relationship between Mickey & Kacey is well done and moving. However, it did feel overly long and as a reader, I would've liked either the serial killer aspect to be eliminated or a bit more emphasis on it, especially since that has been marketed as a thriller. ...more

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