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This debut had a premise full of potential. We meet up with a young woman who’s living in Paris under a false identity. Secrets of her background that she’s kept at bay are threatening to come to light with some news from back home: two men have been released from prison in Tennessee; this is the moment she's been dreading. The book alternates between her current life and flashbacks of former one as we try to figure out what it is that she did exactly to get to this point and how it’s related to
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I find this one somewhat hard to assess, perhaps because I'm getting caught up in the likeability trap around Grace. As her past comes back to confront her late in the book, I found myself more in sympathy with the other party's take on who Grace is (and isn't). I'm conflicted on the conclusion as well, as the bow-tidy wrap-up of one story element serves mostly to highlight the complete lack of resolution to the others. I can see potential for Scherm to become quite accomplished as she's got a s
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gave up after only reading 20 pages. simply couldn't get into the story.
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The trick with this one is figuring out who the bad guy is. Maybe it is sevral main characters?
Jul 29, 2014
Beverly
marked it as to-read
Feb 23, 2015
Devin
marked it as to-read
Feb 28, 2015
Sara
marked it as to-read
