Review

For the biggest part of this book, there was only one thought in my mind: “What a bizarre storytelling. I think I should be drunk or high to follow this”.

To be fair, I loved the ambiance, and the horror elements as well as a chilling undercurrent that permeated every page but everything about this was so contrived. The plot twist was predictable and dumb, and with a political agenda. So anticlimactic! And why say they aren’t a cult when they clearly are one? So annoying. I rolled my eyes so many times in the last 20% that they almost fell out of my head. I honestly just finished it only to make sure the dog survived.

I listened to the audiobook version of this book. And the dual narrators did an OUTSTANDING job at voicing all the characters. The sound effects and modulation of voice when they are speaking on the walkie-talkie really enhance the reading experience for me. Well done, guys! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

“Marriage is made of a million beautiful and ugly moments stitched together into a shared tapestry of memories, all of which are viewed and remembered slightly differently like two people staring at the same painting from opposite ends of a room.”

“We’re all dying from the day we are born.”

“Life is beautiful and life is ugly and we have to learn to live with both sides of that same coin and see the light in the darkness. The world is Beautiful Ugly, relationships are Beautiful Ugly, love is Beautiful Ugly. Understanding that makes life easier to live with.”

“Fear can make something beautiful appear ugly.”

Blurb

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.

A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible — a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.

Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t.

Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do