📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Child Across the Street
AUTHOR: Kerry Wilkinson
@kerry.wilkinson
Publisher: Bookouture @bookouture
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐
Published: July 23, 2020
As far as the premise in this thriller, it is very unique. The main character comes back to her hometown and discovers a child getting hit by a car, the driver speeding away. She makes it her goal to find the driver, but along the way find some demons of her own past too.
My biggest complaint was that there weren’t enough clues dropped along the way. While a good many paths led you to different people, I felt like the ending was not as satisfying to put together as I wanted it to be. Some of the characters acted really sketchy for no explained reason, and that made it hard for me to accept the ending given.
But the book does allow for you to experience things with the main character in a deep way, and I thought that was pretty effective storytelling.
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Small Summary:
Wheeling my suitcase down the familiar, hedge-lined street, I smile at the sound of children playing in the park nearby. Suddenly, there’s a screech of car brakes. I rush over to see a bent bike wheel sticking out of the ditch, and underneath, a little boy…
As I turn the rusty key in the lock of the house I grew up in, memories flood back. None of them happy. I never told anyone why I left home twenty years ago, and all I want is to sort out Dad’s funeral as quickly as possible.
Now I’m trapped here, the only witness to a terrible incident that has left an eight-year-old boy fighting for his life. But after a lifetime trying to forget my past, I don’t know if I can trust my memory, or be totally sure of what I saw today.
Sorting through Dad’s things one night – shopping lists in his curly handwriting, piles of old newspapers, dusty sports trophies – I think I hear the back door handle rattle. I tiptoe downstairs, past an open window I’m sure I locked. And a figure darts across the overgrown garden.
Someone is watching me. Someone who knows I’m the only one who saw what happened to little Ethan… or could they know the real reason why I left? Either way, I’m certain that coming back was my biggest mistake. I can’t leave, but the longer I stay, the more danger I’m in…
*****
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.