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We Were Sisters by Wendy Clarke-Tour Stop!

This was my second book by the lovely author Wendy Clarke (I read What She Saw earlier this year).  We Were Sisters is out TODAY, published by the brilliant minds at Bookouture.  Special thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for my copy in exchange for an honest review and tour stop.

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Description:

I turn to where I left my baby in his pushchair and pull up short. With a racing heart, I look around wildly, fear gripping my stomach. I only looked away for a moment. The pushchair and my baby are gone. 

Kelly is taking her twin daughters to their first day of school, ushering them into the classroom, her heart breaking to think they might not need her any more, when she turns around and sees that her newborn baby is gone.

As a desperate search ensues, baby Noah is quickly found – parked in front of a different classroom. But when Kelly reaches forward to comfort him, she finds something tucked beside his blanket. A locket that belonged to her sister Freya. A locket Kelly hasn’t seen since the day Freya died.

And then Kelly’s perfectly-ordered life begins to unravel…

We Were Sisters is a heart-pounding suspense thriller that will grip you until the very last page. Fans of Behind Closed Doors, Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to stop reading this incredible book.

My Review:

You guys.  This book is insane.  This is the type of book I find hard to review, simply because I don't want to give spoilers away!  Kelly is a mess.  She's exhausted from her fussy baby, desperately attempting to take care of twins (one is fiercely independent, and the other is SO NEEDY).  Her husband really isn't much help, simply because he just doesn't understand her needs.  Coming from a family I hide from my own fiance because they're terrible like Kelly's, I felt for her so much.  I understood why she kept things to herself, and quite frankly it stressed ME out when people would force her to open up.  Stop trying to make fetch happen.  Let us introverts be.

The story itself goes back and forth between Kelly as a child/teen around her sister Freya, and adult Kelly now as she struggles to maintain her grasp on reality.  Reading the parts about Kelly's mother broke my heart.  It was like the poor girl never had a chance at a normal life.  She did the best she could by pretending her past didn't exist, but it found her anyway.

If you love twisted thrillers, obviously this book will be a great pick up.  I really enjoyed it.  I found it impossible to put down at the end of my lunch break every day.  I read it in about 4 lunch hours at work-obviously I would have been much faster with it had people just left me alone.  Maybe I need a reading tent for my office...

Solid 4 stars for me.  It would have been 5, but I'm burnt out on the husband's viewpoint of "my wife is just having post-partem issues and that's why she's acting out of the ordinary."  It's a minor point for me, but I really wish society would get away from that type of thinking.  We've come a long way, but we still have a long way to go in terms of accepting mothers and their feelings after delivering babies.  Maybe I'm just sensitive, given that we're going to try to start our family at the end of the year and my hormone imbalance makes the feelings struggle an ongoing battle.

Still, I loved this book.  I love Wendy Clarke.  I will gladly read anything she wants to write.  You can find more info about her down below.



Author Bio:

Wendy Clarke started her career writing short fiction and serials for national women's magazines. After having over three hundred short stories published, she progressed to writing novels. With a degree in psychology, and intrigued with how the human mind can affect behaviour, it was inevitable that she would eventually want to explore her darker side.

What She Saw is her debut psychological thriller, published by Bookouture, with a second coming out in August 2019.

In her previous life, Wendy has published three collections of short stories and has been a short story judge for the Chiltern Writers Group, Nottingham Writers Group and The Society of Women Writers and journalists.

Wendy lives with her husband, cat and step-dog in Sussex and when not writing is usually dancing, singing or watching any program that involves food.


Author Social Media Links
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WendyClarkeAuthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WendyClarke99

🌟🌟🌟🌟/5 Stars
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  1. Wendy's WritingAugust 8, 2019 at 12:33 PM

    Thank you so much for your wonderful review. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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