BLURB
My name is Irini. I was given away.
My name is Elle. I was kept.
All her life Irini thought she was given away because her family didn't want her. What if the truth is something worse?
Two sisters. Two separate lives.
One family bound by a harrowing secret.
MY THOUGHTS
I really enjoyed this
book by Michelle Adams. A taut, frightening tale about two sisters and the
poisoned relationship that binds them.
Irini and Elle are two
very different sisters. Irini is shy and she is still trying to work out who
she is; Elle is confident, bold, outgoing and dangerous. But something is not
right in their relationship. When Irini was three her parents decided to give
her up but decided to keep Elle. Irini desperately wants to know why her
parents abandoned her when she was only a baby. Why did they choose to keep
Elle and not her?
I found My Sister
impossible to put down once I had started. Michelle’s writing is hugely
addictive and she draws you into her characters world. There was some really
nice description in her writing. I loved the depth that she explored in the two
sisters’ and she made me want to get to the bottom of it all and what started
their spiky relationship.
The novel begins with
Irini receiving a call from her sister in the middle of the night. Elle tells
her that their mother has died and asks if she will be coming to the funeral.
For Irini this is her chance to find out why she was given away as a baby,
maybe she can finally get to the bottom of it all.
There are some
unsettling scenes in this book and I found Elle a really dislikeable character,
but this was great in adding to the tension and it kept me turning the pages to
find out what happened next. You can sense a storm looming on every single page
of this book and the revelations towards the end really did surprise me.
If you start reading
this book, you’ll want to make sure that you don’t have any plans for the rest
of the day because you’ll want to get it finished. A great debut! Five stars
from me. Thank you to Millie Seward at Headline for sending me a copy to review.
Publisher: Headline
Publication date: 20th April 2017
Print length: 384 pages
This sounds great
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