Sunday, 5 March 2023

What Happens Next by Christina Suzann Nelson




 
Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne made a name for herself telling stories of greatness after tragedy--but her real life does not mirror the stories she tells. While her daughters spend the summer in Hawaii with her ex-husband and his new wife, she must manage life on her own. All of that changes when she's asked to spotlight her childhood best friend's missing person case on her podcast.


Dora Crane has never accepted that her younger daughter could be dead, keeping her home looking the same as when her daughter disappeared. But when her husband leaves her and her older daughter intervenes, she agrees to counseling and to pack up her missing daughter's belongings under one condition: Faith Byrne comes to Deep Valley and sheds light on the cold case.

As the long-abandoned investigation moves forward, old wounds and long-buried secrets are exposed. Will these two women, whose lives have never been the same, finally get the answers they need to reconcile the past and the future?

 

Review: If you are looking for a story that will wring your heart out and leave it mended but never the same, this is your book. How is it that readers love stories that wreck them? That make them stay up way too late and bawl their eyes out? I'll leave that question for later.

 

What Happens Next was a moving story, that really highlighted how our lives are inexplicitly interconnected. Even when whole lives are lived apart, the shadows and lights from the past will always tint the future... This heart-rending story takes place from the point of view of Heather, the young girl who ultimately goes missing, and Dora (her mother) and Faith (a reporter). The points of view are seamlessly done and work together to bring together the full story.

 

Thank-you to Graf Martin Communications and to Baker Publishing House for a copy of this book.  

 


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