elusivek | Book: Whisper Me This

Whisper Me This
Kerry Anne King
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Single mother Maisey Addington has always fallen short of her own mother’s expectations—never married, a bit adrift, wasting her high IQ on dead-end jobs. The only thing Maisey’s sure she’s gotten right is her relationship with her twelve-year-old daughter, Elle…until a phone call blows apart the precarious balance of their lives. Maisey’s mother is in a coma, and her aging father faces charges of abuse and neglect.

Back at her childhood home, Maisey must make a heartrending life-or-death decision. Her confused father has destroyed family records, including her mother’s final wishes. Searching for answers, Maisey uncovers one unspeakable secret after another when she stumbles upon a shattering truth: a twin sister named Marley.

Maisey’s obsession with solving the mystery of her sister forces her to examine her darkest memories and triggers a custody battle with Elle’s father. Will Maisey’s love for her daughter be strong enough to break a cycle of abuse and create a new beginning for them all?

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I don't remember how I came by this book. I think it was on Amazon under the "customers also bought this..." recommendation.

An enjoyable enough read but I did find some things that didn't seem to add up.

I thought the book would go more on the lighthearted course of Maisey being full of imagination and scatterbrained and such, but apparently this came to be of a rather serious nature.

Maisey's mother has an accident and dies, and while trying to put things together she stumbles into a family secret - that she has a sister! And oh, she gets to the bottom of it, tracking her sister and unearthing some unsavoury history her mother had experienced.

I would have liked some incidents to be fleshed out a bit more, such as the custody "battle", since it was a point of worry for Maisey, but the book ended up summarising the whole ordeal into 2 sentences and that was that.

The part on Tony refusing to go on a relationship due to his repressed memory seemed a bit weird, but hey, what do I know about how minds work.

An enjoyable read that felt a bit short when it ended.