WHAT LIES BETWEEN US

BY JOHN MARRS

I just finished reading “What Lies Between Us” by John Marrs. A highly anticipated book that has been raved about almost everywhere I look. It is about a mother and a daughter who live together in their family home. It starts with an explanation that at the end of each night the daughter Nina, locks mother Maggie, in the attic and attaches her to a chain so that escape is impossible. What follows is a story told from both perspectives of how their existance came to this. There is a lot of trauma in the past told through both perspectives, and the beauty of how the book is told is that the reader doesn’t know which character is the more evil or disturbed one.

There is abandonment, pregnancy, adoption, infertility, lies, mental illness, more lies, murder…many thngs that happen to pull this story forward and it is told in a tight, fast-paced and twisted way that makes this book very hard to put down.

I loved the characters and their back stories. It was interesting to see that thay both had faults and moments of tenderness. They were both victims of trauma in their own right and I felt compassion for both of them.

Some of the plot developments were a bit over the top. How did no one figure our that Maggie was missing? How did the police not suspect anything? What about the Dad? Noone wondered or investigated what happened to him? I suppose in some parts of the story you have to suspend disbelief long enough to keep reading…because the payoff was awesome. There are so many twists and turns that I don’t know which was my favourite…maybe the true story of the events that led to the Dad leaving…I don’t want to give anything away so I will stop there. But not before giving a strong recommendation to read this book.

I have read John Marrs before and this book has made me an even bigger fan of his.

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Happy Reading



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