Una noche, Cass y su hermana Emma desaparecen. Tenían quince y diecisiete años respectivamente. Nadie sabe nada de ellas y las autoridades no encuentran una explicación. Hasta que, tres años después, Cass reaparece sin su hermana. Lleva solo lo puesto y cuenta una historia increíble, llena de lagunas...
Para la doctora Abby Winter, psicóloga forense, nada de lo que cuenta tiene sentido. Como experta en trastornos narcisistas de la personalidad, investiga a fondo a la familia de Cass: la madre resulta perturbadora, el padrastro y el hermanastro son problemáticos, incluso la propia Cass no es lo que parece...
Y mientras se investiga para encontrar el paradero de Emma, lo que sale a la luz va más allá de lo que cabía esperar... Y es que cuando los secretos familiares se destapan, las consecuencias pueden ser terribles...

A seriously messed up family. An unreliable narrator. A story that just makes you question everything. I love books like this. I really liked the way the story unraveled the mother and we got to see just exactly what a narcissistic personality is like from beginning to end. I didn’t know what the ending had in store, but I knew it was going to be something turned on it’s head. Fun journey- I recommend! ( )

The way this ultimately weaved together was fascinating, but ultimately not something I was super excited about.
 
Because the way this book was told was all gearing up for the ending, for the "plot twist," but it didn't really make the rest of the book that interesting to read. I was intrigued, yes, but I picked up a couple of other books while reading this and probably would have forgotten it had I not been reading to review.
 
This was another book were the details were quite clever and the way that they were strung together to create a picture was done well. I think perhaps I'm over having something at the end be a big reveal and then having all those details explained. I didn't feel like Walker had much respect for the reader in thinking that they could put pieces together.
 
Walker has strong concepts and I'll look out for her next book, but this one didn't quite do it for me.
 
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. ( )

3.5 rounded up to 4 ( )

It held my interest but it was such a convoluted story that I found the ending a little hard to believe. ( )