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A review by nancy_ahyee
Remember Me by D.E. White
3.0
From the publisher: Fifteen years ago Ellen Smith vanished from the woods near her small Welsh village. Never to be seen again. Eight people were in the woods that night: eight splintered lives, eight people hiding a terrible secret. But who can remember the truth? Now, Ellen’s best friend, Detective Ava Cole is all grown up back in the village where it all began, and everyone is asking the same question. What really happened to Ellen?
Told as Ava's story in the third person, there were chapters interspersed in the first-person point of view of the villain. Ava has returned to Wales because her ex-husband Paul is dying, and she wants to reconnect with her son Stephen who was still a toddler when she left him with Paul. Another of their childhood friends, Penny, married Paul and believes that Stephen will need Ava in his life once Paul dies. With Ava's return comes a lot of anxiety over what happened to Ellen back when Ava and her friends were all teenagers.
There were a lot of characters in this story, which made it difficult to see a lot of character development -- even with the key eight, especially since the current day deals with their children and how the events in the past come full circle in the present. As an LAPD detective, Ava finds herself embroiled in a missing persons case in Wales that seems to be tied to Ellen's disappearance in the past.
This story had me guessing until about halfway through when I figured out the villain, but then it had me second-guessing if I was actually correct. The author does a good job of pointing the reader in a specific direction. I think Ava makes some moves that she shouldn't as a detective, but we can pass them off as her being too emotionally invested in the case.
Definitely an interesting read. Just make sure you pay close attention to the characters as you get started.
Thanks to NetGalley and HQ Digital for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. This title is scheduled for publication on February 6, 2019.
Told as Ava's story in the third person, there were chapters interspersed in the first-person point of view of the villain. Ava has returned to Wales because her ex-husband Paul is dying, and she wants to reconnect with her son Stephen who was still a toddler when she left him with Paul. Another of their childhood friends, Penny, married Paul and believes that Stephen will need Ava in his life once Paul dies. With Ava's return comes a lot of anxiety over what happened to Ellen back when Ava and her friends were all teenagers.
There were a lot of characters in this story, which made it difficult to see a lot of character development -- even with the key eight, especially since the current day deals with their children and how the events in the past come full circle in the present. As an LAPD detective, Ava finds herself embroiled in a missing persons case in Wales that seems to be tied to Ellen's disappearance in the past.
This story had me guessing until about halfway through when I figured out the villain, but then it had me second-guessing if I was actually correct. The author does a good job of pointing the reader in a specific direction. I think Ava makes some moves that she shouldn't as a detective, but we can pass them off as her being too emotionally invested in the case.
Definitely an interesting read. Just make sure you pay close attention to the characters as you get started.
Thanks to NetGalley and HQ Digital for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. This title is scheduled for publication on February 6, 2019.