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A review by snugglesandpages
That's Not My Name by Megan Lally
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
5.0
A Teenage girl wakes up bloodied and bruised
in a ditch with no memory of who she is or what happened. When Wayne Boone frantically rushes into the station in search of his missing daughter, he has a convincing story and all the evidence to support that the girl is his daughter, incl birth & school records & dozens of photos spanning her childhood. Satisfied the girl has been identified, she is released into Wayne's custody. He looks at her with genuine love and concern & takes care of her the way a father should, but when she starts to have flashes of what feel like memories, they don't match up to the story Wayne has told her.
In nearby Washington City, seventeen year old Lola has been missing for 5 weeks & the Sheriff is convinced her boyfriend is the only suspect worth investigating. Drew might be public enemy number one, but he will never give up on searching for Lola. Fed up with the Sheriff's inaction, Drew, his cousin Max and Lola's best friend (and Sheriff's daughter) Autumn decide it's time to start digging for the evidence needed to force the case along and bring Lola home, but will they be too late...
💠Thoughts:
The setup of this book was so clever and dark that it could almost pass as adult fiction. Dual POV and packed with pulse-racing moments that will keep you flipping the pages, I honestly felt so many emotions reading this. Anger towards the Sheriff for being a lazy SOB, heartbreak for Drew as he navigated the weight of displaced guilt & that eerie overwhelming sensation that something wasn't quite right.
As everything comes together in what seems like an obvious conclusion, the tables turn and you're delivered a massive gut punch instead. I had literal tears rolling down my cheeks by the end. I've not experienced that kind of rollercoaster in a book for a while and to have it while reading a debut YA thriller makes my dark little heart gleeful in how far this genre has come.
This one will live rent-free in my head for a while yet.
in a ditch with no memory of who she is or what happened. When Wayne Boone frantically rushes into the station in search of his missing daughter, he has a convincing story and all the evidence to support that the girl is his daughter, incl birth & school records & dozens of photos spanning her childhood. Satisfied the girl has been identified, she is released into Wayne's custody. He looks at her with genuine love and concern & takes care of her the way a father should, but when she starts to have flashes of what feel like memories, they don't match up to the story Wayne has told her.
In nearby Washington City, seventeen year old Lola has been missing for 5 weeks & the Sheriff is convinced her boyfriend is the only suspect worth investigating. Drew might be public enemy number one, but he will never give up on searching for Lola. Fed up with the Sheriff's inaction, Drew, his cousin Max and Lola's best friend (and Sheriff's daughter) Autumn decide it's time to start digging for the evidence needed to force the case along and bring Lola home, but will they be too late...
💠Thoughts:
The setup of this book was so clever and dark that it could almost pass as adult fiction. Dual POV and packed with pulse-racing moments that will keep you flipping the pages, I honestly felt so many emotions reading this. Anger towards the Sheriff for being a lazy SOB, heartbreak for Drew as he navigated the weight of displaced guilt & that eerie overwhelming sensation that something wasn't quite right.
As everything comes together in what seems like an obvious conclusion, the tables turn and you're delivered a massive gut punch instead. I had literal tears rolling down my cheeks by the end. I've not experienced that kind of rollercoaster in a book for a while and to have it while reading a debut YA thriller makes my dark little heart gleeful in how far this genre has come.
This one will live rent-free in my head for a while yet.