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A review by amysreading_nook
The Girl Who Came Back by Susan Lewis
4.0
***Beware Spoilers***
"When Jules Bright hears a knock on the door, the last person she expects to find is a detective bringing her the news she’s feared for the last three years.
Amelia Quentin is being released from prison.
Jules’s life now is very different from the one she knew before Amelia shattered it completely. Knowing the girl is coming back, Jules must decide what to do. Friends and family gather around, fearing for Jules’s safety. They know that justice was never served; each of them wants to make the Quentin girl pay.
The question is: What will Jules do?
And which of them—she or Amelia—has the most to fear?"
We are first introduced to young Amelia Quentin whilst she is on holiday with her parents, and during this holiday she appears. From this first introduction it becomes quite clear that Amelia is the villain of this story, and as we learn more about her it becomes more apparent just how evil she really is.
This is the first Susan Lewis book i've read, but actually own a couple of others of hers. It's one I picked up in a charity shop that looked intriguing, and I can't say that I was disappointed. This book gripped me initially with it's jumps in time between present day, and past day where we discover what happened to poor Daisy. I was gripped by the first few chapters of this book, however at a certain point I felt annoyed by this book; it seemed to be taking so long to to build up the picture of what happened, and then suddenly for no reason Jules I did feel a bit disheartened by the book at this but continued on, and am glad I did because it really picked up and became intriguing.
I do feel the end of the book was a bit rushed; suddenly we learn that the powers that be weren't happy with the initial investigation and Amelia is suddenly arrested, and then we learn that Dean is likely to be released from prison. It just felt a bit too neatly summed up for me; like it was wrapped up with a bow and presented on Christmas day. It also baffled me how Jules and Kian were so okay with Dean, after all his role in the mystery of Daisy, but I guess that is one mystery that will go unanswered.
"When Jules Bright hears a knock on the door, the last person she expects to find is a detective bringing her the news she’s feared for the last three years.
Amelia Quentin is being released from prison.
Jules’s life now is very different from the one she knew before Amelia shattered it completely. Knowing the girl is coming back, Jules must decide what to do. Friends and family gather around, fearing for Jules’s safety. They know that justice was never served; each of them wants to make the Quentin girl pay.
The question is: What will Jules do?
And which of them—she or Amelia—has the most to fear?"
We are first introduced to young Amelia Quentin whilst she is on holiday with her parents, and during this holiday she appears
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to push her mother overboard, knowing she cannot swim, and leaves her to drownThis is the first Susan Lewis book i've read, but actually own a couple of others of hers. It's one I picked up in a charity shop that looked intriguing, and I can't say that I was disappointed. This book gripped me initially with it's jumps in time between present day, and past day where we discover what happened to poor Daisy. I was gripped by the first few chapters of this book, however at a certain point I felt annoyed by this book; it seemed to be taking so long to to build up the picture of what happened, and then suddenly for no reason Jules
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sleeps with her daughter's boyfriends father; there is no real explanation for this apart from them apparently just really fancying each other....I do feel the end of the book was a bit rushed; suddenly we learn that the powers that be weren't happy with the initial investigation and Amelia is suddenly arrested, and then we learn that Dean is likely to be released from prison. It just felt a bit too neatly summed up for me; like it was wrapped up with a bow and presented on Christmas day. It also baffled me how Jules and Kian were so okay with Dean, after all his role in the mystery of Daisy, but I guess that is one mystery that will go unanswered.