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A review by that_bookish_life
Dear Child by Romy Hausmann
3.5
A woman, disoriented in the hospital after being hit by a vehicle; a girl, who arrived with the injured woman, filling in strange details, which eventually lead both the hospital employees as well as us, the reader, to understand that this is not a simple accident. The girl and the woman are there as a result of fleeing a cabin where they have been held hostage. The police believe they have found a woman who went missing more than a decade before. But have they?
Dear Child is told from the shifting perspectives of the injured woman, the girl, and the missing woman's father. I really appreciate how we're plopped right into the story, disoriented, confused, trying to piece together what exactly is going on right alongside the characters. The evolution of details and shifting perspectives makes for a real page turner.
I can see the comparisons to Room and Gone Girl, but Dear Child really stands on its own merit. A strong mystery-suspense story.
Dear Child is told from the shifting perspectives of the injured woman, the girl, and the missing woman's father. I really appreciate how we're plopped right into the story, disoriented, confused, trying to piece together what exactly is going on right alongside the characters. The evolution of details and shifting perspectives makes for a real page turner.
I can see the comparisons to Room and Gone Girl, but Dear Child really stands on its own merit. A strong mystery-suspense story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual violence and Violence
Moderate: Death