SIster Dear

 In this blog post, I reviewed Hannah Mary McKinnon's Sister Dear. This domestic suspense novel would make you skin crawl with goosebumps and the hairs stand at the back of your neck. All Eleanor Hardwicke every wanted was a loving family who appreciated her. But they treated her like garbage since she wasn't pretty enough to deserve their love.  But before her father died from cancer, she learned a shocking truth she shouldn't have heard from her parents: she was born from an affair and was kept a secret. This set her on edge to seek her real father out. But he wanted nothing to do with her and had sent her mother hush money to kept it a secret. So she sent out in a mission to know her half-sister Victoria and to get into her world by befriending her and learning her family's darkest secrets. The only person she told was her neighbor Lewis who had a thing for her. It all started for her from disclosing her identity and "accidentally" stealing Victoria's wedding ring when she'd gotten chummier with her and closer to Lewis. In fears of being found out, she kept up with the charade until she'd been discovered and caught into her lies when she'd lost everything she loved and worked hard for in a twisted blink of an eye with a shocking ending.

 This domestic suspense had me at the edge of the seat and piqued my interest right from the beginning. It was dark and twisted as it would come in this domestic thriller. I cared for Eleanor and how everyone mistreated her, making her feeling unwanted and unloved, even by the way she looked, like a ghost. I did care for how she would handle this situation  when she should've quit while she a head and took a chance.  But her own house of cards had toppled in an epic collapse when everything was yanked from her in a puff of smoke. I liked the intricate locations in the Portland area from Eleanor's home to Victoria's posh apartment and everywhere in between. The theme of the story is that secrets and lies have a way of coming out into the open before you're found out.

If you love spine-tingling domestic suspense novels with twisted non-stop action, plenty of heart-racing drama, and tons of goose-bumping suspense, Sister Dear is right up your alley.