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Cross Her Heart

By Sarah Pinborough
Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough digital book - Fable

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From the author of Behind Her Eyes, now a Netflix Original Series hit

"Sarah Pinborough is about to become your new obsession." —Harlan Coben

Lisa is living a lie and everyone is about to find out.

Lisa lives for her daughter Ava, her job and her best friend Marilyn.

But when a handsome client shows an interest in her, Lisa starts daydreaming about sharing her life with him, too. Maybe she’s ready now. Maybe she can trust again. Maybe it's time to let her terrifying secret past go.

But when her daughter rescues a boy from drowning and their pictures are all over the news for everyone to see, Lisa's world explodes.

As she finds everything she has built threatened, and not knowing who she can trust, it's up to Lisa to face her past in order to save what she holds dear.

But someone has been pulling all their strings. And that someone is determined that both Lisa and Ava must suffer.

Because long ago Lisa broke a promise. And some promises aren't meant to be broken.

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3.5
““Cross Her Heart” by Sarah Pinborough was a good read. If you like thrillers with uncomfortable topics, and a twist, give it a read! I enjoyed the different character perspectives, the topic, and the conclusion of the story. Although I enjoyed it, I only gave it three stars. The writing was confusing at times, such as the “After” timeline. Because “After,” meant after her brother died and she got out of prison, but that wasn’t clearly explained. It left me wondering where I was in the timeline and it took some reading to figure out. I also found Jodie being Katie very unrealistic, nobody knew that this swimmer who portrayed herself to be in her early twenties was actually almost forty? I find that to be an unrealistic twist that was added for shock value. The next issue I had was the “she had sex one time and is now pregnant,” unnecessary to the plot, it does happen, but it felt forced so that the ending could be a tribute to the mothers dead baby brother, but we already had her redemption arc and adding teen pregnancy just didn’t make sense. The last issue I had was the beginning of the novel, the author tries to make you believe it’s the father doing everything for revenge, but really, he is such a minor character compared to everyone else. It may be my own pet peeve, but shining so much spotlight on a part of the story that has little meaning to the actual plot just to trip up the readers, when there were already so many twist, felt completely unnecessary. With all of that in mind, I did enjoy it and couldn’t put it down till I knew for sure who was behind it all.”
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