The Look-Alike by Erica Spindler
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
**2.5-stars rounded up**
Ten years ago, Sienna Scott, stumbled across a murdered girl in the snow. Sienna was leaving the library and she recognized the girl as one of her classmates.
Understandably traumatized by this event, Sienna has a hard time forgetting the incident.
In fact, she has thought about it so much, she thinks she was the actual target that night, not the poor dead girl.
This coupled with some family issues, leads to Sienna getting shipped off to live with her Grandmother in London, where she becomes a professional chef.
Now upon returning to Tranquility Bluffs, a decade later, Sienna immediately begins to fixate again on the murder. They never caught the real killer after all. He could still be out there and still be after her.
Sienna’s mentally unstable mother is a huge part of this narrative. Her delusional disorder makes it close to impossible for her to be around Sienna, as Sienna’s safety is one of her biggest triggers.
I have to be honest and say, this whole dynamic made me super uncomfortable. Something about it just did not work for me.
I would actually say, overall, the author’s writing didn’t work for me. There were entire aspects to the plot that drove me crazy. Number one being the relationship with the neighbor.
There were a lot of red herrings and plot twists. At times, I felt myself sort of getting into it. Then something wonky would come up and it would kick me right out of the story again.
I would put this in a middling to average category for Adult Thrillers. Although with this being said, there is a reader for every book and just because this didn’t work for me personally, doesn’t mean you won’t love it!
If the premise sounds interesting to you, give it a try. Don’t let me sway you!
Thank you so much to the publisher, Macmillan, for providing me with a copy of this to read and review.
Even though this one wasn’t necessarily for me, I still appreciate the opportunity so much!