3.5 stars.

Twins,deception and cults. Though this was billed as a psychological thriller, I found it read much more like a character driven drama with a few plot twists thrown in.

Jude and Kat, mirror twins basically only have each other after a traumatic childhood and an accident that left Kat with no memory of her life before. As Kat tries to find herself, she finds out that things may not what they seem.

There were some very slow parts in the book, and the middle particularly lagged, but by the end it all came together.

Thanks NetGalley for this opportunity to read and review!

Adding another to my “religious trauma metaphor” list with this one—when rebuilding your life out of a cult, it’s impossible to just “start fresh” or with a blank slate, as much as some want you to believe. Your previous life affects and informs every part of you—even if you don’t remember it.

Loved this book and also loved that the twists I was positive I “saw” coming didn’t come to fruition.

This appropriately stressed me out for a thriller - was interested to find out the ending but as generally not a fan of the genre this one wasn't for me

Mirror twins, cults, memory loss, murder mystery, repressed trauma, galore!

I really appreciated all of the pieces of this book. I did, however, find the pacing a bit slow and I struggled with returning the story. The last 20% of the book picked up pace and became more engaging. I think this author is only going to continue to improve and I’m very eager to continue following her work.



Thank you to Netgalley + Henry Holt & Co for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Where You End is an interesting read. The intrigue of learning the details of Kat and Jude’s past kept me reading, however, I wasn’t as thrilled by this book as I was hoping I would be when I saw this delightfully creepy cover. It was a slow burn and I felt the mystery was muddled by excess that did nothing to enhance the twist of the ending.

Dragged and dragged. Did not finish. Based on other reviews, sounds like it should’ve been a novella or a movie. Not a full length book.

Being a twin myself, you’d think I’d read more books about people like myself but I haven’t. I was intrigued by the amnesia trope of it, with Kat only remembering her sister’s face and name. Ultimately, the book fell a bit flat in my opinion. The jumping back and forth between the POV and timelines was too much for me and I was just confused about certain things. I wish they had gone into more detail on the cult the girls were in as well.

Thanks as always to NetGalley for the ARC.

The start of this book was paced quite slowly, causing you to have to inch page by page to get to the real meat of this meal. While it was important that there was a set up for Kat’s amnesia and the way she slowly began to piece her life back together, I did feel myself just wanting to know what had actually happened.

The last two thirds of this book, however, are much better and more quickly paced. We get a set up for a cult in the first part, and a more in depth look into how badly the girls were indoctrinated into it later on. We follow Kat & Jude, mirror twins who share everything- except for when Kat loses everything in a terrible accident. As Kat tries to figure out who she truly is, she begins to see how things don’t quite add up, and alongside this we get flashbacks from Jude’s point of view.

I did enjoy this book! While there were some graphic scenes they weren’t too bad, and there was no weird sexy scene in the middle of it (and spicy scenes in thrillers tend to ruin them for me rather quickly.)