Caitlin Sommers has just arrived home, seven months after she disappeared without a trace. As she walks through the door, covered in blood and clutching the keys to an unfamiliar car, her husband, Josh, doesn’t know whether to believe his eyes or not. Surprisingly, despite how the police and media have united to paint Josh as a murderer in their small community, instead of taking her to the police or a hospital, Josh decides to accompany her on a strange mission to try to retrace her footsteps over the past seven months, despite her apparent amnesia. Their search finds them uniting with Bix, a mysterious man with some shady friends, and racing against time as the cops begin searching for Caitlin for her connection to a crime she cannot remember.

The Prettiest One was definitely mysterious and unpredictable. For the most part, I enjoyed the personalities of the characters, though I found Caitlin to be the weakest of them all. While the book was entertaining, I generally found myself having to suspend my disbelief far too often for me to really enjoy myself. I like thrillers that I can believe, and amnesia always feels like the easy way out when it comes to a story.

That being said, I enjoyed my read. It was fast-paced and intriguing, and I genuinely felt surprised by the ending. While there a lot of parts of the plot I found myself simply not able to reasonably believe, if you’re the kind of person who can put those feelings aside and simply be entertained, this would probably be a very worthy read for you.