This book kept me interested. It started off intriguing, but the main story is based around Evie aka Kate, being controlled by Jim in a house in NZ they’ve fled to from Melbourne after Kate did something horrendous.
We follow Kate as she tries to remember in the ‘after’ chapters, and we read what happens leading up to it in the ‘before’ chapters.
It does get a little monotonous, we spend the whole book inside a house with Evie/Kate escaping every now and then.
The big surprise was that ‘Jim’ her ‘uncle’ was actually her dad who was keeping her captive.
All along we thought it was willow’s dad but it was her dad. Not sure which storyline would of been better.
It was sad to learn about the history of Kate’s mum, and it makes sense why her dad needed her to take the meds.
In the end we find out Thom (kates ex boyfriend) leaked a sex tape of them and then leaked she was dating her best friends dad, in a drunken rage she stole her dads car and went to meet Thom. With Kate’s dad admitting to the murder and going to jail, we are to believe he did it in the name of his daughter and the whole time he was protecting her, but then we realise it was Kate who killed Thom and he took the blame.
It sounds like a good ending but the book wasn’t captivating enough to really do the storyline justice.