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While You Slept by R.J. Parker
1.0

I really liked the concept of this one! It started off really well, Lily and Maisie waking up in their house. Except, they soon discovered it wasn’t their house.

Where were they? How did they get there? Who put them there? Why?

The first half of the book was really enticing and I was eagerly anticipating answers to all these questions.
It was fast paced, it was a page-turner and left me wanting more.

However, the second half just didn’t execute that. The ending, while I didn’t guess it, just didn’t make sense. It felt like I was reading a different book and left so many open questions from plot holes.

1. How Ewan ended up there didn’t really seem to add up?
2. The Sam storyline, why was it necessary?
3. If we’re going to drop the random bomb shell of everything leading back to her father, it needed more depth.

I kept flicking and as the % slowly got closer to 100, I realised I wasn’t going to get the answers I needed. Then everything just wrapped up in one tiny chapter.

I started loving it and had really high hopes but I just didn’t.

Thank you One More Chapter (Harper Collins UK) and NetGalley for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.