I was drawn to the premise of this one, it was intriguing to me. 👇🏻

Synopsis: Staying is dangerous. Leaving could be worse.

Leah and McKenna have never met, though they have parallel lives.

They don’t—ever—find themselves in the same train carriage or meet accidentally at the gym or the coffee shop. They don’t—ever—discuss their problems and find common ground. They don’t—ever—acknowledge to each other that although their lives have all the trappings of success, wealth and happiness, they are, in fact, trapped.

Because Leah understands that what’s inside a home can be more dangerous than what’s outside. Driving past McKenna’s house one night, she sees what she knows only too well herself from her own marriage: McKenna’s “perfect” husband is not what he seems. She decides to keep an eye out for McKenna, until one night, she intervenes.

Leah and McKenna have never met. But they will. 

So two women both in dangerous situations so there are major triggers for domestic violence here. I emphasized with Leah and McKenna even though parts of their situation required the suspension of disbelief. That part didn’t really bother me as I was invested in their personal stories but I did have some other issues. Parts of it felt repetitive, there were scenes with each women separately but both would be internally thinking in very similar ways so that got a little boring. Then a detective is introduced about halfway in and his chapters obviously gave it a police procedural feeling, not bad just unexpected for me. As he was working cases he tended to repeat himself quite a bit so those two aspects made the book feel a little too repetitive for me. I can’t say I’m upset I read this though, there was something compelling here and the author is a solid writer, just a few minor issues for me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Thanks to the tagged partners for my copy.