👩🏻Have you ever made a snap decision you regretted?🚘

Snap by Belinda Bauer is a captivating, emotional and gripping read about tragic loss, grief, snap decisions and their devastating, longterm impact.

The opening scene of this one grabbed hold of my heart and never let go. 11yr. old Jack Bright and his sisters Joy and Merry are sitting in their stifling, broken down car on the side of the road on a hot August afternoon. They are awaiting the return of their pregnant mother. She was last seen over an hour before, walking away on the shoulder of the road towards a payphone to get help. She told the children to stay in the car. She told them she would be right back. Unfortunately, none of that was true. Jack, Joy & Merry would never see their mother again after that fateful day.

Snap is told via various voices and storylines as we find ourselves thrown into Jack, Joy & Merry's life three years after the tragic loss of their mother. Life has been anything but kind or easy for these children in that time. This mama wanted to reach right in the book and rescue the Bright children! Jack, now age 14, was left with the care of his two little sisters after his grief stricken father went out for milk one day and never returned. How can 3 young children survive on their own? Jack resorts to doing whatever is necessary to keep his family together and away from social services. Jack's story was truly an emotional one filled with anger, grief and his overwhelming sense of responsibility for his siblings. He is a child forced to quickly become an adult. You can't help but fall for his character and root for him and his sisters to finally be okay.

Detective Reynolds & Marvel are investigating a string of unsolved burglaries involving a suspect they have named Goldilocks. Goldilocks breaks into homes, cooks himself meals, sleeps in children's beds, takes a bath, grabs a few possessions & healthy food and has evaded capture for over a year. The relationship between these 2 officers was entertaining, as they were very much polar opposites.

I won't give away much more about the story. It's best to let it unfold the way Baur intended. Snap was a slow, character driven mystery/thriller that really grabs hold of you. I was invested in these characters and wanted to see Jack find closure about his mom. This one was a deliberate, addictive and unputdownable read. I highly recommend it for mystery/thriller fans who enjoy a masterfully told story with empathic characters.

Go ahead and Snap this one up to read today! You won't be sorry.

Thank you Grove Atlantic and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review "Snap" and share my honest opinion.