Publisher: Penguin Books
Blurb: [Goodreads]
If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened.
Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode.
Across decades, the fallout leaves a wake of destruction behind Ruby in Dublin and Erin in Boston.
Not that Ruby wants to think about the past.
But it can’t stay a secret forever.
The book centers around two sisters Ruby and Erin. Ruby has always felt she lived life in Erin's shadow, never as pretty, clever or interesting as her. Then something life changing happens to them and their family which divides them and send their lives on a ricochet path for the rest of their days.
Liz Nugent's characters are the most interesting characters to ever be reading from the perspective of. I have never read anything like it. Her way of crafting a story and weaving each characters perspectives through it is like no one else. The most immersive story-reading experience you could experience.
It is hard to say you liked a character when reading one of Liz Nugent's books as they are all so flawed or crazy you don't like them - but you can understand why they are doing what they are doing. I think there is sometimes too much reliance on "likeability" of characters when really I love to read about someone who is so unlike me in every way, so destructive and messy that I can really be shocked about and that is how I felt reading this book. There are times when you are reading from the main characters perspective, and because we are in their mind you begin to feel sorry for them - then almost as soon as that emotion has landed they do something so incredibly despicable / selfish / manipulative it is ripped away. Over and over again.
There was no time to put this book down as I just wanted to keep reading, take in all of the information and twists until the bitter conclusion. I can't say too much about the storyline as I don't want to spoil anything but just know it is incredibly difficult and uncomfortable in places, it doesn't sugar coat anything, so please check trigger warning before reading.
At times I felt it was a little long in some scenes, but overall another masterful storytelling from who I believe to be the queen of thrillers. Not my top tier favourite of Liz Nugents, that will always go to Strange Sally Diamond, but definitely up there. I will read anything Liz writes from now and into the future.
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