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THE GODCHILD
Miranda Rijks
260 Pages
Inkubator Books
March 31, 2024
It is very rarely that I give five stars to a suspense novel. Most of the time they are too predictable. Most of the time they lack sufficient character development. I wavered back and forth between 4.5 and 5 stars for this because there were moments when I said “Really?” or “Why?” However, I had too much fun reading this. Had I started reading this book earlier in the day, it would have been a one day read. In this suspense novel, a woman who works at a posh private school and lives with her family nearby have a young woman arrive on their doorstep who say she is the daughter of the mother’s friend. The woman had been made the girl’s godparent. The girl is not what she seems and the family is also not what it seems, with secrets of its own. The story is full of twists and kept me guessing until the end and I admired the author’s ability to have me turning pages late into the night and first thing the next morning as I traveled to work. I had to continue reading because I NEEDED to know what happened. I also like the different perspectives afforded by switching narrators every chapter, telling the reader who was thinking and when (then or now). It drives me crazy when authors do not do that because having to figure out who is speaking and when is just more work than I want to do. Kudos to this author for not doing that. I will definitely be checking out more of this author’s work on Kindle Unlimited. Thanks to NetGalley and Inkubator Books for providing me with the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review and for allowing me to discover this author.
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