Again, I think it is an art to write about violence and psychologically traumatic experiences in a book without being gratuitous or graphic. Alice was really the only character I really felt a connection with in the book. She jumped into “love” mode with “Frank” (the amnesiac found on the beach) sooner than was realistic (in my opinion), but that happens so often in novels nowadays that I tend to just ignore it now. She was quirky, snarky, creative, and disorganized, but also in love with her children and her life. I loved how she interacted with her kids, her dogs, and her friends. She had some issues of her own, including making incredibly bad decisions throughout her life, but she owned every mistake she ever made and moved on. I figured everything would come together in the end, as it did, but it really felt like I was reading three different stories (1 past, 2 present) that had absolutely nothing to do with each other and were all interesting in their own right.
I think it is an art to describe a place well without getting overly wordy.
I could picture the beach, the sea, the houses, the shops. Locations in the book were well-described.I have several of her other books on my Want to Read List on Goodreads, and I was in the mood for a suspense/thriller story, so I decided to read I Found You.
I enjoyed that book but it didn’t blow me away. That was the first time I read anything by the author and I gave it a solid three stars. Last year I read Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell. Who is the man on the beach? Where is Lily’s missing husband? And what ever happened to the man who made such a lasting and disturbing impression on Gray? Something about him makes Gray uncomfortable-and it’s not just because he’s a protective older brother. The annual trip to Ridinghouse Bay is uneventful, until an enigmatic young man starts paying extra attention to Kirsty. Twenty-three years earlier, Gray and Kirsty Ross are teenagers on a summer holiday with their parents. Soon, she receives even worse news: according to the police, the man she married never even existed. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, newlywed Lily Monrose grows anxious when her husband fails to return home from work one night. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. In the windswept British seaside town of Ridinghouse Bay, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on a beach outside her house.
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