Synopsis – The Daughter
I won’t let my four-year-old daughter Skylar go through what I had to. I won’t let my father do to her what he did to me and my sister.
I know how to play the good daughter. The perfect mother. The wife who smiles on cue.
But you don’t grow up in a house like mine without learning how to survive—how to keep secrets buried so deep they almost stop hurting.
Almost.
Last night I finally did something unforgivable. I tried to kill my father.
Only . . . my mom picked up the wrong glass.
Now she’s lying in a hospital bed, unconscious. And I’m the dutiful daughter by her side, pretending to be shocked . . .
Author Bio
Alesha Dykema is a thirty-something-year-old author of thriller novels.
She lives in the dreadful Midwest with her strange husband, head-banging toddler son, a neurotic dog, and warden cat.
Besides writing, Alesha loves to read (like every other author in the world). Alesha is also a health and fitness junkie and a dabbler in furniture refinishing. She is extremely anti-social and wishes she lived off-grid in the middle of the woods, but her husband hates good ideas and happiness and won’t allow this to happen.
Even though she’s pretty anti-social, she still likes to make new friends and have casual chats about people’s childhood traumas.
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My Review
The Daughter by Alesha Dykema
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Entertaining
3.5 stars
This book is very entertaining. The writing style makes it easy to keep going so that I ended up reading this all in one go.
The first chapter immediately pulled me in. I loved the premise. The FMC seemed to miss some blatantly obvious signs which seemed out of character for someone so anxious. I did guess some of the twists pretty early on though that didn’t impact my enjoyment of the book.
The first half of the book was better to me than the second half where I felt it lost a bit of the tension. However, the story tied up nicely.
Overall, this was a light but very binge worthy thriller that I enjoyed.
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