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200-word review of Don’t Look for Me by Wendy Walker

My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Goodreads rating: 4.32 with 1,260 ratings (as of 9/12/2020)

One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life.

She doesn’t want to be found.

Or at least, that’s the story.

The car abandoned miles from home.

The note found at a nearby hotel.

The shattered family that couldn’t be put back together.

They called it a “walk away.”

It happens all the time.

Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and start over.

But is that what really happened to Molly Clarke? …Synopsis from Goodreads

200 Word Review

I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book so I could give an honest review. The opinions are entirely my own, and any quotes are taken from the ARC and may be different in the final published copy.

Although I have Wendy Walker’s novels on my “to-read list,” I have not had the pleasure of reading any until now. Why have I waited so long to read any of her work?

I could not put down her latest novel, Don’t Look for Me. Told from two points of view, Molly Harper and her daughter Nic, we discover a family broken by tragedy, an accident from years ago. Molly is wracked with guilt and struggling to keep her family together. Nic, broken by guilt and anger, lashes out at Molly. Later Molly’s car is found abandoned on the side of the road. The police think she walked away from her life. Nic refuses to believe her mom would leave them when they are all still recovering from tragedy. If she did not just walk away, then what happened to Molly?

Walker’s brilliant writing leaves you unable to put the book down. She creates hard-to-forget characters. Often when an author includes numerous characters, they are flat. Walker’s are fully formed, and her writing style leads you to suspect many outcomes.

I am sorry I waited so long to read Walker, but I am going to make up for time lost.

This review was published on Philomathinphila.com, Smashbomb, Goodreads, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble on 9/15/20. When available, the review will be published on Scribd.com and, using Overdrive, will be rated in 9 libraries.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Print Length: 352 pages
ISBN: 9781250198709
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Publication Date: September 15, 2020

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Born and raised in Philadelphia. Enjoys reading, movies, theater, and traveling.

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