**Disclaimer: I have received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.**
Leah Mills lives a life of a fugitive – kept on the run by one terrible day from her past. It is a lonely life, without a social life or friends until – longing for a connection – she meets Julian. For the first time she dares to believe she can live a normal life. Then, on the fourteenth anniversary of that day, she receives a card. Someone knows the truth about what happened. Someone who won’t stop until they've destroyed the life Leah has created.
As a fan of psychological thrillers, I was immediately drawn to the official blurb and the cover of this book. Having not read anything by Kathryn Croft before (how could this possibly be?), it was therefore with high hopes and great anticipation that I started reading The Girl With No Past around midnight last Thursday. Alas, this proved to be a fatal mistake since it kept me up all night and cost me my beauty sleep!
I will get it out of the way immediately and tell you that this is one of the best thrillers I have read this year and it is fully deserving of my 5-star rating. Despite the late night exhaustion, I was captivated from start to finish (and what a finish!) by the excellent plot and writing. The narrative cleverly alternates between Leah's teenage years and the present, where she is in her early thirties, thereby slowly progressing towards the-day-when-something-bad-happened and building up tension chapter by chapter.
Once I had reached the-day-when-something-bad-happened and discovered what actually made Leah live such a reclusive life, I foolishly thought that there were no more surprises in store... that is until the shock ending which I did not see coming at all. For me, this was just the icing on a scrumptious cake!
I will get it out of the way immediately and tell you that this is one of the best thrillers I have read this year and it is fully deserving of my 5-star rating. Despite the late night exhaustion, I was captivated from start to finish (and what a finish!) by the excellent plot and writing. The narrative cleverly alternates between Leah's teenage years and the present, where she is in her early thirties, thereby slowly progressing towards the-day-when-something-bad-happened and building up tension chapter by chapter.
Once I had reached the-day-when-something-bad-happened and discovered what actually made Leah live such a reclusive life, I foolishly thought that there were no more surprises in store... that is until the shock ending which I did not see coming at all. For me, this was just the icing on a scrumptious cake!
The Bibliovore's verdict ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
I finished reading this book 24 hours ago and I am already experiencing the first withdrawal symptoms. This leaves me with no choice but to immediately buy Croft's other novels.
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