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The Sister (2016)

par Louise Jensen

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'I did something terrible Grace. I hope you can forgive me ...' Grace hasn't been the same since the death of her best friend Charlie. She is haunted by Charlie's words the last time she saw her, and in a bid for answers, opens an old memory box of Charlie's. It soon becomes clear that there was a lot she didn't know about her best friend. When Grace starts a campaign to find Charlie's father, Anna, a girl claiming to be Charlie's sister steps forward. For Grace, finding Anna is like finding a new family and soon Anna has made herself very comfortable in Grace and boyfriend Dan's home. But something isn't right. Things disappear, Dan's acting strangely and Grace is sure that someone is following her. Is it all in Grace's mind? Or as she gets closer to discovering the truth about both Charlie and Anna, is Grace in terrible danger? "There was nothing she could have done to save Charlie ... Or was there?" A compelling, gripping psychological thriller perfect for fans of "The Girl on the Train, I Let You Go" and "The Girl With No Past."… (plus d'informations)
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A good enough thriller to keep you going. But way too much happens. It was like the author jam-packed every single element of what makes a thriller into this little one, so it gets tedious. More like a telenovela. Good enough if you want a quick and easy read. ( )
  Joannerdrgs | Sep 22, 2022 |
This is cobbled together from two reviews: the first 2017 one and the second 2021 one. Might be a bit disjointed.

Star and a half. This wasn't nearly as much fun on second read. It quickly grew boring and increasingly implausible until it was just absurd, those last fifty pages of the book. Some of the sentences were structured wonderfully. The prose often veered into purple. The heroine was increasingly spineless and aggravating. The blurb says Charlie did something terrible, but this is all about Anna. False advertising. The author set the heroine up into fatal-attraction like circumstances beat-for-beat, but still made it so she never faced any real harm and was conveniently still pretty. I was relieved when I finally finished this.

The characters are absolutely insufferable, all of their personality qualities and especially flaws are taken to unbelievable extremes, and none of them have ever heard of a boundary in their -life.- It made the fatal attraction element--odd or misplaced, somehow (again, this coming from someone who loves and critiques plots like this). If any of the characters were anything besides the two extremes of utterly spineless and violently unhinged, I wouldn't have shouted at the book so much. The best part of the book was the protagonist's relationship with her grandparents. It warmed my heart and calmed me down. I cheered for the grandparents the whole way through. -They- were wonderful. I found Charlie herself realistic, as well as the depictions of her friendship with the main character. Everyone else was overdone, unneeded or bland. I just realized my dislike of everyone except the grandparents and Charlie is so strong, that I have forgotten everyone's names. ( )
  iszevthere | Jul 26, 2022 |
The Sister is one of those books that, despite being good I also want to slap some sense into some of the characters. Let's start with Grace, she's been in a funk since her best friend Charlie died. And, then she suddenly discovers that Charlie had a sister called Anna. But, at the same time, everything in her life starts to go wrong. It was kind of frustrating to read about how Grace life starts to fall apart and she still doesn't seem to grasp that the person most likely behind it all is living with her and Dan. I mean even Dan doesn't like Anna, actually, he is quite hostile towards her. And, one wonders why Grace boyfriend seems to have a grudge against Anna? There comes a moment when I want to slap Dan to towards the end. Then, we have person number three that I want to slap, Lexie, Charlie's mother. But, despite my hostility towards these three characters is the book very good and thrilling to read.

I did suspect the ending, something Charlie said in the beginning of the book, made the little gray cells work harder, so I was not surprised, rather more pleased that my suspicion turned out to be right.

I seem to be a bit harsh when it comes to this book. But, I did find it engrossing to read, sure the characters made me wanna scream now and then, but nevertheless, the book was pretty good. There isn't really a-who-is-behind-it-all-kind of a book, more why-is-the-person-doing-this kind of book. The ending was satisfying and I'm looking forward to reading more from Louise Jensen.

I want to thank Bookouture for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review! ( )
  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
Before anyone judges me, I did not know that was the full title of the book I bought because I just went by the Goodreads Paperback Edition. If I had, I would have skipped over this book though the summary did interest me.

So here's the main problem. It took way too long for some things to be explained in this book. The sentence structures were choppy as anything and the main character was not that smart. All other characters are not very developed and the twist part of the book I called when I was around 40 percent. Because everything pointed to this person and you must have never read a book before if you didn't get what was happening.

The main character Grace is still reeling from the death of her childhood best friend Charlie. Grace "feels" things a lot so she has taken to drinking and drugging herself because her life has no meaning without Charlie. Though Grace has a great job, a wonderful boyfriend named Dan, and a great relationship with her grandparents, only Charlie is what matters.

I really couldn't get a handle on Grace. Certain characters saw her as a strong person and I wasn't seeing it at all. The whole book shows a person who is not handling her grief at all, and was also scared to be abandoned by anyone, and obsessed with her best friend.

The secondary characters were so underdeveloped. It took me a really long time to put together the Dan that Grace was in a relationship with, as the Dan she met on her first day of school who was a jerk. And once you figure that out, the book doesn't work when we go back to "Then" chapters that has teenage Grace wanting to be with Dan. You know that she will be with him.

The character of Charlie read like a manic pixie girl. I got absolutely no sense of who she was at all in this story besides a character Grace was obsessed with.

Other people such as Grace's grandparents, Charlie's mother, etc. were also underdeveloped. People did things that no one else in the world ever would have for no real reason at all except to make sure that this book had a "twist" as far as I can see.

The writing was not good. The sentences hung together painfully.

"A grey ball of fluff is nestled on the stool of the piano that Dad taught me to play, hoisting me onto the leather stool virtually as soon as I could sit unaided."

"Afterwards, we snuggled in the multicolored throws that adorned the back of the sofa, and munched on Hawaiian pizza. I'd told Dan to order a pepperoni--he's never understood fruit on savory food but he knew I loved the sweet and salty combination."

"A wave of tiredness washes over me. Alcohol and emotion collaborate, forcing my eyes shut; I rub them, trying to dispel the past."


Also the book chapters kept switching between a "Then" and "Now". Frankly it would have made better sense to not do this since it took way too long for certain parts of the story to unfold. I think it may have been around 70 percent before we found out what happened to Grace's father. The flow was terrible from beginning to end. The book jerked to random stops and fits until the end.

The ending of the book was much too rushed and I thought once again didn't make a lot of sense. ( )
  ObsidianBlue | Jul 1, 2020 |
I couldn't resist delving straight into this book after I saw the cover of a striking pink envelope against a black background. There's just something so very dark and mysterious about it and the dark, mysterious theme continues inside the book. With alternating 'then' and 'now' chapters it's a very quick read as you simply can't put it down!

Charlie and Grace are best friends at school and they decide to bury a memory box and make a promise that the pair of them will open it together when they are older. When Charlie passes away suddenly, the promise is broken as Grace is left to open the memory box on her own. What will Grace find inside the box? With Charlie's unstable Mum, Lexie, blaming Grace for her death I was eager to find out what on earth could have happened but that's only half the story.

As Grace struggles to cope after Charlie's death she, and her partner, Dan, set up a campaign to find Charlie's father. Surprisingly quickly, Grace finds Anna who claims to be Charlie's sister. Of course I was naturally suspicious of Anna - she may look like Charlie but she seems to have a hidden agenda. As Anna steps up her game with Grace I wouldn't have been surprised to find a bunny boiling on the stove. Who is she? What does she want? These questions and more kept the pages turning late into the night.

There's so much going on in this book that my eyes were racing down the pages so I could unearth the whole story as quickly as possible. There are twists and turns that had me guessing right up to the very end and I had tears in my eyes as I relived Charlie's last moments.

The Sister is an exceptional debut; just when I thought I had something worked out another twist popped up to shout 'aha you're wrong'. It's an addictive page-turner that begs time and again for just one more chapter until the whole book has been devoured and thoroughly enjoyed.

I received this ebook from the publisher, Bookouture, via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. ( )
  Michelle.Ryles | Mar 9, 2020 |
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'I did something terrible Grace. I hope you can forgive me ...' Grace hasn't been the same since the death of her best friend Charlie. She is haunted by Charlie's words the last time she saw her, and in a bid for answers, opens an old memory box of Charlie's. It soon becomes clear that there was a lot she didn't know about her best friend. When Grace starts a campaign to find Charlie's father, Anna, a girl claiming to be Charlie's sister steps forward. For Grace, finding Anna is like finding a new family and soon Anna has made herself very comfortable in Grace and boyfriend Dan's home. But something isn't right. Things disappear, Dan's acting strangely and Grace is sure that someone is following her. Is it all in Grace's mind? Or as she gets closer to discovering the truth about both Charlie and Anna, is Grace in terrible danger? "There was nothing she could have done to save Charlie ... Or was there?" A compelling, gripping psychological thriller perfect for fans of "The Girl on the Train, I Let You Go" and "The Girl With No Past."

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