Fractured by Catherine McKenzie
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Blurb:
Julie
Prentice and her family move across the country to the idyllic Mount
Adams district of Cincinnati, hoping to evade the stalker who’s been
terrorizing them ever since the publication of her bestselling novel, The Murder Game.
Since Julie doesn’t know anyone in her new town, when she meets her
neighbor John Dunbar, their instant connection brings measured hope for a
new beginning. But she never imagines that a simple, benign
conversation with him could set her life spinning so far off course.
After a series of misunderstandings, Julie and her family become the target of increasingly unsettling harassment. Has Julie’s stalker found her, or are her neighbors out to get her, too? As tension in the neighborhood rises, new friends turn into enemies, and the results are deadly.
Review by Brittany:
I requested this book off of Netgalley because I loved the cover and the blurb. I'm still on my suspense novel kick, so this one sounded like it would fit the bill.
I loved the way the story bounced from present time to months past. This really added to the mystery part of the novel. The present day parts are told from John's perspective, and the reader becomes aware that there is some kind of court case that he and his family are involved in. As the story develops, it's revealed that there was an accident in which someone was killed, but we don't know who the victim was.
In the parts that relay the past, the reader becomes embroiled in the drama of living in Mount Adams and the ways in which small misunderstandings can build up to ruin someone's life. Julie and John become easy friends, running together each day as they both work from home. This, of course, causes some trouble among the neighborhood - a man and a woman can't just be platonic friends. As the relationship develops, it becomes clear that they do struggle to maintain a certain level of platonic friendship.
Couple the nosiness of Julie's neighbors with her own paranoia at what had happened to cause her to move, and the buildup of this story leaves you flipping pages and dying to figure out what happened. The end of the book is definitely a surprise, and it left me feeling satisfied with the climax but so sad for everyone involved. This book was well-paced and a fantastic suspense, with believable characters who I could sympathize with.
Notable quotes:
Everyone's life has its complications. Sometimes you get to choose them, and sometimes they're thrust upon you.
We all wear masks. The challenge is keeping them in place.
It's just that sometimes you can't shake a dream. It clings to you like film.
I felt better having him next to me, which felt like something I needed to remind myself.
"Everyone has their stuff. Things they'll do that you find annoying or don't understand. But if you love someone, or think you might, then you decide what's the most important thing. Them in your life, or not."
Memory isn't a provable thing. We see what we want, hear what pleases us, and remember what grieves us. That is the human condition.
Just because I felt something didn't mean the person who had caused the feeling had done anything wrong.
After a series of misunderstandings, Julie and her family become the target of increasingly unsettling harassment. Has Julie’s stalker found her, or are her neighbors out to get her, too? As tension in the neighborhood rises, new friends turn into enemies, and the results are deadly.
Review by Brittany:
I requested this book off of Netgalley because I loved the cover and the blurb. I'm still on my suspense novel kick, so this one sounded like it would fit the bill.
I loved the way the story bounced from present time to months past. This really added to the mystery part of the novel. The present day parts are told from John's perspective, and the reader becomes aware that there is some kind of court case that he and his family are involved in. As the story develops, it's revealed that there was an accident in which someone was killed, but we don't know who the victim was.
In the parts that relay the past, the reader becomes embroiled in the drama of living in Mount Adams and the ways in which small misunderstandings can build up to ruin someone's life. Julie and John become easy friends, running together each day as they both work from home. This, of course, causes some trouble among the neighborhood - a man and a woman can't just be platonic friends. As the relationship develops, it becomes clear that they do struggle to maintain a certain level of platonic friendship.
Couple the nosiness of Julie's neighbors with her own paranoia at what had happened to cause her to move, and the buildup of this story leaves you flipping pages and dying to figure out what happened. The end of the book is definitely a surprise, and it left me feeling satisfied with the climax but so sad for everyone involved. This book was well-paced and a fantastic suspense, with believable characters who I could sympathize with.
Notable quotes:
Everyone's life has its complications. Sometimes you get to choose them, and sometimes they're thrust upon you.
We all wear masks. The challenge is keeping them in place.
It's just that sometimes you can't shake a dream. It clings to you like film.
I felt better having him next to me, which felt like something I needed to remind myself.
"Everyone has their stuff. Things they'll do that you find annoying or don't understand. But if you love someone, or think you might, then you decide what's the most important thing. Them in your life, or not."
Memory isn't a provable thing. We see what we want, hear what pleases us, and remember what grieves us. That is the human condition.
Just because I felt something didn't mean the person who had caused the feeling had done anything wrong.
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