By: Elin F. Styve
Many thanks to Hayling Book Storm for the gifted copy of this book!
This was a slightly different read for me, but enjoyable! Una is a child of infidelity. For about 8 years her father came around and spent time with her, but then he stopped. And she never stopped thinking about him and why he stopped coming to see her. Her father is the famous self-help expert MotivaTor. She watches his speeches online and desperately wants to reconnect. But her vision of him and their reconnection in her mind isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And things in his life aren’t exactly how she imagined them to be. Then she meets her half brother, Kalle, and things take a dark turn.
I was a little iffy when I first started the book, but then wow, it really hooked me. I felt so bad for Una. I am from a divorced family and do not have a relationship with my father. I was able to connect with Una on this level. The always wondering what things would be like if he was around, thinking about reconnecting etc… Her life is simple. She has her mom, her best friend, her dog, and her job. I felt her need to find the familial connection, and it made me yearn for her to find it.
Once things came to a head, I couldn’t stop turning the pages. I didn’t know the secret that Kalle was keeping (I did guess, but I guessed wrong), and I didn’t know how it was all going to end. And while the end is not an in your face ending where the author tells you exactly what happens, the author describes it enough that you know what is going on.
Be careful, because there are some triggers in this book, namely childhood sexual trauma.
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