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A review by krystibarrak
When She Was Me by Marlee Bush

4.0

Cassie and Lenora are inseparable, literally. They’ve never been without each other as twin sisters. Now they live in a remote cabin in Tennessee away from prying eyes, crime junkies and nosy neighbors who may be desperate to get a chance to talk to the girls after THAT night so many years ago. Until a teenage girl goes missing and the memories start causing a rift between the sisters. Each suspecting the other of hiding something. Now odd things are happening to them and they HAVE to figure out what happened to that girl, it just might be the only way they survive.

As a debut novel this book is honestly so impressive! It’s so well written and will give you those heart pounding moments all thriller readers love. Told in a dual perspective between the sisters with flashbacks from the past, it will genuinely leave you guessing just who knows what until the very end. With that said, there’s a lot of build up and talk of the past that you don’t get answers to until maybe the last 10% of the book and for me that’s always frustrating. I don’t need the plot twist until that point but you can only refer to something so many times without revealing it to the reader for SO long before it gets frustrating but that could just be a personal preference. I definitely would’ve read this faster if I wasn’t in the middle of a giant reading rut.