Keep your family close, and your secrets closer…
To the outside world, the Goodlights are perfect.
Julia is a lawyer, Paul a stay-at-home dad who has dedicated his life to helping their daughter Chrissie achieve her dreams as a talented violinist.
But on the night of a prestigious music competition, which has the power to change everything for Chrissie and her family, Chrissie goes missing.
She puts on the performance of a lifetime, then completely disappears. Suddenly every single crack, every single secret that the family is hiding risks being exposed.
I'd like to thank Alliya at HQ for my copy of I'll Never Tell to review.
I'll Never Tell features Paul, a stay-at-home dad, Julia, a successful lawyer, and their teenage daughter Chrissie who is a musical prodigy. From the outset it's clear that nothing is as it seems and there are so many secrets lurking beneath the surface. When Chrissie mysteriously disappears during a prestigious competition, so many questions are raised. Did she disappear of her own free will or is something more sinister at play?
I have to confess it took me a little while to get into the format of this book with the timelines jumping back and forth from specific dates in the past then back to the present day. But with each snippet of information uncovered we can begin to put together the pieces as to what exactly is going on within this dysfunctional family and see that this picture-perfect family is anything but. Bit by bit snippets of information are drip fed to enable us to get a feel for these flawed characters and their relationships, especially with Julia's controlling parents who seemed to have an unnatural interest in the family, as well as a mysterious older gentleman, that enable us to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
As to Chrissie's disappearance, I had my theories as to what was going on. Chrissie was under so much pressure with the expectation of her doing well in her music auditions but she's also dealing with her own issues that she's keeping hidden from her parents. It's no wonder that it took her disappearance to bring everything to a head and force them to take a look at their lives and the impact that their actions have had on one another.
I'll Never Tell features some serious themes that were at the heart of the family's issues. Overall I found this read to be very much a slow burner as it didn't really get going for me until the final third when the pace really amped up although saying that the conclusion when it came seemed a little unresolved.
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