Don't You Cry.

- Mary Kubica.

"It's dark by the time I leave the apartment of Nicholas Keller. It's darker than dark. It's pitch-black, a starless November night, the sky an inky black." - Taken directly from the book.

Let me start off by saying that according to the blurbs on this book, this story was "rightfully" compared to the likes of, Single White Female and Gone Girl. The story was good, the twists unsuspecting, the suspense was done well, but I wouldn't compare it to either of the two pieces mentioned above. Though, I can certainly see where the author got her inspiration from.

This story is told from two separate perspectives, forcing us (the readers) to piece together what we can from the hints and clues discovered (or ignored, or grossly overexaggerated) by the two protagonists; Quinn, a young woman who works at a job she hates, and an unreliable roommate to the now missing Esther Vaughan, as well as Alex, a kid in a dead end town, working a dead end job, who's only form of entertainment is gawking at the town's newest drifter.

If I'm being brutally honest, as someone who enjoys reading in first person narrative, I'm disheartened to admit that Kubica could have done a much better job. Instead of using this as a tool to grant the readers a better insight into the characters minds and allow for us to relate better to them on a deeper, more emotional level, the experience was slightly stilted and awkward due to the switch in perspectives and forced use of descriptive/fake deep/poetic wording.

That being said, the mystery of EV versus Esther Vaughan was most definitely an interesting one. The notion that these two strangers are connected by this one woman that neither of them truly know, yet once thought that they did so well, was what kept me reading until the very end despite the hiccups along the way. How Kubica managed to seamlessly tie together these two stories that although obviously connected in some way, still left the readers guessing as to what exactly was going on leading up to the final ten or so pages, rightfully deserves applaud.

All in all, this was a good read, the story was interesting if not drawn out and slightly annoying in parts. I would most definitly recommend this as a light summer read, but don't expect it to get your heaert racing or palms sweaty. In the end though, this is only my opinion, and so I encourage you all to form your own, and keep warm & read.

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