Get Ready For A Fast-Moving Story
Description
From the Amazon bestselling author of What We Forgot to Bury comes a twisted psychological tale of a mother and daughter’s mind-bending descent into the truth.
From the outside looking in, Sibley Sawyer has a perfect life. As a successful attorney, she’s worked hard to get to the top of her game—but when her personal and professional lives implode, Sibley looks for a way to turn the page.
Unable to shake the tragic circumstances that caused her to flee her rural Midwestern hometown, Sibley wants nothing more than to reunite with her estranged mother, Deborah, and bury their past tensions.
But as she reenters the life she left behind, she realizes her mother isn’t the same person she remembers, and she’s not the same daughter either.
As both women struggle to piece together a tangled web of deceit and lies, and the shocking circumstances that caused Sibley to leave in the first place, it becomes clear there are secrets rooted deeper than either mother or daughter could ever have imagined.
Can you really deceive your past and those around you?
Details
- Rating: ☆☆☆
- Title: The Imposter
- Author: Marin Montgomery
- Genre: Psychological, Suspense, Thriller
- Audience: Adult
- Length: 413 pages
- Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
- Release Date: March 9, 2021
My Thoughts
This is a story of estrangement, twists and turns, and preconceived notions. It kept me on my toes trying to figure out what the truth was. And I didn’t want to stop reading until my questions were answered. Marin Montgomery, author of What We Forgot to Bury, delivered a page-turning psychological book.
When Sibley Bradford, a lawyer, is forced by her law firm to get her drinking under control, they give her time off to enter a rehab program. Sibley acts like she is heading to the rehab program, but instead drives to her hometown to see if reconciling with her mother might not be the start to fixing her problems.
But what Sibley discovers in her hometown causes her to question everything. Including the reason she raced away in the first place. But with her drinking, and her mother Deborah’s apparent health problems, it becomes hard to know what is factual and what is fiction.
This fast-moving story is told in different chapters by both Deborah and Sibley. Each shares their memories and truths. And the whole time I kept wondering who was the most credible. Sibley wasn’t making any attempt to slow down on her alcohol consumption, and Deborah was mentally unstable.
Concerns
Though the characters almost worked for me, some of their decisions felt ridiculous. That, or they just existed in such dysfunctional families that they didn’t know how or care to make things better. No doubt this seems vague, but I don’t want to spoil anything.
Though I’ve said the booked moved quickly, I believe that to be so because I was searching for answers, which felt very slow in coming.
Conclusion
While I had no trouble being interested and wanting to know more, it did feel somewhat slow and unclear at times. And for me, the ending was pretty out there which didn’t do anything to bolster my feelings for the book as a whole..
However, Montgomery did a good job of bringing the setting in this story to life, and I could easily imagine what things looked like.
I think this is one of those books that you love or you just think it’s okay. If you haven’t read What We Forgot to Bury, Montgomery’s last book, I highly recommend it!
My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this ARC and the ability to freely post my opinion.
Rating
You may like it, many did according to reviews on Goodreads, so why not give it a try?
About the Author
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Marin Montgomery is the author of nine novels. Her next psychological thriller for Thomas & Mercer, The Imposter, will be released in March 2021.
Marin has always been a dreamer with an overactive imagination. Her father inspired her love of reading, along with a next-door neighbor and teacher that loaned her books growing up. Most were true crime and suspense, which only fueled her spirited imagination. She went from writing poems and short stories to her first full-length novel, Because You’re Mine, in 2017.
Proud to be an Iowa native, Marin now calls Arizona home. She resides with a Goldendoodle named after Dashiell Hammett, the author of the Maltese Falcon. Dashiell is a hard-boiled detective in his own right, sniffing out offending objects, though Marin imagines him with a British accent.
Marin is represented by Jill Marshal of the Marshal Lyon Literary Agency.
Connect with Marin at authormarin@gmail.com or follow her on Instagram @marinmont18.
