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Great read! Looking forward to reading more from this author! I highly recommend this book and author to all!
While I liked this book, I did not love it. It kept me reading but I didn't find that I was so engrossed in the book that I couldn't put it down. I think this would be good for a book club looking for a thriller.
This one was great! I would definitely suggest this for a book club! There are a lot of talking points to discuss!
This was one those reads that I tried to get into several times and was unable to continue reading. The writing was good from what I read but the story itself couldn't keep me engaged.
Good book, the writing was very interesting. I felt like I was the characters, and the plot was pretty good.
Tell Me You're Mine by Elisabeth Noreback had a unique plot. I didn't end up finishing it though -- not my favorite style of writing.
This book is edge of your seat story. It’s about Stella, her husband and son. Stella is still hurt when her 1 year old daughter drowned. She wound up in psychiatric hospital. is Everything is going ok until Stella sees her daughter Alice again.
Loved this book! Definitely a page turner I could not put down! I would recommend for anyone who loves a good mystery.
3.25 - I loved the plot of this story. At times the sentences seemed short and choppy and I’m assuming that’s due to it being translated. I’ve seen it in other translated books. I love reading these types of psychological books but this one was good but it didn’t suck me in. I read part of it, never finished it and recently decided to give it another try. Think lifetime movie. This book follows 3 different women whose lives are intertwined and connected by a missing little girl. Stella finally finds out what happened to her little girl that everyone believed had drowned on a family vacation but Stella never believed that.
This book was given to me by NetGalley for my honest review.
The lives of three women intersect in this engaging thriller: one who believes she has found her long lost daughter, one terrified she's about to lose her child, and one determined to understand who she truly is. It's a tale of motherhood, loss and obsession. As a mother myself, the topic of child abduction always makes for a psychologically terrifying read. This was an incredibly well crafted story with some fresh twists on the subject of kidnapping.
Thank you to G.P. Putnam's Sons and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this riveting thriller. All opinions are my own.
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Tell Me You’re Mine was SUCH a great read! I absolutely enjoyed it. So addictive & intense, did not want to stop. I was enjoying it so much that I was reading while at a wedding so you can just imagine 😂. It was great to buddy read with @thebooonookae. Half the time I was yelling “BUT SHE ISN’T CRAZY!!” (Not really yelling but you know what I mean 😂). Although I do have some unanswered questions.
Stella thinks that her new patient, Isabelle, is her long-lost daughter, Alice. But if she’s right, what about Isabelle’s parents? Is Isabelle’s mom just another innocent victim? Highly intense, emotional, and addictive, Tell Me You’re Mine kept me up all night reading. I literally couldn’t put the book down until the last page.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC.
Elisabeth Norebäck's Tell Me You're Mine was originally published in Sweden in 2017, and I'm so pleased it's now available to English-speaking readers. It's one of those books I hated to put down once I started reading, so be sure to have a good chunk of time to devote to it whenever you pick it up.
Stella is a psychotherapist who lives in Stockholm with her husband and teenaged son. A part of her loves her life, but there's another part that wallows in her grief for the daughter who went missing from a popular vacation spot when she was just a baby. It doesn't matter how many times Stella promises herself and those around her that she's going to put the past behind her and concentrate on her blessings instead, thoughts of her lost daughter are never far from her mind.
When a young woman named Isabelle comes to her seeking therapy, Stella is instantly certain that she's actually Alice, the daughter Stella hasn't seen for twenty years. Of course, Isabelle knows nothing about her true identity, but Stella is sure she'll be able to reveal the truth to her some time very soon. She just needs to gather the proof she needs to convince everyone, including Isabelle herself, that the baby who was assumed to have drowned is actually alive and well.
Isabelle is pretty sure her life is falling apart. Her beloved father has recently passed away, and her mother, with whom she has never been close, has told her he wasn't her biological father after all. Feeling understandably adrift, Isabelle decides to seek counseling from Stella who has come highly recommended, but it soon becomes obvious that Stella has issues of her own to sort out, issues that will force Isabelle to question everything she thinks she knows about her family.
If you're looking for something fast-paced and twisty, Tell Me You're Mine probably won't be the right book for you. It's much quieter than a lot of the thrillers out there, relying on the mounting tension between the characters to propel the story forward. There are a couple of twists toward the end, but they're not the novel's main selling point. Instead, its strength lies with the complex characters Ms. Norebäck has created. These aren't the picture perfect women who grace the pages of so much of today's literature. Rather, Stella, Isabelle, and Kirsten, who is Isabelle's mother, feel like women you might actually encounter out in the world. They have distinct strengths and weaknesses, and their actions always come off as authentic.
I initially found some of the writing to be a bit stilted. I'm not sure if this is due to the translation or if I simply needed to get used to the author's writing style, but the first fifty pages or so were kind of difficult for me to get through. Fortunately, the story itself sucked me in, and the writing ceased to be an issue after a while.
Parts of the story are quite disturbing, but not because of anything particularly graphic. It's more that the characters go through some pretty tough stuff, and the author is adept at making her readers feel like they're right there in the thick of things. I'm always super pleased when I come across an author who can do this, and I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for whatever Ms. Norebäck puts out next.
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I cannot wait to read work from the author in the future if this is how good her debut is! This thriller had well developed characters and twists that kept coming! Highly recommend!
Eh....it's a bit of a Sunday afternoon Lifetime movie of a plot. Stella is a psychotherapist and takes on a new patient that she is convinced is her long lost daughter. It's a bit messy and overwrought. It SHOULD become a Lifetime movie, though, it's got a good enough plot.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.
This was a hard read but so well thought out, I couldn't put it down! The book is told from three POVs: Stella (psychiatrist who lost her daughter Alice), Isabelle (a very confused 20-something that looks exactly like Alice), and Kerstin (Isabelle's mother). I immediately connected with the character of Stella because I too am a Mother and I could not fathom the emotional turmoil of losing a child. It was amazing how other characters in the book thought Stella should just move on with her life, but the question for her was always, "how can I when I feel deep down that she is not dead"?!?
During the first few pages of the book, the author so beautifully describes what seeing Isabelle entering Stella's office does to her and the rest of the story unfolds. Yes, there will be twist and turns in this story that will have you questioning what you thought you knew! You will probably go through every single emotion you possess, however, I finished this book in short order and I highly recommend reading this book!
Thanks you Netgalley, G. P. Putnam's Sons (Penguin Random House), and Elisabeth Noreback for an ARC of this book.
This is the story of a young mother who lost her child several years ago, supposedly to drowning in the ocean, but then a patient walks in to her office that she thinks is the missing girl.
The writing is very choppy. The story is overplayed and predictable. The book is still entertaining, but not in that edge of your seat way a thriller/suspense/mystery novel should be.
I wanted to love this, but just didn't. I thought it was a bit confusing from the beginning which sort of put it it in the not love group. Others might find it a bit more exciting than me, but I just couldn't get completely emerged to love.
Will let Chapter Chatter Pub know about realese date and also use in a daily challenge!
Is Isabelle really Alice, the daughter Stella lost all those years ago? Or, is Stella losing it? Why did Isabelle turn up at this point in Stella's life? Told from the perspective of Stella, a psychotherapist, Isabelle, and Kerstin, Isabelle's mother, it is both a well done mystery and at times a familiar plot. Isabelle has come to Stella for treatment but what's her real agenda? There are some unrealistic elements but it kept me engaged. No spoilers. I'm not sure the translation is as smooth as it could be. Thanks to the publisher for the ARC. This was Noreback's debut and I'm looking forward to more fro her.