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The Father She Went to Find by Carter Wilson is a hard hitting, razor-sharp, and original thrillery mystery novel jam packed with angst, brokenness, giftedness and tenacity.

Penny had a serious fall when she was seven. The trauma caused her to become one of only seventy five savants in the world with incredibly special skills. She has a love/hate relationship with her father who she feels compelled to find. People in her life have a tendency to leave which weighs heavily on her psyche. Rather than feel sorry for herself she takes matters into her own hands. Her journey leads to places and situations she wouldn't have imagined, some very dark.

The writing is clever but the brief sentences, though effective, didn't connect with me. Additionally, the grit isn't my personal wheelhouse. But the premise is fantastic. I really like the savant information, something rarely...if ever...encountered in books. The characters are well written with excellent insight into human nature.

My sincere thank you to Poisoned Pen Press and NetGalley for providing me with a digital copy of this unique novel.

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The Father She Went to Find written by Carter Wilson had me completely and utterly captivated. The synopsis had me intrigued but actually reading the story blew me away and Carter Wilson is immediately on to my favourite authors list

Penny is unique, so unique, she has been in an institute for the intellectually gifted since she came around from a coma. Penny has an idetic memory that goes beyond the usual understanding of the term. She remembers every single iota of every single event, and everything she has seen or learned about for her entire life. Just not about the accident that landed her in a coma. The accident for which she blames her mother, and which caused her father to disappear

All Penny knows is the institute. It is safe there, with her Doctor, until he calls her one day, letting er know he has a new job. This is at the core of a chain of events, whereby Penny decides to break out of the institute, just before she turns 21. The real world however, is a total eclipse from the institute and when Peny is witness to a double murder in a comedy club, life gets even more complicated than it already is

This book is as unique as Penny is. The characters within are not those we would usually encounter, but that does not detract in any way from their plausibility in the context of the storyline and with their connection ot real events in history. Carter has written a compelling novel that is all at once action packed, but is also empathetic. This is very clear with Penny's introspection and storyline as well as the stories of each of the supporting cast (my favourite scene has to be either the conversation with the assassin in the diner which gives a fantastic perception of intelligence vs wisdom) and the final chapters, which are brief, but beyond a plot twist, a plot spiral and splintering shards that are so very well written.

Whether audiobook or print, I absolutely recommend this book, stunning

Thank you to Netgalley, Poisoned Pen Press and the author Carter Wilson for this stellar ARC. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own

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This was a really good book. Talk about an adventure! I enjoyed the story although I found it a little odd how trusting people can be when they themselves trying to keep their own secrets.

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This was a very interesting story featuring Penny, who might have died when she was seven. She did not, but when she woke up, she had abilities that made her a savant. Her father left soon after she was injured, and the only contact she has with him is a birthday card that arrives once a year.
The card he sends her on her 21st birthday, makes her decide to leave the sheltered world she has inhabited, and find her father. She meets good and bad people along the way, and learns what it means to live in the real world.
The ending hit me out of left field. Iโ€™m still undecided whether I loved it or hated it. But I do appreciate when a book stays with me for days and makes me reconsider everything that happens.

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This was a unique story with complex and interesting characters. I enjoyed the interaction between Penny and Travis. The pacing is quick. There were parts of this book that are completely outlandish but I couldn't stop turning pages. It did take me a couple tries to get into the story but once I did I was hooked.

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4.5/5 ๐ŸŒŸ

Thank you to NetGalley, Poisoned Pen Press, and Carter Wilson for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I recommend this book to those who like Thrillers in which the character doesn't know what to do/where to go next. The characters we meet along the way only help the story become more complex and make you wonder what will happen next.

I loved that Penny was a savant and the descriptions of her "gifts" were wonderful and added another unique layer.

In all honesty, I am new in my reading-for-fun journey as an adult and trying to find authors and genres I love. After reading this piece, I am excited to read more by Carter Wilson!

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โญโญโญโญโญ | ๐”ฝ๐• ๐•ฃ๐•ž๐•’๐•ฅ: ๐”ผ-๐”น๐• ๐• ๐•œ

๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ, ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ž, ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ค๐ฒ, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ญ-๐ฉ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ˆ'๐ฏ๐ž ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ข๐ง๐ ! ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐›๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ณ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐›๐จ๐จ๐ค?? ๐Ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ง๐, ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐š ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ? ๐ˆ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฅ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ -๐จ๐Ÿ-๐š๐ ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ. ๐“๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐–๐ข๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐›๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ผ ๐’ธ๐’ถ๐“ƒ๐“ƒ๐‘œ๐“‰ ๐“‡๐‘’๐’ธ๐‘œ๐“‚๐“‚๐‘’๐“ƒ๐’น ๐’พ๐“‰ ๐‘’๐“ƒ๐‘œ๐“Š๐‘”๐’ฝ.

๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐›๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ž ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž ๐๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ? ๐“ฃ๐“ฑ๐“ฒ๐“ผ ๐“ฒ๐“ผ ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ๐“ช๐“ฝ ๐“ซ๐“ธ๐“ธ๐“ด. ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ˆ ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ๐ž ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐š ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ž ๐š๐ฌ๐š๐ฉ!

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐…๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐’๐ก๐ž ๐–๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐…๐ข๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ง๐ง๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ, ๐š ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ-๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฏ๐š๐ง๐ญ. ๐’๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ“ ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐›๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ. ๐…๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ? ๐’๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž๐ฌ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ. ๐Ž๐ก, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž'๐ฌ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ, ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž๐ง, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ. ๐ธ๐“‹๐‘’๐“‡.

๐๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ "๐ ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ฌ," ๐๐ž๐ง๐ง๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐š ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž, ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ง ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐œ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ž๐ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐›๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ. ๐–๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐๐ž๐ง๐ง๐ฒ'๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ -๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐œ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐๐ž๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฃ๐จ๐›, ๐๐ž๐ง๐ง๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐š๐›๐š๐ง๐๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ซ. ๐’ฎ๐’ฝ๐‘’ ๐“๐‘’๐’ถ๐“‹๐‘’๐“ˆ ๐“Œ๐’พ๐“‰๐’ฝ ๐“๐‘’๐“ˆ๐“ˆ ๐“‰๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“ƒ $๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿข๐Ÿข ๐’พ๐“ƒ ๐’ฝ๐‘’๐“‡ ๐“…๐‘œ๐’ธ๐“€๐‘’๐“‰, ๐“ƒ๐‘œ ๐’ธ๐’ถ๐“‡ ๐“‰๐‘œ ๐’ฝ๐‘’๐“‡ ๐“ƒ๐’ถ๐“‚๐‘’, ๐“ƒ๐‘œ ๐“…๐“๐’ถ๐“ƒ, ๐’ถ๐“ƒ๐’น ๐“ƒ๐‘œ ๐’พ๐’น๐‘’๐’ถ ๐“Œ๐’ฝ๐‘’๐“‡๐‘’ ๐’ฝ๐‘’๐“‡ ๐’ป๐’ถ๐“‰๐’ฝ๐‘’๐“‡ ๐’พ๐“ˆ. ๐ˆ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ญ, ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐š ๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐š๐ฉ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ซโ€“๐š "๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ฉ"โ€“๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐š ๐ซ๐จ๐š๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ ๐ญ๐จ๐ ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ซ (๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ง'๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ).

๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐›๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐›๐š๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ -๐จ๐Ÿ-๐š๐ ๐ž. ๐ˆ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ซ!

โ„๐•–๐•๐•–๐•’๐•ค๐•– ๐”ป๐•’๐•ฅ๐•–: ๐”ธ๐•ก๐•ฃ๐•š๐• ๐Ÿš, ๐Ÿš๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿš๐Ÿœ

๐ป๐“Š๐‘”๐‘’ ๐“‰๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“ƒ๐“€ ๐“Ž๐‘œ๐“Š ๐“‰๐‘œ ๐’ฉ๐‘’๐“‰๐’ข๐’ถ๐“๐“๐‘’๐“Ž, ๐’ž๐’ถ๐“‡๐“‰๐‘’๐“‡ ๐’ฒ๐’พ๐“๐“ˆ๐‘œ๐“ƒ, ๐’ถ๐“ƒ๐’น ๐’ซ๐‘œ๐’พ๐“ˆ๐‘œ๐“ƒ๐‘’๐’น ๐’ซ๐‘’๐“ƒ ๐’ซ๐“‡๐‘’๐“ˆ๐“ˆ ๐’ป๐‘œ๐“‡ ๐‘”๐’พ๐“‹๐’พ๐“ƒ๐‘” ๐“‚๐‘’ ๐’ถ ๐’ป๐“‡๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘’-๐’œ๐‘…๐’ž ๐’พ๐“ƒ ๐‘’๐“๐’ธ๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“ƒ๐‘”๐‘’ ๐’ป๐‘œ๐“‡ ๐“‰๐’ฝ๐’พ๐“ˆ ๐’ฝ๐‘œ๐“ƒ๐‘’๐“ˆ๐“‰ ๐“‡๐‘’๐“‹๐’พ๐‘’๐“Œ!

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I love it when you request an ARC on NetGalley on a whim and the book totally surprises you in a very good way!!! ๐Ÿ™Œ

The book was just excellent - I loved the characters, the writing style, the twists - all of it! โค๏ธ It even had me a little emotional in parts! ๐Ÿฅบ

This was my first read by this author and it certainly will not be my last!!! Highly recommend this one, book peeps!! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

Thank you to NetGalley, Poisoned Pen Press, and Carter Wilson for the opportunity to read this in exchange for my honest review! โค๏ธ

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On her 21st birthday Penny Bly decides to finally leave town and go find her father; the father she hasnโ€™t seen since her accident when she was little. Penny has a photographic memory that developed at this incident. When she steps outside of her sheltered life, she very quickly finds herself in a lot of trouble. Her memory never lets her forget a second of it.

I LOVED this mystery and could not put it down! The chapters are all very short and make it easy to just fly through. I loved the characters; the friends Penny meets along her journey are so well written, you canโ€™t help but hope they all find what they are looking for. I put together several theories in my head to try and figure everything out, but was shocked by the plot twists at the end!

I also loved the bits of action that was worked into this book and the way Pennyโ€™s memory worked. Everything flowed so well. I was shocked to find myself tearing up at the end, but I think it was the perfect conclusion to this book. Definitely recommend this one!

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I would highly recommend reading this book! I think if I wasn't busy I would've read the whole book in a day! It's about a young woman who becomes a savant and decides to go cross country to find her father. She leaves with little money, no plan, and has a trip like none you would ever expect or imagine.

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Thank you for this ARC! I thought I had the twist figured out in the first 10% of the book. Wrong! This was such an interesting story with the main character being a savant. Would recommend to my audience.

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I sure do love Carter Wilsons writing and always will. When I saw this book was going to be coming out this year I got so excited to see I was approved to read an e-ARC of this.

Do you love a gripping fast paced, action packed book that will grab you from the first page leaving you questioning everything until you finish. I sat down and did not reemerge until I was done. Loved everything about this.

I adored Pennys character and how well developed she was. This storyline/plot was so well written!!! We follow Penny through twists & turns on a wild ride of complete chaos as she tried to find her father. How you believe this book is going to end will surly surprise you.

A new favorite read of 2024 that should be on every thriller loving readers TBR.

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Thanks to #NetGalley and #PoisonedPenPress for the book #TheFatherSheWentToFind by #CarterWilson. This book is about the journey and 21 year old woman goes on to find her father. Along the way there is so much chaos and murder, until she makes it to where she thinks her father is. This is a first time author and I would recommend this book.

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Super smart Penny has always wondered why her father left when she was in a coma at 7 years old. When she receives a birthday card in the mail from him with a return address, she decides to leave the safety of her mother's house and ventures out on a road trip to find him. Along the way, Penny is confronted with many different characters and some seriously dangerous situations. Will Penny find out why her father left all those years ago?

Holy moly. This book was such a wild ride. I kept thinking things couldn't possibly get any worse but then situation upon situation were added to Penny's journey. There were so many twists in this fast paced story, combined with the short chapters it made for the exact type of thriller I enjoy. Highly recommend you add this to your list if you enjoy road trip style thrillers.

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An unusual (to say the least) heroine in Penny and a zippy plot fuel this road trip coming of age story that becomes a page turner. Penny has not experienced the world, having lived in an institution that studies her brain, since the age of 7. Now 21, she's determined to find the father she's never known. Along the way she meets Travis and Fia, as well as a wide cast of good guys, bad guys, and so on. The short chapters work perfectly. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. A good read.

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This one kept me engaged throughout! The twists were quite as good as I'd hoping they'd be, but still were not predicable. The writing style was clear and concise--It was easy for me to follow along. In addition, loved the narrator for this one!

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This was an interesting book, an interesting story about a young woman trying to find herself and her father who had left her mom and her when she was young. Penny was 7 went she fell down a flight of stairs and hit her head, she was in a coma for a period of time and remembered nothing when she woke up. She eventually realized she could draw most anything in a very realistic way, something she couldn't do prior to the fall. Penny has just turned 21 and has received a birthday card from her father, letting her know that it's the last one because she's an adult now. Penny decides that she's going to find her father (even though she has no money and doesn't know how to drive), she starts by going to the mall, where she sees a guy drawing a picture of a woman, she can tell the woman isn't happy with it, so offers to do one for her, free if she doesn't like it, ten buck if she does, the woman loves it and gives her twenty for it. She meets Travis at the mall and they decide to go together to California, which is where she thinks her father is, Travis has a car and knows someone who'll lend them money, turns out that someone is a loan shark and while they are getting the money gun shots ring out and the both take off in different directions. They eventually meet up again and end up in a small town because Penny had overhead a conversation in the loan shark office that a woman was going to get killed in this town, they save the woman who also joins them on their journey. It's a very well written and engaging story, I was really hoping the Penny would find her father and life would be all roses and sunshine, things don't end like that but it was still a very good book. Thanks to #Netgalley and #Poisonedpenpress for the ARC.

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Thrills, action and suspense - oh my! At first, I couldn't get into this book but once I found my stride I couldn't put it down. I loved the short crazy chapters, wonderful writing.

Thank you for this ARC!

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Thank you to #netgalley and the publishers for this ARC!

I was a little.....confused after reading Carter Wilson's The Father She Went to Find. The storyline is decent enough: a 7-year-old girl is put into a coma, and when she awakens years later, she discovers that her father has abandoned her. With savant powers, she woke up and went looking for him. She narrates a little bit untrustworthy. Having said that, the novel lacks the essential storyline and character development to be a completely developed work.

It was a slow read for me but wasn't terrible.

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Penny is savant after an accident when she was seven after she fell down the stairs and had been in an institute ever since and when she turned 21 she received her yearly birthday card from her dad so she decided to leave the institute and go and find him.
The adventures she has is quite unbelievable for someone who has led a sheltered life so the story line went a bit downhill for me. and I just could not relate to Penny at all
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the ARC and I give my honest review

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