I loved the setting and the characters in The Last Thing She Saw, but I struggled with the pacing. I wish there was more suspense and action to move the plot forward. In general, I don't love dual timelines, and this is an example of where flashbacks slowed down the story for me. There just wasn't enough tension to compel me to keep reading, but I'm giving it four stars because I do think there was a lot of strong elements in this book.

I am a fan of this author and have liked a lot of her previous books. This one was pretty good but didn't work as well for me. It was told in two timelines, past while the mother was a teenager and the present with it being primarily the daughter's story. Somehow this made it harder to follow. It was a mystery, who was the body that was discovered in the wall. More so, it was the troubled relationship between the mother and daughter, the troubled relationship with the town for them both and the daughter's relationship with her ex boyfriend. Alcoholism, small town dynamics, mental illness and many secrets.

The blurb of this made it sound amazing, but I was extremely bored. I would not even consider this a thriller at all.

I think this author needs to learn how to build suspense, because 50% of the way in and it still felt like I was just reading background info with nothing exciting. I am being generous by giving 2 stars, because this was actually a DNF for me, but I am also in a slump so I’ll give it 2 as the benefit of the doubt that maybe some parts got good towards the end. However, I cannot recommend this one.

Thank you to netgalley for this free advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

A really great spooky story. I very much enjoyed the cast of characters as well as the dual timeline. The author also snuck in some supernatural elements in, which I really liked.

Very good! I finished this one rather fast. The writing was also a plus. First read by this author. NetGalley tends to show me a lot of authors I never heard of prior love it!

Stephanie has returned to her rural town in Quebec to live with her erratic mother in the trailer she was raised in. She dreads seeing friends and neighbors in town but hopes to resurrect her podcast career based on the discovery of a child's body. She is sure that the body is a young girl that disappeared during her childhood and is determined to be a part of the investigation.

Fighting off conspiracy theories rampant in town, she is faced with the fact that the body may not be the young Michelle! A good twisty story for all who love the genre! #grandcentralpublishing

A child's body is discovered after a devastating flood in the center of a small Quebec town called Marly. It is discovered to be that of nine-year-old Michelle Fortier, who went missing in 1979. Stephanie O'Malley is back in Marly after having vowed never to return to her hometown and is determined to find out the truth about what happened to Michelle. This book was suspenseful, propulsive and not to be missed!