Book Review: "Until We Are Lost" By Leslie Archer

This was a hard one to endure, to review, and to process as it dealt with a number of difficult and disturbing topics.

For starters, masochism, abandonment, abuse, sadistic pleasure, and much more. The characters were deeply troubled. Tara in particular the twin of Sophie who went missing really needs help to process her wounds and deep emotional scars.

The story develops into a situation between the parents and their own inadequacies with numerous flashbacks, various timelines, and complex situations within therapy sessions that require one's undivided attention to detail.

While this was difficult it was written well but had thrown in a ton of broken pieces from these girls and the lack of parental involvement and love was apparent. The parents in essence cared more about themselves with the father using the kids to advance his own agenda with hypnotic trances and their mother as a holy roller. The relationship with Figgy the next door neighbor as well as the therapist spouse Marwyn Rusk and his wife Dr. Lind also brought up past wounds for Tara.

The drug use and sexual abuse as well as the rape, molestation, pregnancy, and more was traumatic for all.

To be brutally honest I wanted to end this one early and take a DNF but around the 80% point it did start to get intriguing but in a matter of fact way that built upon a disgust of what was previously presented in the plot.

The ending cleared up some of the mental fog but not enough for me to push this to a higher rating. This for me is on the fence and if we had half stars I think I'd offer this up as a 3.5 star rating.

Thank you to Leslie Archer, the pub, NetGalley, and Amazon Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.