A marriage that's dysfunctional, lacks communication, repetitive behaviors of cold shoulder treatments, silence, the gray rock, and then more gaslighting, mind games, and then on to the grand finale of 'mentally disturbed.'
Ladies we're all crazy when we uncover their truths! TRUST ME!You know my back story but I married a malignant narcissist so books such as this speak volumes and I welcome the dysfunction, the lack of communication, the anger, the bitterness because that's reality for many of us who lived this toxic lifestyle and lived to tell about it.
Surely, the situation via the internet online searches for crazy making patterns to convince judges to gain advancement in child custody hit the nerve because what guy hasn't tried this on his lady upon leaving to get sole custody of their kids? If you use the smear campaign, isolate, betray, and destroy her -what's left - other than to convince others she's an unfit mother so you can happily prance off with the newest upgrade while not having a care in the world about the kids you left behind.
Just sayin' for those who haven't understood this concept yet it's not new it's just that not everyone has had the same so when I see reviews saying it was not relatable I suppose it's for those who never married a soul - less individual (male or female) as I'm not a male basher.
With this noted I'll tell you this hit all the right notes in terms of thrillers. It set the pace, it carried its weight, it declared insanity, and it gaslighted like the best of them.
Granny - oh GRANNY- it's time to play some mind games- let's begin with this one: hide and go seek or how about we try yes or no game?! Would you like to play?
After all Granny is an imaginary friend-RIGHT?! LOL....
NOPE- but look this abductor/stalker/whack nut may have just taken off with Cody but she won't get far as her ship has sailed and her boat is sinking. Damn it...I meant her car...OOPS.
Well, ok here's the thing this back and forth tug of war with the parents is nothing compared to this heated exchange with James (aka Jimmy) the dad of Georgina our main lead character and her Aunt Anne (Jimmy's sis).
The truth is there's plenty of judgement being passed along as we so often see today with the arm chair critiques but not many of them lived to tell the story. I have - and I know from experience-this abuse and then labeling as a tramp is all too real.
So, I was actually thinking back and I'll never forget the day the now ex-girlfriend (enter sarcasm) spoke on my behalf claiming that she/he (my ex husband) never go anywhere together. They went on a mission to try to look happy together but it was extremely short lived. She's still married to another fella and had been messing with mine before we divorced. Yes, we're all crazy - but babe- you're now among the crazies! Welcome aboard.
Speaking of which did I mention that James got a gal pregnant?
I forgot to tell you guys that Magdalene Laundries (under the guidance of nuns) is not the place you want to go when in Ireland. In fact, it's where young ladies go to be forced to give up their newborns for either adoption or other means for being unwed mothers.
It's a shame-blame-and ridicule game that's intended to silence the victims of abuse and or domestic violence.
In this case, we have both and sadly we mock those who experience such to the point I'm sad to see fellow reviewers claiming low scores for reality based writings.
To each their own as this gal knows that there's about to be a new intro written -one in which the bad person dies- one body in car- and the rest of them live happily ever after.
Sadly, one of them didn't make it but it's probably for the best since this person suffered tremendously in the life of hard knocks. Raped, abandoned, and drowned! YIKES!
Thank you to the author, the pub, Netgalley, and Amazon Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.
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