I'LL TELL YOU EVERYTHING by Rebecca Kelley

 4* Not what I was expecting, but despite this, it was an engrossing tale of someone who'd - I think, at the start - wanted the best for her unborn child, but whose plans were flawed. And actions moreso. 

Hmm. Was Amy a user? A manipulator? A sociopath? A psychopath? Someone whose brain got it wrong and then couldn't figure a way out? Did she have post-natal depression? Even pre-natal depression? All of the former, maybe? It was hard to tell, as we get glimpses of one of the people she'd 'wronged' very late in the tale, and even after her 'reveal' that got her what she deserved, she then felt the need to make Ramona complicit by telling her more, making the tale end on a cliff hanger. And said person hadn't deserved what happened to them, but Amy was utterly cold and calculating in the whitewashed version of the 'truth' but right at the end, that veered into something far more unpleasant and shocking. But she didn't seem remorseful, and she didn't seem grateful that Ramona, Gabe and her husband were still in her life. I can't figure her out. I think it's far more than self-preservation and her childhood that have fashioned her into what she is/has done, but can't label her accurately. 

The point of the tale? I'm not sure there was one. But, it drew me in, wanting Ramona's truth, which I suspect she didn't get.

ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing, for my reading pleasure.


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