You Can’t Hide – Emily Shiner.

Summary

Beth and Ian are desperate to have a child. So much so that they decide to sell his family cabin in upstate New York to pay for IVF.

When they arrive at the cabin, they meet Ryan, the caretaker. But Ryan is not who he says he is… He’s here because he knows Beth has a dark secret. And now he intends to use it against her.

He threatens to tell Ian everything about Beth’s past unless she does exactly what he says.

Beth finds herself caught in a nightmarish trap. If Ian discovers what she’s been hiding from him, she’s sure he’ll leave her. She’ll lose everything she cares about, including the chance to have a child of her own. On the other hand, what Ryan wants her to do is so dark and twisted it’s beyond horrifying.

Either way, Beth is sure her life is over, she can see no way out.

Unless she digs deep and finds a part of herself that is willing to do something so awful it doesn’t even bear thinking about…

Review

Ehh….
A very whatever read, there were minor things that i didn’t like (like accidental things magically happening for the benefit of the mc for example) but the negatives weren’t exactly influential to rate this lower and the reverse holds true, there was a lack of good things in this book to rate it higher so it’s just a lukewarm read. I think the similarity of the plot with Behind Closed Doors actually works against this book, even though there were new stakes risen up here.

I did find bits of character inconsistencies while I read and while they really aren’t that important to the plot, there are only about 2 characters that actually had personalities, so those silly little things were noticeable enough to break me out of the narration. For example, Lizzie says that she doesn’t believe in heaven but in the same page she says she would swear “even on the bible” that something is true so….. how does that work? You would swear on the bible because you think it’s powerful enough but don’t believe in religion at the same time?

I don’t know, things like that ruin the writing a bit for me.

All in all, a very predictable plot and one under developed character that we are supposed to care for in the end.