In this Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller, a devastating secret is revealed, and a family must finally come to terms with the past.Single mother Maisey Addington has always fallen short of her own mother’s expectations—never married, a bit adrift, wasting her high IQ on dead-end jobs. The only thing Maisey’s sure she’s gotten right is her relationship with her twelve-year-old daughter, … twelve-year-old daughter, Elle…until a phone call blows apart the precarious balance of their lives. Maisey’s mother is in a coma, and her aging father faces charges of abuse and neglect.
Back at her childhood home, Maisey must make a heartrending life-or-death decision. Her confused father has destroyed family records, including her mother’s final wishes. Searching for answers, Maisey uncovers one unspeakable secret after another when she stumbles upon a shattering truth: a twin sister named Marley.
Maisey’s obsession with solving the mystery of her sister forces her to examine her darkest memories and triggers a custody battle with Elle’s father. Will Maisey’s love for her daughter be strong enough to break a cycle of abuse and create a new beginning for them all?
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This book had a lot of bizarre secrets held by the characters, but if you look realistically at life, all the secrets were entirely plausible. In each case, the characters found peace and understanding only after confessing what had happened to them.
I loved this book. The story line was different and I couldn’t put it down!
Outstanding from the very first page. The characters and situations felt real and the repercussions of domestic violence rang true.
Whisper Me This is not the typical genre of book I read. With that being said, I could not put the book down. Maisey’s story was very compelling. There were times that I could not relate to Maisey but I have not had the experiences she has had. By the end of the book I understood more about Maisey and her decision methods and reactions. My heart was very moved by all of the characters stories, growth, and progress.
Once again this is a new author for me and I need to go back and read her earlier books because I found this one so well done. This is an intense novel about the result of domestic abuse through the generations and the ability of women to rise up and take back their power from those who try to abuse them – either physically or emotionally.
Maisey is a single mother with a 12 year old daughter Elle. At the beginning of the novel, Maisy is adrift in her life and not living to her potential. She gets a phone call that her mother has just been taken to the hospital and her father may be arrested for neglect. She rushes to her childhood home and finds her father totally confused and finds out that her mother is in a coma that she will probably not come out of. She hasn’t been home in years but was still shocked at the situation she found her parents in. After she goes through some of the paperwork, she finds out that she had a twin sister she had dreamed about but had no idea really existed. As Maisey tries to get to the bottom of this startling revelation, she finds even more secrets about her parents that make her wonder if her whole life was a lie. When her daughter’s father tries to get custody of Elle, Maisey learns that she has to learn to stand up for herself and her family and stop the cycle of secrets in their lives.
This wonderful intense novel kept me intrigued throughout. It’s a wonderful story about a woman who has to learn to find her own voice to protect her daughter and her family.
Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book to read and review. All opinions are my own.
I thought this was an amazing book! Maisey receives a phone call that changes the course of her life – her mom is in a coma and her kind, gentle father is under scrutiny for possible abuse. Maisey and her precocious 12 year old daughter, Elle, head to Maisey’s childhood home to get to the bottom of the events that resulted in her mom’s coma. The story that unfolds is a mix of heartbreaking abuse (both physical and emotional) and what a mother will do to protect her children. I loved that parts of Leah’s (Maisey’s mom) journal was interspersed throughout the book so the reader could get her point of view as well as why she did some of the things she did. I highly recommend this book!
“Whisper Me This” by Kerry Anne King, is a thought-provoking, intriguing, intense and emotional read. The Genres for this novel are Fiction, Women’s Fiction, and Mystery. Kudos to Kerry Anne King for discussing issues of physical and emotional abuse and how it affects others.In this novel, the author not only describes a woman’s point of view, but shows the men’s reaction as well. The author writes about the importance of family, mother-daughter relationships, emotional support, honesty, love and hope. This is also a novel where the characters have many dark secrets. The timeline is in the present and goes back to the past when it pertains to the characters or events in the stories.
The author describes her characters as complex and complicated. As deep, dark secrets start to unravel, single mom. Maisey Addington finds that her world as she knows it will change forever. Maisey has a strong connection to her young daughter Elle, and would do anything to protect her. A phone call brings Maisey and Elle back to her hometown where her mother is in a coma, and it looks like her frail Dad might be responsible for it. Someone is responsible for older fractures and broken bones that Maisey’s Mom has.
When Maisey was a child, she would have an imaginary friend named Marley. Whenever Maisey would mention Marley’s name, her mother would go into quite a fury. Now it seems, that there really is a Marley, Maisey’s twin sister. Maisey becomes obsessed in finding her sister, and could be in danger. I would recommend this captivating story to readers that enjoy a thought-provoking, and suspenseful novel. I received an ARC from NetGalley for my honest review.
I normally try to avoid tear jerkers, but I could not put this book down. It will make you curious, sad, hopeful, angry, and most of all, you will cheer for Maisey (and the people she loves). No one should ever go through what happened to this family.
Engrossing. Plot highlights issues that many of us face and it’s interesting to see how this family deals with them with courage, insight and love.