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Tear Me Apart
by J.T. Ellison
My rating: **** out of 5 stars
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17-year-old Mindy Wright is a competitive skier likely to make the Olympic team until she has a terrible accident during a competition. At the hospital, doctors realize that there is more to worry about than just Mindy’s leg. She has an aggressive form of leukemia and will need a stem cell transplant if there is any hope at all of her getting better.
That’s when Mindy’s world completely falls apart. A long-kept secret is necessarily revealed – Mindy is adopted. Not even Mindy’s father knew. Only Mindy’s mother, Lauren, knows the real truth, and everyone begins to suspect that she is keeping more information from them, especially her sister, Juliet, who works for the FBI. Is Lauren’s lack of openness an attempt to keep Mindy from being hurt, or is she hiding something more sinister?
This was my first book by Ellison, but definitely won’t be my last. I loved how she slowly revealed the truth of Mindy’s past and kept us guessing the entire book. I highly recommend this book to those that love suspense!
If this sounds like a book for you, you may also like:
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
I’m intrigued by the whole secret cover-up aspect, but…am I going to bawl big tears over the cancer stuff?? I can’t handle sad books very well. 🙁
No, I don’t think you’ll cry. I am HUGE bawler, too. But this book did not make me cry. It was more of a suspenseful read.