Until the Day I Die
Emily Carpenter
Genre: Mystery / Suspense / Thriller
Published: March 12, 2019
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Synopsis:
If there’s a healthy way to grieve, Erin Gaines hasn’t found it. After her husband’s sudden death, the runaway success of the tech company they built with their best friends has become overwhelming. Her nerves are frayed, she’s disengaged, and her frustrated daughter, Shorie, is pulling away from her. Maybe Erin’s friends and family are right. Maybe a few weeks at a spa resort in the Caribbean islands is just what she needs to hit the reset button…
Shorie is not only worried about her mother’s mental state but also for the future of her parents’ company. Especially when she begins to suspect that not all of Erin’s colleagues can be trusted. It seems someone is spinning an intricate web of deception—the foundation for a conspiracy that is putting everything, and everyone she loves, at risk. And she may be the only one who can stop it.
Now, thousands of miles away in a remote, and oftentimes menacing, tropical jungle, Erin is beginning to have similar fears. Things at the resort aren’t exactly how the brochure described, and unless she’s losing her mind, Erin’s pretty sure she wasn’t sent there to recover—she was sent to disappear.
My rating really sits around 4.5 stars. I think Emily Carpenter is the first author to keep me in an extreme state of trepidation through at least half of a book. A slow burn at first, this book truly takes off as soon as Erin arrives at the “restoration” facility. I couldn’t read fast enough and the anxiety just continued to build. I was suspicious of everyone and everything; I was ready to accuse Ben’s dog, Tiger, by the last quarter of the book.
I had a bit of trouble with the timeline at the beginning due to the changes in POV between Erin and Shorie but eventually I was able to settle into Carpenter’s story-telling. I was in awe over how authentic Erin and Shorie’s voices were. Subtle changes in vocabulary and tone made such a difference that I wouldn’t have needed the chapter headings to let me know which POV we were reading. The emotions, particularly the anxiety felt by Erin and Shorie’s angst and frustration, were brilliantly written and relatable. I would love to listen to this as an audiobook!
This thriller had me hooked. I don’t necessarily enjoy being held up in suspense for the entirety of a book so I tend not to read many thrillers but I am so glad I made an exception for this book. I would love to listen to this as an audiobook!
