A stunning psychological thriller about loss, sisterhood, and the evil that men do, for readers of Ruth Ware and S.K. Tremeyne
Two solar eclipses. Two missing girls.
Sixteen years ago a little girl was abducted during the darkness of a solar eclipse while her older sister Cassie was supposed to be watching her. She was never seen again. When a local girl goes missing just before the next big eclipse, Cassie - who has returned to her home town to care for her ailing grandmother - suspects the disappearance is connected to her sister: that whoever took Olive is still out there. But she needs to find a way to prove it, and time is running out.
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[THE DAY SHE BECAME a local legend, Olive Warren did not do as she was told]***
(Titan Books, 5 March 2019, 400 pages, ebook, copy via the publisher and voluntarily reviewed, blog tour 26 February)
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After the Eclipse is a fantastic book, a great thriller packed with suspense and fantastic characters. I loved Cassie; she's the perfect main character, still damaged by her sister's disappearance. She was very real. My heart ached for her when she suspects whoever took her sister sixteen years ago is still very much alive and up to his old tricks. The guilt she feels for taking her attention off her sister to focus on a secret love affair is heart-breaking. This guilt has haunted her for sixteen years. The book contains flashbacks to what happened to Olive after she's taken. These were pretty intense and hard to read at times. I loved the way the past and what happened to Olive gradually blends with the present when Cassie moves closer to the truth. After the Eclipse is a stunner.
