Review of LAST SUMMER by Kerry Lonsdale

This book was not at all what I expected based on the title, but it was a spectacularly good read nevertheless. I expected a tale about love and the beach. What I read was a story of a magazine writer named Ella who has temporary memory loss after she was in a car accident and miscarried. In her loss of self, Ella tries to put herself back together by repeating an interview with an adventurer names Nathan. The story of Nathan and Ella and Ella and Damien is told slowly, like a slow burn or a teaser at a movie theater. What happened between Ella and Nathan is a mystery, only to be revealed at the end of the book. The mystery that unravels is what kept me reading long into the night, really wanting to find out who Ella really was and why she couldn’t remember what had happened to her. Her memory loss was not total amnesia, just a loss about the accident and what had happened to the baby that she had lost. The characters were believably portrayed with realistic emotions and scenes that played like a TV show, with some pauses for me to catch my breath and reflect on the action. I did not identify with any of the characters but I did enjoy finding out about them. Readers of psychological suspense will enjoy this latest book by Kerry Lonsdale.

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