“Maybe we are all fools, one way or another, when it comes to seeing the totality of the people who love us—the people we try to love.”
Genre: Mysteries and Thrillers
Actual Rating: 3.5 stars
Spicy Meter: N/A, it’s clean.
Content Warnings: Discusses mobs, fraud, parent death, fake identities, disappearances, and hit and runs.
“The Last Thing He Told Me” follows Hannah Hall as she sets to find her missing husband, Owen Michaels, who left her a single note that wrote “Protect her”. That ‘her’ is Bailey Michaels, Hannah’s husband’s daughter, who perhaps isn’t the fondest of Hannah. Pretty quickly, they both realize Owen perhaps isn’t who he said he is.
I really enjoyed this read. I’m actually a bit sad I rated it this low, but I’ve got my reasons. Hannah and Bailey are great, they’re complex and clever and honestly, just like two people you could truthfully run into in real life. They weren’t two-dimensional, it wasn’t all black and white, I loved that. But—and it’s a bit but—I did not like the ending. At all. After seeing them fight to find Owen they just…didn’t do what I expected them to do. The whole thing felt really out of character.
Nonetheless, I would highly recommend this read if you’re looking for a mystery novel. It reminded me of “The Guest List” by Lucy Foley and “The Maid” by Nita Prose, but not because of their plot, because of the way they made me feel—like I knew a lot, only to be blindsided by the truth.
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“This is the thing about good and evil. They aren’t so far apart—and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.”
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