The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave.
Thank you to Simon & Schuster for the gifted copy in exchange for my honest review.
Book Synopsis
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a U.S. Marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.
Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they are also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated.
My Review
This book is told in three parts and jumps around in time before and after the disappearance of Owen Michaels. The chapters are not numbered, but rather given titles relating to the events of the chapters. This is a mystery, a family drama, and is a story about familial bonds and the relationship between a father and a daughter and also the relationship between a stepmother and stepdaughter.
This book reads as more of a family drama/mystery than a thriller. This is a fast paced mystery and definitely kept me reading. This book lends itself well to being adapted for the screen and reads a bit like it was written for being adapted and I am not surprised that it was adapted into a limited series. The series is currently available for streaming via Apple TV.
I started watching the series once I got to the halfway point in the book and some of the lines are taken word for word from the novel. From what I have watched so far, the adaptation has followed the novel very closely.
The book wraps up nicely at the ending, specifically in terms of the relationship between Hannah and Bailey and at the same time keeps an element of mystery for the reader.
My Rating: 3.5/5
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Book Details
Author: Laura Dave.
Publisher: Simon And Schuster.
Publication Date: May 4, 2021.
Genre: Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Suspense. Mystery Thriller. Crime. Fiction. Adult Fiction. Contemporary Fiction.
Edition: Hardcover.
Pages: 306 pages.
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