She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari Lapena

Whiplash is a great word to describe this book. ~ Sheila

Bryden and Sam Frost have a good marriage. They both have amazing careers and are financially well off, living in a luxurious condo with their young daughter, Clara. Bryden, who works from home, admittedly is often pushing her luck on picking up their daughter from daycare on time, so when she is late on this particular day, and Sam receives a call at work from the daycare that Bryden has not shown up to pick up Clara and they cant get ahold of her – while annoying… it is not panic worthy.
But, upon arrival at home after picking up Clara, Sam finds his wife’s car, her laptop open, and her cell phone on the table. Bryden – is nowhere to be found – it’s like she has just

disappeared.


I listened to this on audio over the past few days while doing a little book room cleaning. While I enjoyed the book, I honestly found it to be too character-heavy with too many fingers pointed every which way…. just when I thought I had it, something new comes up and someone else looks guilty – while I know this is all part of the psychological suspense thriller, for me, it was too much – too many turns and in the end it wrapped up so quickly I am still not certain I understand what happened.

I would give this a 3 (average rating), as it did hold my interest and had a good flow, other than the too many red herrings.

Rated: 3 out of 5
Read Author Before: No
Read Author Again: possibly, it looks like she has good ratings and some fun titles 🙂
Book Club Worthy: Hard to say – while there is a chance to talk about who everyone thought did it – I’m not sure I see any deep discussion out of this ( not like they all have to be ( or are, lol) deep

Hmmmm... what do you think?