“Little Sister” is a dark thriller, character driven with unreliable narrators, focusing on the effects of long buried secrets, lies, sibling rivalry and fragile relationships tangled in webs of mistrust. 

 

Told from the perspectives of the two sisters, Jess and Emily, both with completely different views on the past and with distorted memories of one particular event that shaped both their lives, it’s interesting to see where their recollections lead them in life. 

 

Sisterly relationships are uniquely special and unlike any other female friends and relations and this is never more prevalent as in this story, as we see love, jealously, rivalry and devotion fight for prominence. Withholding truths and keeping secrets, tie people up in their keeping and what Jess and Emily try to hide from each other only cause unnecessary turmoil. 

 

Each of the characters in the cast could be responsible for Daisy’s disappearance in their own way and it makes for an interesting read, seeing how their own perspectives fit the events that happened. 

 

The chapters contain flashbacks to Jess and Emily’s life and it’s their shared histories that are paramount to the relating of the story and the denouement. With twists and turns, red herrings and a missing baby, this all makes for an entertaining read, a slow burn but engrossing all the same. 

 

There were so many family turmoils going on, you really do feel that you should be turning away to give them privacy but the desire to ‘rubberneck’ is too strong and it’s impossible not to be addicted to continue reading. 

 

All in all an interesting thriller, dark at its heart and another winner in my opinion from talented author, Isabel Ashdown. 

 

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