Vantage Point - Sara Sligar

Fiction/Thriller

Rating: 9/10

Clara can’t remember when she learned about the family curse. There was no pomp and circumstance, nobody came out and said, Clara everyone thinks your family is irrevocably doomed.

Clara and her brother Teddy grew up on a small island in Maine in the shadow of their parents’ tragic deaths. Years later, with Teddy married to Clara’s best friend, Jess, and both believing they have put their turbulent past to rest, things start to fall apart in spectacular fashion.

An intimate video of Clara has leaked online, and the most frightening part, she can’t recall any of it. And that’s just the beginning. As things start to pile on for all of them, the reader will be pulled alongside as they frantically try to navigate a path they could never have seen coming.

The challenges of the internet age are front and center in this story. People feeling free to instruct you, to criticize you, to batter you with vicious commentary they would never have the guts to say out loud, and definitely not in person. The author has sounded an alarm on how thin, and insidious, the line between synthetic and real has become.

The End: our author chooses to play one last cat and mouse game with us. We have finished a book where we believed one person was the narrator. But what proof do we have?

My thanks to NetGalley, Farrar, Straus & Giroux publishers and the author for an advanced readers copy.

Book Pairing(s): Take Me Apart by Sara Siglar, First Day Of Spring by Nancy Tucker, Girl Gone Mad by Avery Bishop