Today I’m back with the Isabel Ashdown blogathon with Little Sister! My review is written with thanks to Tracy Fenton for inviting me on the blogathon.

Blurb:

Good Sister, bad sister, loving sister, jealous sister…

After sixteen years apart sisters Jessica and Emily are reunited.

Despite what happened years before, the warmth they once shared quickly returns and before long Jess has moved into Emily’s comfortable island home. Life couldn’t be better. But when Emily’s baby, Daisy disappears while in Jess’s care, the perfect life Emily has so carefully built starts to fall apart.

When long-held secrets come out into the open, who is there left to trust?

A tense thriller about sisters with a twist that will leave your heart in your mouth. Fans of In the Dark by Cara Hunter, The Girl Before by JP Delaney, The Last Thing She Told Me by Linda Green, Her Name Was Rose by Claire Allan and Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris will love this.

Review:

I’ve had Little Sister on my TBR for a while now, so I’m glad that the Isabel Ashdown blogathon has finally given me the chance to read it. I think it is my favourite book that I’ve read for the blogathon so far. It ticks so many boxes for a crime novel – it’s full of secrets, lies and unreliable characters.

On the face of it, Little Sister is the story of a missing baby and I found this aspect of the novel really intriguing as I wanted to know what had happened to Daisy and if she would be safely returned to her family. However, on a deeper level, the novel explores the relationship between sisters and I loved the way that Isabel Ashdown has written the dynamic between Emily and Jess. She takes us back to their childhood at regular intervals and this helps the reader to see how their relationship has reached the point we see in the novel, and how their actions in the novel are influenced by the events that happened in the past. I found it quite difficult to warm to Emily, and found myself siding with Jess whenever there was a disagreement. I wasn’t sure if this was the author’s intention, given that Emily is the mother of the missing child, but it certainly made the story interesting for me.

The plotting in Little Sister is really clever, as Isabel Ashdown frequently drops little clues to the bombshells that are coming which kept me engaged the whole way through. There were times when I thought I had been able to guess what was happening, but I couldn’t have been more wrong and I love the author’s ability to constantly surprise me.

I can’t wait to read more of the author’s work!

Little Sister is available from Amazon.