** I received e-copy from the publisher via NetGalley. Many thanks to @berkleypub .** I’m pleased to be part of #blitztour in celebration of #debutrelease, My Sweet Girl- an intriguing, dark, atmospheric, and #suspense #thriller- partly author’s experiences of living in the US and being a brown woman navigating typically white spaces, and partly an ode to the horror stories author whispered as a child growing up in Sri Lanka. 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 My Sweet Girl was suspenseful thriller that revolved around Paloma’s past life and her past catching up for what she did to get adopted. The story was about life of orphans, trust, friendship, betrayal, revenge, lies and deceit. The story was in dual timeline taking place in present California and past in orphanage in Sri Lanka which made story more mysterious and suspenseful. Characters were complicated. I didn’t like any of them, only few side characters were good but both main characters, protagonist and antagonist were horrible. Sure one wasn’t as bad as the other but I didn’t like them. There were layers of racism, bullying and prejudice not just towards South Asian characters but also among them and their views towards white. It also represented trauma of losing child, because of abusive people and sexual predators. I liked mention of classic novels in this book. Why 4 stars- Often I wanted to put it down because of pace. I was too impatient and just wanted to read revelations. Overall, #MySweetGirl was intriguing, suspenseful, dark and atmospheric thriller with well written twists and complicated characters. I recommend this if you like, Slow burn thriller unreliable narrator complex and unlikable characters dark and atmospheric setting intriguing and suspenseful plot dual timeline South Asian character and setting 𝙌𝙊𝙏𝘿-𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 5 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧? #reader #bookstagrammer #bookaesthetic #bookphotography #BooksTeacupandReviews #bookrec #Indianbookstagram #bookcommunity #bookgram #Bookrrview #thriller #mystery #AmandaJayatissa #BerkleyPublishing (at Ahmedabad, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTzUTdzgmcc/?utm_medium=tumblr
