Week 41 Review: The Safest Lies

From Goodreads:

Can fear be inherited?

Kelsey has lived most of her life in a shadow of fear, raised to see danger everywhere. Her mother hasn't set foot outside their front door in seventeen years, since she escaped from her kidnappers with nothing but her attacker's baby growing inside her—Kelsey.

Kelsey knows she's supposed to keep a low profile for their own protection, but that plan is shattered when she drives off a cliff and is rescued by volunteer firefighter and classmate Ryan Baker.

A few days later, she arrives home to face her greatest fear: her mother is missing. She and her mother have drilled for all contingencies—except this one. Luckily, Ryan is as skilled at emergency rescues as Kelsey is at escape and evasion.

To have a chance at a future, Kelsey will have to face all her darkest fears. Because someone is coming for her.

And the truth about the past may end up being the most dangerous thing of all.

My Review:
I really enjoyed reading these books! I'm glad that I'm getting to these backlist Megan Miranda books, I missed them when they came out, but I've really fallen in love with her adult mysteries, that I had to read all of her books, and I'm enjoying them all so much!

Kelsey hasn't had it easy growing up-she's the product of rape that happened while her mom was held captive, and her mom has raised her to fear the outside world, basically. But when she comes home and her mom's gone, well, that's not a good situation!

Watching her investigate, trying to find her mom, while also worried that they might be after her, that was so entertaining to read! I'm glad that there was Ryan, because she needed his skills, and they were a pretty good team!

Oh, but how things ended? Yeah, Megan Miranda crafts such entertaining, engaging reads, and I had to keep reading until the last page! I do wish that we had gotten a few more answers, to understand what had happened, but all in all, I'm happy with this book and how it ended. 

This was a fantastic read, and I'm one book closer to catching up with all the books that Megan Miranda has published! 

Author: Megan Miranda
Read: October 12th, 2023 
Source: Own
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really fantastic, and it's a SAC 2023 Book!  
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
Published: May 24th 2016 

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars