Book Review - She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica

Title: She’s Not Sorry
Author: Mary Kubica
Genre: Thriller/ Mystery
Published: 2024
 
Description: Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below.
 
But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why?
 
Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time, she mistakenly lets herself get too close until she’s deeply entangled in Caitlin’s and her family’s lives. Only when it’s too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims.
 
Review: Before I started reading “She’s Not Sorry”, I had only read one other book by Mary Kubica: “Local Woman Missing”. I really liked that book, but I love her newest release!
 
Meghan Michaels is an ICU-nurse and a single mom, who’s recently divorced. One day, new patient Caitlin arrives at the hospital, who is in a coma and suffering from a severe brain injury. Where Meghan normally succeeds in staying emotionally detached from her patients, she is pulled into Caitlin’s and her family’s life. Questioning what really happened to her and maybe somebody did this to her.
 
The book is split up in two parts. When I was reading the first half of the book, I felt a lot was happening. It felt a bit all over the place and I had no clue why these random events were happening. With a mid-way twist, that totally caught me off-guard, the pieces of the puzzle starting falling into place. And that made the book so much better. The first half started making more sense.
 
“She’s Not Sorry” is an easy to read book, you can fly through it, as did I. The story has tension and raises so many questions, that you will get answers to eventually. There are many twists and turns and I was surprised. This book is impossible to put down.
 
Meghan is an interesting character to read from, we follow the story through her POV. You can relate to her at the start of the book, with her being a single mom, working hard to provide for her daughter. You do question some decisions she makes and because the characters still stays a bit on the surface, you never really understand why she becomes so fixated on Nat, an old school friend that she hasn’t seen for 20 years. And the fact that Meghan is constantly concerned about her daughter Sienna, when there is really no reason for it. Making you believe that something bad is going to happen to her.
 
I really loved reading “She’s Not Sorry”, the first chapter sucks you in. The first half of the book doesn’t make a lot of sense because so much is going on. But once you’ve reached the second half, you are in for a treat. So many surprises.
 
Rating: 4,5/ 5

Book Review - Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

Title: Local Woman Missing
Series: -
Author: Mary Kubica
 
Description: Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold.
Now, 11 years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find....

Review: When local woman Meredith and her six-year-old daughter Delilah go missing, their community is rocked by fear and suspicion. 
Eleven year later, Delilah returns. Everyone wants to know what really happened to her. But there are secrets hidden in the past, that nobody is prepared for. 
“Local Woman Missing” is a thriller full of tension and mystery. The story jumps in time and between character’s perspectives. We learn how, eleven years before, doula Meredith helps pregnant Shelby Tebow, who, not longer after delivering her baby, disappears when jogging. Later Meredith and her daughter go missing themselves. 
The story starts of amazing, with the story of an abducted child. When she is reunited with her family, everyone starts thinking about her mother Meredith who went missing and was never found. Another case is that of Shelby Tebow, whose body is found and Meredith and Shelby have connection, since they knew each other. 
As the story develops, you realize that nothing is as easy as it seems. There are several red herrings, which make you suspect the wrong person. It’s a very easy to follow story and a real page turner. 
The ending was a bit far-fetched, which is the only reason I didn’t give the book a five star rating. But overall, “Local Woman Missing” is a book that will be hard to put away once you start reading it.

 
Rating: 4,5/ 5