Marin Montgomery

"From the outside looking in, Sibley Sawyer has a perfect life. As a successful attorney, she's worked hard to get to the top of her game--but when her personal and professional lives implode, Sibley looks for a way to turn the page. Unable to shake the tragic circumstances that caused her to flee her rural Midwestern hometown, Sibley wants nothing more than to reunite with her estranged mother, Deborah, and bury their past tensions. But as she reenters the life she left behind, she realizes her mother isn't the same person she remembers, and she's not the same daughter either. As both women struggle to piece together a tangled web of deceit and lies, and the shocking circumstances that caused Sibley to leave in the first place, it becomes clear there are secrets rooted deeper than either mother or daughter could ever have imagined"--

The Imposter

Taylor

I genuinely enjoyed reading the Imposter. I do love an unreliable narrator, and this is a thriller full of twists and turns, Montgomery keeps the reader guessing. I love when a book can keep me on my toes and keep me guessing, every time I thought I had something figured out, Montgomery would throw something new in and I realized that I didn't know half of what I thought I did.

However, I found it hard to connect with the two main characters, their complex backstories are so full of lies and deceit that I didn't find anything to connect to. This was exacerbated by both character's incredible loose grasp on reality, I found it very hard to follow their motivations and it made the story more confusing. 

While I still enjoyed the read, there were a lot of elements that made the story quite hard to follow.

This ARC was provided to me from NetGalley and the publishers in exchange for my honest review.

danielle bush

This book follows Sibley and her mother Deborah. We begin the book with Deborahs perspective, and we kind of know right away that she going to be an unreliable narrator. Then we switch to Sibley just as her world starts falling apart. She is being accused of having a dating profile up by her husband, and her law office seems to thinking that she was having an affair with one of her clients.. Added to the fact that she seems to be an alcoholic and her husband and the people she works for decided to send her off to rehab. Instead of going she decides that she needs to go see her mom who she hasn't seen in like 10 plus years.. 

As soon as they come together in the same house even more weirdness starts.. Both Deborah and Sibley seem to be blacking out, Deborah especially seems to be spiraling and getting worse every day.. Now Sibley is trying to overcome her own issues, figure out why her mom acting super bizarre, and shes trying to learn some dark secrets from both her and her mothers past. 

For most of this book, I was pretty confused as to what was actually supposed to be going on.. but at about maybe 70% or so things definitely started to become clearer.. Even with being confused I couldn't put it down.. I just had to see what the ending was going to be.. 

There were some unexpected twists, that had me saying wtf? and while I did peg who was behind it all I was wrong about the motives..

The Imposter

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