The Winter Sister by Megan Collins

Hello Dewey Readers!


I received an ARC of Megan Collins' The Winter Sister from Baker and Taylor.  (Library perk.)  This book is set to be published in February 2019 and opens with a murder. 

Persephone used to sneak out of her bedroom window to meet her boyfriend.  Her sister, Sylvie, used to leave the window open so that Persephone could return home in the middle of the night.  Persephone always comes home with bruises, which Sylvie believes are from Persephone's boyfriend, and Sylvie paints beautiful images over these bruises to hide them. But one day Sylvie gets sick of the lies and shuts the window behind Persephone so she'll be forced to use the front door and thus expose what she has been doing.  Only Sylvie's plan backfires and Persephone goes back out only to never return again.  

So, I'm not a big fan of thrillers because they always seem a little bit far fetched, but this one I liked.  Here's why:

• It tackles grief 
• It touched upon mortality from illness 
• It discusses drug abuse and addiction 
• It also exposes how sometimes justice can't always be served even when everyone knows who the killer is because of "evidence"    

That being said, while I did enjoy reading this book, I did not enjoy the ending. Without giving too much away, I felt that the ending came too abruptly and from basically out of nowhere.  Maybe that's just how it goes with novels of this genre.  

So Dewey Readers, I leave you with a rating of 4 out of 5 Coffee Beans!

Until the next read!

~Jessica