Alexandria Gracie has escaped her parents, who have been shot dead after keeping Lex and her siblings in abusive captivity. Not necessarily a huge con of the book, but she kinda just breezed back in after literally experiencing the worst moments of her life there.

This in a way is counter-productive, as while it is an effective way of telling the story and evoking Alexandra’s perspective, it is not engaging in the slightest. The writing is highly polished and there are little glimpses over the piece that create genuine intrigue, but that feeling never lasts for long enough for it to grab your undivided attention.In the first, Follow Her Home, we are introduced to Juniper Song, a Korean-American “half-employed” twentysomething from Los Angeles. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her older brother and four younger siblings. Special thanks to NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP Viking for sharing incredible arc with me in exchange for my honest opinions.

The second half of Girl A was written in the spare bedroom of my flat, or on the notes section of my phone on buses and tubes.Luckily for me, I’m into true crime, memoirs and character driven books, all of which describe this much better than the thriller/suspense/mystery tags I’ve seen thrown around. She believed —with work and time—that is was possible to discard parts of the past, like an old season’s coat that you never should have bought.