Forgotten Secret: A Psychological Suspense Thriller

I was given a copy of this book as an ARC and it is the first introduction i have to the author and the series.

I enjoyed the fact that there is a recap to get a reader up to speed to continue with the story, and while I'm sure there is entirely more context by reading the first book in the series, the recap feels sufficient to step right into book two with minimal disconnects.

This story is a psychological thriller, and has a lot of twists and turns as you would expect. While there are many original elements to the story and characters, a thriller with a main character who has amnesia and needs to remember their past is not one of them. I did appreciate that the author took the time to thoroughly research the condition to make her story as factually accurate though. That said, the pace was good, but the writing style was a little different for me and was a little hard to follow at certain points. An example of this would be a character does something like turns a car into a parking lot, then the story jumps to give background that at one time said character was offered employment with the establishment that the parking lot belongs to but they declined the offer, and the immediate next line is unrelated to the blurb. There's a few instances like this where the positioning of information, while potentially valuable knowledge, just seems disjointed or doesn't flow well IMO.

Overall, the story was enjoyable, builds up to a cliffhanger and leaves readers primed for the next book in the series.