I enjoyed how I was never quite sure who to trust as part of the story was like a spider web of lies, each woven tightly only to reveal yet another layer of lies underneath. I thought this story was tightly plotted with the surprises coming at just the right time.įranks memory slowly begins to return, Lily meets people who can help solve the mystery that is her husband and the events in the past unfold, revealing their connection to the present day. The tone of the story started out lightly, shifted to a bit darker, and then to downright ominous as we delve into some serious subject matter. They were so compelling, well-fleshed out, and multi-layered that I ended up feeling as though I know them personally. Now I will say that this wasn’t a particularly action-based story but rather delved deeply into the development of the characters, which worked really well for me. It was so much fun trying to guess how these stories would eventually come together. I loved this method of storytelling, and I found myself immediately engrossed in each of the three plotlines as each of them slowly increased the suspense throughout the course of the novel. So these are the three storylines and the multiple POVs of Alice, Lily, and Gray, and we move back and forth as they become closer and closer to intertwining.

And Gray isn’t surprised when things take a dark turn. They meet a young man named Mark Tate who’s in town visiting his Aunt and who develops an obsessive interest in Kirsty, which troubles Gray. Then the story moves twenty-three years in the past where we’re introduced to the Ross family, specifically their two teenagers, Gray and Kirsty, who are on summer vacation with their parents. They’d only been married for a couple of weeks when one day, he doesn’t come home from work, so Lily calls the police.Īfter she brings them her husband’s passport, she’s shocked to learn that the passport was purchased on the dark web, and according to police, her husband, as she’d known him, doesn’t exist. Meanwhile, in a London suburb, we’re introduced to Lily Monrose, a recently-married young bride who, originally from Ukraine, moved to London to marry her husband, Carl. Against her own better judgment, she invites him to stay with her until he gets his memory back and nicknames him Frank for the time being. He’d been there for hours and has no coat and no idea what is name is or why he’s there. One day she spots a stray man who is sitting on the beach near her house and staring at the ocean.

I Found You follows a single mother and artist named Alice living on a British seaside.

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