In Another Life by C C Hunter

In Another Life (Shadow Falls)

by C C Hunter

From New York Times bestselling author C. C. Hunter comes a new YA thriller about a girl who learns that she may have been kidnapped as a child, and must race to uncover the truth about her past before she winds up a victim.

Chloe was three years old when she became Chloe Holden, but her adoption didn’t scar her, and she’s had a great life. Now, fourteen years later, her loving parents’ marriage has fallen apart and her mum has moved them to Joyful, Texas. Starting twelfth grade as the new kid at school, everything Chloe loved about her life is gone. And feelings of déjà vu from her early childhood start haunting her.

When Chloe meets Cash Colton she feels drawn to him, as though they're kindred spirits. Until Cash tells her the real reason he sought her out: Chloe looks exactly like the daughter his foster parents lost years ago, and he’s determined to figure out the truth.

As Chloe and Cash delve deeper into her adoption, the more things don’t add up, and the more strange things start happening. Why is Chloe’s adoption a secret that people would kill for?

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Chloe’s life turned upside down last year when her parents split up. Causing Chloe and her mom to move back to Joyful, Texas. Being the new kid in high school is not fun especially in a small town where everyone has always known everyone else. The good news is that Chloe’s next door befriends her and helps her adjust to her new life. She also ends up getting help from an unsuspecting source Chase. Chase is a foster child and also feels like he knows Chloe somehow but he doesn’t want to bring it up until he has answers.
In Another Life is told in multiple perspectives of Chloe, Chase, and a person we meet later on in the story.

Overall I really enjoyed In Another Life. Chloe and Chase’s storylines were fascinating to me. We have Chase who is a foster kid and has a lot of guilt about things he had no control over in his childhood. Then we have Chloe who up until recently was from a happy family. The more they investigate Chloe’s adoption, and the more they learn the more heartbreaking it becomes.
I’m not going to lie both Chase and Chloe annoyed me at times because of how secretive they were about certain things. But I also get why they were secretive about those things and how they thought they would hurt the other person if they told the truth. This type of situation is a difficult one for an adult to deal with, so for two high schoolers trying to figure this out mostly on their own, it’s got a bit much at times. So many different emotions are involved in this story from Chase’s guilt about things, to Chloe having to come to terms with the reality of her adoption its a lot.
The mystery part of this book wasn’t that big of a mystery in my opinion. It was fairly obvious from the beginning in my opinion because of certain things. The only thing that was really scary or mysterious in my opinion was the part surrounding how she came to be adopted. That got scary the more we learned about it.
I do think this was an interesting book and I liked how the whole focus wasn’t just constantly on her adoption. We have the side story of her adoptive parents drama, and Chloe’s relationship with her parents, and Chase. Chase’s storyline was one that I also really liked because of who his foster parents were and how he had big plans for his future and how he wanted to be better than his bio father was.
I can’t wait to read more by C.C. Hunter in the future!

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