What You Left Behind

by Samantha Hayes

[Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews]

Fond of:

I read Until Your Mine last year and thought it was a great, original thriller and therefore was excited to see a sequel. What You Left Behind establishes another twisted thriller in the beginnings of a heart-pounding series.

Samantha Hayes kept me guessing whodoneit. There were several creepy, weird, it could be them characters and thus keeps you on your toes.

I really like Lorraine, she seems like an average Josephine and therefore makes the story engaging.

Not Fond of:

The ending was frenetic like someone with ADHD and found it difficult to concentrate, because of that I'm not sure how I feel about it.

I wish I could say that all the characters were as well developed as Lorraine and her sister Jo, but with several of them being twilight zone weird I had a hard time caring about their outcome and despite the fact that some held a noose it was a notch in the knot for me.

Final Thoughts:
I didn't find What You Left Behind as powerful as Until Your Mine. This may be because I didn't think secondary characters were as well developed in the sequel. Although, despite its flaws What You Left Behind was a decent second novel to an interesting series and could see myself reading the next installement as Hayes does keep you hanging until the very end.