Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
Release Date: March 17, 2020
Read from: 11/25/19-12/8/19
Format: Print (Owned- ARC)
My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Goodreads Rating: 4.03 stars
This book took me a bit, only because I had some library books that needed to be read in the meantime. It’s been sitting on my coffee table waiting for me to get back at it for weeks. I received this from the publisher via a Goodreads giveaway as an early reviewers copy (ARC). When I received it I read the back and was instantly intrigued. It was to be about a young woman who’s mother has abused her her entire life. Making her sick and making her child and the rest of the world believe she just had a sickly child and that she was really just a doting mother who get dealt a bad hand in motherhood. It isn’t until her daughter, Rose Gold is an adult that her mother’s crimes are finally figured out and she is sent to jail, with her daughter testifying against her, for five years. Rose Gold doesn’t speak to her mother Patty for that entire time, until her last year leading up to her release.
Our story begins with Rose Gold and her new baby Adam picking up her mother, Patty, from jail. Why on earth would she do this? And then bring her home to her house to live with her, after everything she’s done?
The story begins to get sinister though, from the moment Patty is brought to her daughters home, which happens to be the exact same one she grew up in as a kid and she feels nothing but a bad energy and fear the moment she returns to that house. She’s even sent to sleep in her childhood bedroom, where as a kid, she remembers hiding for her life's dangers. She keeps this to herself for the most part, but Rose Gold seems to notice. Something doesn’t seem right, with either of them, and you can’t quite tell what, or who, may wind up being sinister here. Will Patty try to revert back to her old ways and hurt her daughter? Or worse yet, the baby? Is Rose Gold actually trying to hurt her mother now?
The story is told from both of their points of view, but Rose Gold’s is told from the past, coming forward in time over the last five years, as she learned to love like not only a normal adult, but a normal person in society, on her own. The present tense is told only from Patty’s perspective, as she tries to navigate her new life outside of jail, with a town that wants nothing more but to see her gone.
This book is certainly a twisted one and out of all the books lately that I’ve read that are supposed to be such great thrillers, I honestly think this one is the best. I knew something was up but I couldn’t tell what. And it’s all revealed in the end, with just the smallest feeling at the end that I wanted to know mode. I think this book is going to be well talked about in the book world once it’s released in March. I definitely hope it gets in the hands of many readers!
Other Books Read So Far This Year
I've read the crap out of these Caribbean guidebooks the last few months, in preparation for our six island Caribbean cruise next month. I've never been on a cruise before, and honestly had no intentions of seeking one out, but with some convincing I decided to give it a go and I'm super excited.
I bought 4 books total, all for different reasons. Couldn't find one guidebook that had all the aspects I was looking for! I love the Insight Guides for the details and history. I always go with those. But Lonely Planet had an awesome cruise highlight guide that will definitely be coming on the boat with us. It gives you ideas of things to do with very limited time at the ports. And National Geographic I liked because it was not JUST the Lesser Antilles and had some history and maps that I liked. The other one I had is from Fodor's, which will also be coming on the boat with us. It't not so much about things to do and history as heavily focused on restaurants and accommodations. I'll be bringing it along solely for the restaurant options all laid out in one place.
We Met in December by Rosie Curtis
Released: November 5, 2019
Read from: 12/28/19-1/6/19
Format: Print (Library)
My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Goodreads Rating: 3.45 stars
No comments:
Post a Comment