Blindsided
Marguerite Ashton
(The Forgotten Daughter, #1)
Publication date: July 13th 2020
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult
Diagnosed with depression, Lexi Archer prefers to continue outpatient treatment. But someone else has other plans.
BlindSided tells the story of Lexi Archer, an eighteen-year-old woman who wakes up in a hospital bed, handcuffed to the rail, and realizes she doesn’t remember what happened the night before.
After being released from the hospital, Lexi’s transferred to the Milwaukee County Jail, where she’s informed about her pending charges for first-degree murder.
Intent on proving she’s innocent, Lexi places a phone call to her stepsister asking for her help. As Lexi gets closer to the truth, she unravels ugly secrets about her dead mother that will change her life forever.
My thoughts:
Blindsided is a quick novella length story about Lexi. She wakes up in the hospital, handcuffed to the bed with no memory of what happened. She is accused of murdering her aunt. I thought this was an interesting book. It's not really as much of a thriller as the synopsis makes it seem. It is more of a character study of an abused girl on the brink of adulthood and how it drives her depression. It also highlights how all of the adults around her failed her with their abuse, neglect and family secrets. There were a few times when I wasn't too clear on the timeline of events. But these are things that could be fixed in a re-edit. Overall, it is something worth giving a try.
Author Bio:
When Marguerite Ashton was in her twenties, she took up acting but realized she preferred to work behind the camera, writing crime fiction. A few years later, she married an IT Geek and settled down with her role as wife, mom, and writer!
Her blog, Criminal Lines: Settled Writer Past 40 is her outlet while building dollhouses and plotting out her next book.
Marguerite lives in Wisconsin and enjoys RVing.
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