🎧ARC Review: Behind Her Lives by Briana Cole

Genre ~ mystery, family drama

Featuring ~ dual timeline, suicide references, miscarriage, secrets, lies, drama, step-siblings

POV ~ dual 1st & 3rd person

Release date ~ October 25, 2022

Page count ~ 272

Audio length ~ 9 hours 28 minutes

My rating ~ 3.5⭐

My review:

Deven thinks she’s at the morgue to identify her sisters body, but it turns out not to be her. But where is Kennedy then, if this dead girl is not her. As she investigates her sister’s disappearance she slowly starts to realize that maybe she doesn’t know her as well as she thought she did. There’s the added fact that they’re step-siblings, with the same mom and different father’s, that causes some drama.

We have the before and present timeline, and childhood diary entries, that keep the story flowing along nicely. I felt invested and wanted to know what was up with Kennedy. I wasn’t overly in love with Deven, or many of the characters, but the epilogue was great!

Narrated by Diana Blue for 9 hours and 28 minutes, easy to follow at 2x. She did a nice job.

*Thanks to Tantor Audio, the author and NetGalley for the advance audiobook. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

Secrets, suspense, and a missing sister—who may not want to be found—are at the center of Brianna Cole’s latest enthralling multicultural drama. Will appeal to fans of psychological suspense, gritty drama, and readers of De’Nesha Diamond, Kiki Swinson, Saundra, Wahida Clark, Ashley & JaQuavis, Victoria Christopher Murray, and Shelly Ellis.

“That’s not my sister.” Overwhelmed by shock and relief, those are the only words Deven can muster when she is called to identify the body of a suicide victim. A body she was informed was her sister, Kennedy. But as she stares at the lifeless stranger, she’s filled with questions: Who is this woman? Why was Deven listed as family? And most important, where is Kennedy? Her intuition tells her just one thing: this can’t be a total coincidence.

Desperate to put the pieces together, Deven launches her own investigation. Soon, she finds herself tangled in a web of secrets and lies so twisted that it blurs the lines between fact and fiction. And between the sister she thought she knew and the one who seems to have many hidden, dangerous lives. But only Kennedy would have the answers to increasingly urgent questions. Just one possibility is clear: Kennedy isn’t missing. Maybe she just doesn’t want to be found. And maybe you can never truly know another person. Even your own sister.

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