She's Mine by C.S. Lewis
Published: 5th March 2019
Publisher: Aria
Pages: 4848
Available on Kindle
Rating: 4/5
Blurb
She was never mine to
lose…
When Scarlett falls
asleep on a Caribbean beach she awakes to her worst nightmare – Katie is gone.
With all fingers pointed to her Scarlett must risk everything to clear her
name.
As Scarlett begins to
unravel the complicated past of Katie’s mother she begins to think there’s more
to Katie’s disappearance than meets the eye. But who would want to steal a
child? And how did no-one see anything on the small island?
Review
She’s Mine is the debut novel of Claire S. Lewis. While
Scarlett is sleeping on the beach, Katie the little girl Scarlett is supposed
to be watching goes missing. With Scarlett’s involvement with the disappearance
coming under suspicion, Scarlett knows she’ll have to work out what really
happened to Katie herself and as she begins to unravel the mysteries
surrounding Katie and her mother, she’s not sure what to believe anymore.
This is a twisty psychological thriller which is split
between two narratives, the present day and the past. It was not a book I
instantly loved as I felt the start was a bit slow and I felt the story lacked
urgency which I would expect with a missing child story, the police investigation
was very lack-lustre and clumsy. After a steady start the story and the pace
increased to create a more dramatic storyline which had me gripped until the
shocking ending.
Scarlett was not the most likeable of characters, she often
used information she had to her own advantage and you could never be totally
sure she was being completely honest, but I think that’s the beauty of this
novel is working out who is telling the truth, something I changed my mind about throughout
the book and I found kept me reading.
The best part of the story for me was the narrative from the
past which explored the relationship between the twins through key moments in
their lives linked to photographs. I found their relationship fascinating and
wanted to find out more, more than I wanted to find out what happened to little
Katie.
About the Author
Claire Simone Lewis studied philosophy, French literature and
international relations at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge before
starting her career in aviation law with a City law firm and later as an
in-house lawyer at Virgin Atlantic Airways. More recently, she
turned to writing psychological suspense, taking courses at the Faber
Academy. She’s Mine is her first
novel. Born in Paris, she’s bilingual and lives in Surrey with her
family.
Follow Claire:
Twitter:
@CSLewisWrites
Facebook:
@CSLewisWrites
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