Review: Finding Amanda

Finding Amanda by Robin Patchen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars 💛💛💛

This book was packed full of building suspense, and two people who loved each other but due to emotional trauma and no proper communication/reactions, is struggling with a broken marriage.

I connected a bit more to Mark, I think mainly because he was the Christian and fighting for the marriage, where Amanda just wanted to give up. As the story develops, you understand both’s brokenness more and why they do/did/reacted the way they did.

I would definitely only recommend this story to adult readers. The emotional trauma Amanda had to deal with was grave and there were two scenes which was a bit too descriptive which younger readers and sensitive readers might find disturbing. I could have done without the detail which is why I rated it 3 instead of 4. I think the author added this detail to try and portray just what Amanda went through, but I would have preferred a flash back with just what happened instead of being there with Amanda while it happened. The second scene was a bit more in this line and more manageable to read.

The build up of the suspense was on a slower pace with a speedy ending and I did guess the twist at the end.

This psychological thriller was very good and made me think what manipulative people is capable of.

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About the book:

Chef and popular blogger Amanda Johnson hopes publishing her memoir will provide healing and justice. Her estranged husband, contractor and veteran soldier Mark Johnson, tries to talk her out of it, fearing the psychiatrist who seduced her when she was a teen might return to silence her.

But Amanda doesn’t need advice, certainly not from her judgmental soon-to-be ex-husband. Her overconfidence makes her vulnerable when she travels out of town and runs into the abuser from her past. A kind stranger comes to her rescue and offers her protection.

Now Mark must safeguard his wife both from the fiend who threatens her life and from the stranger who threatens their marriage.