Monday 8 November 2021

The Girl She Was Before by Jess Kitching

Synopsis:

Powerful, packed full of gruelling details that will linger with you long after the book has finished.

Nat lives a picture-perfect life, but it wasn’t always this way. A victim of horrific bullying when she was a teenager, Nat will do anything to keep distance between the girl she was before and the woman she is now.

But when her best friend is murdered and people begin to point their finger at her, Nat’s new life quickly unravels.

To Nat, it’s no surprise the crime happened at the same time as the return of her biggest tormentor, Chrissy Summers. A woman with a violent streak who destroyed lives when she was younger and isn’t afraid to do it again.

Face to face with the past she so firmly keeps behind her, Nat’s sanity wavers as her determination to reveal Chrissy as the monster she knows her as rises to dangerous heights.

The question is, can Nat prove Chrissy is a killer, or will Chrissy get to Nat and her family before she has the chance?

Review:

Oh my goodness. What a book. It’s modern, though-provoking and shocking, dramatic and scarily close to reality and what people really can be like.

Nat seems to have it all, but her past is still haunting her. She moved back to Coral Bay and gained friendships from the very people that have made her teenage years an absolute hell and she is praying every day that her sunny life continues.

That is until two of her new found best friends end up ran off the door with one dead and one paralysed forever. With her worst enemy Chrissy back in town at the same town, Nat believes she is behind her friend’s death and that Nat and her family will be next. Little does she know. And in the meantime the fingers start pointing to Nat unravelling the perfect life she has worked so hard to create.

This is the perfect book highlighting the impact of persistent bullying and how it destroys lives and keeps on destroying lives well after people part ways. It’s been put into a fabulous book and what an ending!

Thank you to TBConFB for access to this fab book.

Rating: 5/5

Available to pro-order from:

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