Mimi's Bookcase

Synopsis: At thirty-four Sara Gallagher is finally happy with her life, but there is one big question that still haunts her - who are her birth parents?
Finally ready to hear the truth, Sara discovers that some questions are better left unanswered: her biological father is an infamous serial killer, a wanted man who has been slaying women every summer for over thirty years.
And now he knows he has a daughter.
Sara soon realises that the only thing worse than finding out your real father is a killer is him finding out about you...


My Opinion: an interesting thriller.
How could I resist such a synopsis when I love thrillers especially those about serial killers?! Usually, the plot revolves around the police trying to stop a killer. In Never Knowing, it is about an ordinary woman discovering that her father is a serial killer getting in contact with him. It is quite an original approach. I don't remember ever reading or even watching something where the focus is on a serial killer's children so I find the idea very interesting.

However, I was expecting something scary especially with that last sentence from the synopsis, and it wasn't. Serial killers scare me more than any monster because they are real, they exist. Unfortunately, I didn't feel terrified of John and wasn't even scared for his daughter.
Despite that, the book was truly absorbing. I could read it for hours, wondering what would happen next, what Sara would discover, what John would do, etc. . Without spoiling, I can also say that it was thought-provoking though I won't tell you what kind or it wouldn't be fun for you.
Moreover, I liked that each chapter is named "Session" and starts with Sara talking to her psychiatrist and basically telling her what happened. The author had a very nice idea.

This was my first novel by Chevy Stevens and you can be sure I am going to read "Still Missing" which is her debut novel and apparently a very good one according to the critics.


To summarize: an interesting and original thriller for all the fans of the genre though it could have been scarier in my opinion.