My mind is completely blown. When I first started this book, I was beginning to wonder if I fell down the rabbit hole with Alice. I was scratching my head wondering if I was going to be able to read this book. Strange does not even begin to describe it. Then suddenly things got exciting, and I did not come up for air until I closed the final page. Now I sit here in completely awe at how this author captured my imagination and pulled me so far into this story.

Penny is definitely not your normal 21 year old girl. She is highly intellectual with an off the charts IQ. She has an eidetic memory, which means she never forgets anything she reads or sees. After a tumble down the steps of her home at age 7 and spending a week in a coma, she woke up to this new person. She has been sheltered her entire life, only staying at home with her mother or spending time at the special school she has been a part of for many years. Her only regret is that her father left her while she was in a coma. Her only contact with him is that he sends her a card every year on her birthday. On her 21st birthday, she decides she is going to find him. Penny, though highly intelligent, is not equipped to handle the world on her own. This is when the story gets good.

You are taken on a ride of epic proportions cross country to find a dad she has not seen since that fateful day. You will be wondering just how much trouble can one girl get herself into when bam something else will happen. However, Penny is not someone you want to play chess with. She is so far above the rest of humanity that she can see six moves ahead. She does not have the real world knowledge that the rest of us do., but you do not want to take her on in an IQ test. The ending was jaw dropping. I am still sitting here wondering what just happened. My only complaint and trigger for this book was the use of a four letter word that was used way too much, in my personal opinion, but this book is still worthy of my five stars because the plotline is fabulous.

Thank you to Poisoned Pen Press and NetGalley for this ARC. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I enjoyed the short chapters, but the book read a little choppy and was sometimes all over the place. The plot had some good potential, but I don’t feel it was executed well.

This book did not work for me for several reasons.

Traumatic brain injuries lead to mysterious abilities

Mom pushed her down the stairs (at 7 mind you) yet she takes care of her mom

That was all within the first 50 pages and I felt that I had whiplash from everything going on. Just what?

The writing was also a bit odd with a lot of inner monologue happening which was frustrating and distracting.

I love action packed thrillers, but I didn’t think I was getting into a fantasy or sci-fi novel and just wasn’t prepared for how outlandish this was.

While I appreciate the opportunity to read this one, it just wasn’t for me.

Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for the e-arc. All thoughts are my own.

I will not be posting this review outside of NG.

EXCERPT: July 13, 1987
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Monday

I remember everything.
This isn't an exaggeration. As the few who know me would confirm, I'm not prone to hyperbole. And when I say I remember everything, I'm not talking about the events of this morning. Or yesterday. Or the whole of last week.
I remember everything since October 7, 1973.

ABOUT 'THE FATHER SHE WENT TO FIND': A road trip to find closure… or a reckless chase that could turn deadly?

Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant--one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there's one mystery Penny's never been able to solve: why did her father leave when she was in a coma at age seven, and where is he now?

On Penny's twenty-first birthday, she receives a card in the mail from him, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday card is different. For the first time ever, there's a return address. And a goodbye.

Penny doesn't know the world beyond her mother's house and the special school she's attended since her unusual abilities revealed themselves, but the mystery of her father's disappearance becomes her new obsession. For the first time ever, she decides to leave home, to break free of everything that has kept her safe and use her gifts to answer the questions that have always eluded her. What Penny doesn't realize is she might not be able to outsmart a world far more complicated and dangerous than she'd ever imagined...

MY THOUGHTS: If there is one thing The Father She Went to Find by Carter Wilson reinforces, it's that intelligence doesn't always equal common sense.

The entire narrative is from Penny's point of view. A savant, she is determined to find her father who disappeared while she was aged seven and in a coma. The only clues she has to go on are the birthday cards she has received each year from different locations and a treasure map relating to a road trip the two of them took when she was aged six.

Penny hasn't really lived in the 'real world' since she woke from her coma with her new abilities. She has been isolated and protected in 'The Institute' (a nod to Stephen King?) only returning home to check on her alcoholic mother. She has no friends and the only person she feels close to is a doctor at the Institute - that is, until she meets Travis.

I have to admit to having been quite fascinated by this story. I didn't always like it, but it did fascinate me. It's a real mix of a tender coming-of-age story with a crime thriller with bad guys, car chases, guns and bodies. Surprisingly, it mostly works.

The ending isn't going to please everyone. Personally, I liked it.

I recommend you go into this read with no expectations. I went in expecting it to be a certain type of read, and it was nothing like I expected. This may have slightly affected my rating, and this is something I can think on and adjust.

I was lucky enough to receive both a digital and an audio ARC of The Father She Went to Find by Carter Wilson, and I honestly preferred the written to the audio. This is no reflection on the skills of narrator Gina Rogers who did a perfectly adequate job of the narration. It is just a personal preference with this book.

⭐⭐⭐.5

#TheFatherSheWenttoFind #NetGalley

THE AUTHOR: Born in New Mexico in 1970, Carter grew up primarily in Los Angeles before attending Cornell University in New York. He lived in Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Miami before moving to Boulder, Colorado in 1996. Throughout his life, Carter has journeyed the globe for both work and pleasure, and his travels have been a constant source of inspiration in his fiction.
Carter’s writing career began on a spring day in 2003, when an exercise to ward off boredom during a continuing-education class evolved into a 400-page manuscript. Since that day, Carter has been constantly writing.
Carter lives in Erie, Colorado in a Victorian house that is spooky but isn’t haunted…yet.

DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Poisoned Pen Press and Dreamscape Media via NetGalley for providing both a digital and audio ARC of The Father She Went to Find written by Carter Wilson and narrated by Gina Rogers for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.

The Father she Went to Find by Carter Wilson is due for publication 2nd April 2024.

This is going to be hard to explain but this is one of the few books that would have been better as a a movie. I say this because it would have been better with some way to move the story along that didn’t concentrate on this main character’s inner monologue and conversations with a dad she doesn’t remember but somehow has elevated in her mind. The story was good. It read very much like a first draft of a very young writer. I am not sure how to explain it better than that. This would have been one of those oddball on the road meets crazy people on a journey. Almost like Poker Face with a teenager who is not at all world wise.

Thank you so much to Poisioned Pen Press for the free book!

I was absolutely HOOKED on this from the moment I started reading this one! The first person narration caught my attention instantly and really made this impossible to put down. I basically read the the entire thing straight through.

I can't say too much without giving anything away and think it's best if readers go in blind, but suffice it to say things did not go the way I expected them to. When the major twist came, I was absolutely surprised and flabbergasted! The whole premise of this one felt fresh and original!

As a Wisconsinite, this gets bonus points for taking place in Eau Claire, WI!

I will say there was way too much cursing for my taste it almost felt like every other sentence and it became a distraction after a certain point.

Overall, I think this will be a huge hit!

3..5 stars rounded to four for GR

This will be available for purchase on April 5, 2024.

The Father She Went to Find by Carter Wilson is a hard hitting, razor-sharp, and original thrillery mystery novel jam packed with angst, brokenness, giftedness and tenacity.

Penny had a serious fall when she was seven. The trauma caused her to become one of only seventy five savants in the world with incredibly special skills. She has a love/hate relationship with her father who she feels compelled to find. People in her life have a tendency to leave which weighs heavily on her psyche. Rather than feel sorry for herself she takes matters into her own hands. Her journey leads to places and situations she wouldn't have imagined, some very dark.

The writing is clever but the brief sentences, though effective, didn't connect with me. Additionally, the grit isn't my personal wheelhouse. But the premise is fantastic. I really like the savant information, something rarely...if ever...encountered in books. The characters are well written with excellent insight into human nature.

My sincere thank you to Poisoned Pen Press and NetGalley for providing me with a digital copy of this unique novel.

The Father She Went to Find written by Carter Wilson had me completely and utterly captivated. The synopsis had me intrigued but actually reading the story blew me away and Carter Wilson is immediately on to my favourite authors list

Penny is unique, so unique, she has been in an institute for the intellectually gifted since she came around from a coma. Penny has an idetic memory that goes beyond the usual understanding of the term. She remembers every single iota of every single event, and everything she has seen or learned about for her entire life. Just not about the accident that landed her in a coma. The accident for which she blames her mother, and which caused her father to disappear

All Penny knows is the institute. It is safe there, with her Doctor, until he calls her one day, letting er know he has a new job. This is at the core of a chain of events, whereby Penny decides to break out of the institute, just before she turns 21. The real world however, is a total eclipse from the institute and when Peny is witness to a double murder in a comedy club, life gets even more complicated than it already is

This book is as unique as Penny is. The characters within are not those we would usually encounter, but that does not detract in any way from their plausibility in the context of the storyline and with their connection ot real events in history. Carter has written a compelling novel that is all at once action packed, but is also empathetic. This is very clear with Penny's introspection and storyline as well as the stories of each of the supporting cast (my favourite scene has to be either the conversation with the assassin in the diner which gives a fantastic perception of intelligence vs wisdom) and the final chapters, which are brief, but beyond a plot twist, a plot spiral and splintering shards that are so very well written.

Whether audiobook or print, I absolutely recommend this book, stunning

Thank you to Netgalley, Poisoned Pen Press and the author Carter Wilson for this stellar ARC. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own

This was a really good book. Talk about an adventure! I enjoyed the story although I found it a little odd how trusting people can be when they themselves trying to keep their own secrets.

This was a very interesting story featuring Penny, who might have died when she was seven. She did not, but when she woke up, she had abilities that made her a savant. Her father left soon after she was injured, and the only contact she has with him is a birthday card that arrives once a year.
The card he sends her on her 21st birthday, makes her decide to leave the sheltered world she has inhabited, and find her father. She meets good and bad people along the way, and learns what it means to live in the real world.
The ending hit me out of left field. I’m still undecided whether I loved it or hated it. But I do appreciate when a book stays with me for days and makes me reconsider everything that happens.

This was a unique story with complex and interesting characters. I enjoyed the interaction between Penny and Travis. The pacing is quick. There were parts of this book that are completely outlandish but I couldn't stop turning pages. It did take me a couple tries to get into the story but once I did I was hooked.

4.5/5 🌟

Thank you to NetGalley, Poisoned Pen Press, and Carter Wilson for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I recommend this book to those who like Thrillers in which the character doesn't know what to do/where to go next. The characters we meet along the way only help the story become more complex and make you wonder what will happen next.

I loved that Penny was a savant and the descriptions of her "gifts" were wonderful and added another unique layer.

In all honesty, I am new in my reading-for-fun journey as an adult and trying to find authors and genres I love. After reading this piece, I am excited to read more by Carter Wilson!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 𝔽𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕥: 𝔼-𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥, 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞, 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭-𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠! 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤?? 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫? 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐨𝐟-𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐼 𝒸𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓉 𝑒𝓃𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠? 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓴. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐩!

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐁𝐥𝐲, 𝐚 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝟕𝟓 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬? 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐬. 𝐎𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨. 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇.

𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 "𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐬," 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲'𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠-𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐣𝐨𝐛, 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫. 𝒮𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 $𝟣𝟢𝟢 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓅𝑜𝒸𝓀𝑒𝓉, 𝓃𝑜 𝒸𝒶𝓇 𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓃𝒶𝓂𝑒, 𝓃𝑜 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓃, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑜 𝒾𝒹𝑒𝒶 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓈. 𝐈𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫–𝐚 "𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐩"–𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫 (𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫).

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐨𝐟-𝐚𝐠𝐞. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐬𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐫!

ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖 𝔻𝕒𝕥𝕖: 𝔸𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕝 𝟚, 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟜

𝐻𝓊𝑔𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃𝓀 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝑜 𝒩𝑒𝓉𝒢𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓎, 𝒞𝒶𝓇𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒲𝒾𝓁𝓈𝑜𝓃, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒫𝑜𝒾𝓈𝑜𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝒫𝑒𝓃 𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝑒 𝒶 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝑒-𝒜𝑅𝒞 𝒾𝓃 𝑒𝓍𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒽𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝓋𝒾𝑒𝓌!

I love it when you request an ARC on NetGalley on a whim and the book totally surprises you in a very good way!!! 🙌

The book was just excellent - I loved the characters, the writing style, the twists - all of it! ❤️ It even had me a little emotional in parts! 🥺

This was my first read by this author and it certainly will not be my last!!! Highly recommend this one, book peeps!! 👏👏👏

Thank you to NetGalley, Poisoned Pen Press, and Carter Wilson for the opportunity to read this in exchange for my honest review! ❤️

On her 21st birthday Penny Bly decides to finally leave town and go find her father; the father she hasn’t seen since her accident when she was little. Penny has a photographic memory that developed at this incident. When she steps outside of her sheltered life, she very quickly finds herself in a lot of trouble. Her memory never lets her forget a second of it.

I LOVED this mystery and could not put it down! The chapters are all very short and make it easy to just fly through. I loved the characters; the friends Penny meets along her journey are so well written, you can’t help but hope they all find what they are looking for. I put together several theories in my head to try and figure everything out, but was shocked by the plot twists at the end!

I also loved the bits of action that was worked into this book and the way Penny’s memory worked. Everything flowed so well. I was shocked to find myself tearing up at the end, but I think it was the perfect conclusion to this book. Definitely recommend this one!

I would highly recommend reading this book! I think if I wasn't busy I would've read the whole book in a day! It's about a young woman who becomes a savant and decides to go cross country to find her father. She leaves with little money, no plan, and has a trip like none you would ever expect or imagine.

Thank you for this ARC! I thought I had the twist figured out in the first 10% of the book. Wrong! This was such an interesting story with the main character being a savant. Would recommend to my audience.

I sure do love Carter Wilsons writing and always will. When I saw this book was going to be coming out this year I got so excited to see I was approved to read an e-ARC of this.

Do you love a gripping fast paced, action packed book that will grab you from the first page leaving you questioning everything until you finish. I sat down and did not reemerge until I was done. Loved everything about this.

I adored Pennys character and how well developed she was. This storyline/plot was so well written!!! We follow Penny through twists & turns on a wild ride of complete chaos as she tried to find her father. How you believe this book is going to end will surly surprise you.

A new favorite read of 2024 that should be on every thriller loving readers TBR.

Thanks to #NetGalley and #PoisonedPenPress for the book #TheFatherSheWentToFind by #CarterWilson. This book is about the journey and 21 year old woman goes on to find her father. Along the way there is so much chaos and murder, until she makes it to where she thinks her father is. This is a first time author and I would recommend this book.

Super smart Penny has always wondered why her father left when she was in a coma at 7 years old. When she receives a birthday card in the mail from him with a return address, she decides to leave the safety of her mother's house and ventures out on a road trip to find him. Along the way, Penny is confronted with many different characters and some seriously dangerous situations. Will Penny find out why her father left all those years ago?

Holy moly. This book was such a wild ride. I kept thinking things couldn't possibly get any worse but then situation upon situation were added to Penny's journey. There were so many twists in this fast paced story, combined with the short chapters it made for the exact type of thriller I enjoy. Highly recommend you add this to your list if you enjoy road trip style thrillers.