Teenage girl leading a typical life suddenly has some strange thing happen around her and she disappears. It's not a great mystery/thriller in my opinion. It took me a while to get through this one and I can't pinpoint why, because the story did seem interesting. It was a good debut, but personally didn't hook me.

A terrific thriller that kept me reading until the wee hours of the morning. The set-up is chilling; a young girl is missing and mysteriously shows up years later. Is the she real Bec or an imposter? Nothing is what it seems, including family and friends connected the missing girl.

She's been caught shoplifting food. She's hungry, homeless, dirty, and on the run. But she has a way out. She happens to look identical to a teen girl who went missing a decade earlier, Rebecca Winter. She assumes Rebecca's identity, using it as a get-out-of-jail-free card. Little does she know her new life as Bec Winter is its own kind of prison. Before she knows it, she's wrapped up in the mystery of her alter ego's disappearance, and it looks like the killer might be after her.

The preview was great but the book just didn't grab me, I DNF'ed about halfway through. I won't be leaving reviews as I dont' feel it's fair.

Years ago I saw a documentary called The Imposter about a French con man named Frederic Bourdin who, in 1997, claimed to be Nicholas Barclay, a 13 year old boy abducted from his Texas home in 1994. Despite the fact that Bourdin was 23 at the time he was claiming to be the 17 year old Nicholas, the Barclay family believed him and welcomed him home.

Only Daughter seems to use the story of Nicholas Barclay and Frederic Bourdin as it's inspiration. There were many times while reading it that my mind flashed back to the documentary. While the case of Nicholas Barclay has never been solved, I did enjoy the resolution to both storylines.

As mentioned by other reviewers, there was a very disturbing incident of animal abuse that, while showing the utter depravity some of the characters possess, could probably have been done without.

As the market has been flooded by unreliable female narrators in tales of psychological suspense (which is personally one of my favourite types of books, being boringly reliable myself), it is sometimes hard to distinguish between the "good ones" (Before I Go to Sleep) and the "bad ones" (The Silent Wife). This one would lean more towards a "good one".

Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy. You guys are swell.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book, addictive and hard to put down!

The premise was there for the way the book was supposed to go. I was intrigued until I'm about halfway. Somehow I got bored and didn't connect with any one or felt the neee to go on