Review: The Usual Silence - Jenny Milchman

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Review: The Usual Silence - Book #1 Arles Shepherd Thriller - Jenny Milchman - October 2024

I was excited to read this one as it sounded interesting and overall the book was a good thriller, but I did feel that it had a bit too many storylines and along the way, the story for me started to get muddled and confusing. It gave me the same vibes of Family of Liars by E.Lockhart where you enjoy the book, but you are still left with that feeling of what I read as I sat here afterward trying to process and wrap my head around the book. The book starts with a young girl kidnapped and then it jumps to a therapist named Arles Shepherd whose therapy skills are seen as out of the box she gets a few complaints and the board decide to let her go. She then inherits her family's old house to open it as a residential therapy. There she invites Louise and her son. Arles has been searching for the identity of Louise as she has had in her possession for the past 20+ years a photo of a young girl. The girl in the photo is the daughter of a person who kidnapped her when she was young. The young girl is the only thing that kept Arles going and she has been determined to find out everything that happened to her and get justice and the girl in the photo is the key. When Arles discovers that Louise has a son with autism and mutism, she reaches out and as it turns out Louise's son has been misdiagnosed as before two-three years he was a chatty baby and toddler. What happened back then to stop him talking? Is it connected to Arles' reason for meeting Louise? Find out in The Usual Silence by Jenny Milchman, though this book was a confusing read - I am willing to give her other books in this series a read and see if this was just a one-off odd read.

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Bz121x



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