Title:- More Than You’ll Ever Know
Author:- Katie Gutierrez
Date published:- June 7th 2022
No. of pages:- 435 pages
Rating:-
Plot:- 4/5
Writing:- 4/5
Overall rating:- 4/5
IT WAS A STORY THAT CASSIE BOWMAN COULDN’T RESIST.
LORE RIVERA LOVED TWO MEN.
UNTIL ONE OF THEM SHOT THE OTHER…
Lore Rivera was married to two men at once, until on a baking hot day in 1986, one of them found out and shot the other. A secret double life, a tragic murder. That’s the story the world knows.
It’s not the story that fascinates Cassie Bowman.
Carrying the weight of her own family tragedy, true-crime writer Cassie wants to know more about the mysterious woman at the heart of it all, Lore. How did one woman fall in love with two different men? How did she balance the love and the lies?
To her surprise, Cassie finds that Lore is willing to talk. To finally tell her heartbreaking story – about how a dance became an affair; how a marriage became a murder.
As the two women grow closer, Cassie finds she can’t help but confess her own darkest secrets. But when she slowly starts to realise that there might be more to the night of the murder than anyone has realised, can either woman face up to the thing they’ve been hiding from: the truth?
The plot of this story sounds interesting and intriguing.
Present Day, Cassie Bowman is a struggling true crime author and she decided to do a book about a woman named Lore who was married to two men back in the 1980’s. Then one day during the confrontation, one husband died and the other husband is sent to prison for the murder. Now Cassie, dealing with her own personal demons works with Lore to discover what really happened that night.
The story divides between the present day which is set in 2017 and past which is basically told from the point of view of Lore. The present day shift between Cassie’s and Lore’s POV. There were some tense moments, I got to know a little about the Mexican culture in general and I did enjoy the story. The writing was great and I do like how Cassie and Lore worked together. I also liked the backstory of Cassie’s background and her strained relationship with her father.
The only problem I had with the book is, I feel this book was way too long and that there were some unnecessary parts in the books that are not really relevant in the book. Nonetheless, I actually enjoyed this thriller and worth four stars in my opinion.
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