Review: "Blood and Bone" by Tara Brown (Blood and Bone #1)


Note: This ARC was provided by Montlake Romance via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Jane Spears' seemingly normal world begins to tilts off its axis when a man on the street calls her by another name. She insists she isn't Samantha Barnes but the man is adamant, piquing Jane's curiosity. She does a bit of searching and finds out that Samantha has passed away but a photo shows Jane how it was possible for the man to think she and Samantha were one and the same. With more information gathered, Jane can't help but wonder if she had an actual doppelgänger who shared more than an eerily similar face. 

Here world then totally goes in a tailspin when there are more questions than answers in her quest to find out just who Samantha Barnes is and how she's connected to Jane. She's torn between believing her boyfriend Derek, who insists it's all just coincidence, and a man she just met, Rory, claiming that she is, indeed Samantha Barnes. Even as she gets more answers, the less she understands about what truly is going on, pushing her to get to the truth behind all the lies, the people around her, and who she really is.

If I had to describe Tara Brown's Blood and Bone, the first in a series with the same title, it would be this: mindfuck. Yup, this book was a total mindfuck. Just like the lead female character, the more answers you think you're getting, the more questions crop up, and even though there were moments I felt the confusion may get the best of me, I couldn't stop reading. I was sucked in by the compelling story of a woman who was thought the life she had was good until she wondered whose life she was actually leading.

I enjoyed reading Jane's transition throughout the book as well as how her relationship with Derek seemed to be the one thing she was always hesitant to question and that being with him was the one entanglement she did not want to unravel. I was actually rather upset with Rory because he would make Jane question Derek's motives and the kind of person he was, but even when Jane would waver, it was her faith in what they had together, whether it was wrong or right, that she chose to hold on to all throughout.

While this is the first in a series, it works well as a standalone, especially since there were no cliffhangers and I got the answers that I needed (demanded) from this romantic suspense thriller of a novel. This is also the first Tara Brown book I've had the pleasure of reading, though I do have her other novel, The Lonely, which I downloaded when it was offered for free on Amazon in May 2014, and now that I've experienced her fab writing, that book definitely moves up my TBR list. Blood and Bone gets five stars! ♥

Release Date: 28 April 2015

Date Read: 28 April 2015

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