Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel (#31 in 2020)
Thank you to @berkleypub for my gifted review copy.
Rose Gold Watts is finally free from her abusive mother, Patty. Rose Gold spent the majority of her life under the assumption that she was chronically ill with a wide variety of allergies. When it was finally discovered that Patty was keeping her daughter ill, she is sentenced to 5 years in prison. The story picks up as Patty is being released from imprisonment with no one to turn to except the daughter she failed all those years ago. Rose Gold might have reconciled with her mother, but is she really telling the truth? If you've ever seen the documentary about Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother, Dee Dee, you pretty much already know the type of conflict. In the real life story, Dee Dee mentally suffered from Munchausen by proxy syndrome and her daughter, Gypsy Rose, physically suffered as a result. Darling Rose Gold was interesting and a quick read, but I felt that it was too easy to predict. I remember one of the biggest twists was "introduced" fairly early, and I actually texted @pattyisbooked telling her that I had already figured it out. In the final chapters, I proved myself to be correct. It wasn't thrilling or suspenseful whatsoever, so I wouldn't place it in the thriller genre. I think if I went into this book expecting a drama, I would have liked it a lot more. 3 stars
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