The Second Mother
Books | Fiction / Psychological
3.6
Jenny Milchman
"Proving Stephen King isn't the only author who can make a scenic small town in Maine feel menacing, Jenny Milchman's The Second Mother is a haunting thriller."--POPSUGAR Opportunity: Teacher needed in one-room schoolhouse on remote island in Maine. Find the freedom in a fresh start.Julie Weathers isn't sure if she's running away or starting over, but moving to a remote island off the coast of Maine feels right for someone with reasons to flee her old life. The sun-washed, sea-stormed speck of land seems welcoming, the lobster plentiful, and the community close and tightly knit. She finds friends in her nearest neighbor and Callum, a man who appears to be using the island for the same thing as she: escape.But as Julie takes on the challenge of teaching the island's children, she comes to suspect that she may have traded one place shrouded in trouble for another, and she begins to wonder if the greatest danger on Mercy Island is its lost location far out to sea, or the people who live there.
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Author
Jenny Milchman
Pages
464
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
Published Date
2020
ISBN
1492694444 9781492694441
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"I am notorious for wanting books because of the cover and most of the time they work out, this one did not. <br/><br/>Julie is a teacher who is looking for a place to escape her grief of a child. She finds that in a position offered off an island in Maine where cell service is non existent. <br/><br/>She has a dog, a dog that is persistently mentioned in every other word she mutters and initially I thought I was wary about reading this since it says it’s a “Thriller”. <br/>Y’all the dog is fine and I have no clue why he was mentioned so much and I also wouldn’t classify this a thriller, or a mystery nor a SUSPENSE book. <br/><br/>The characters were boring and there wasn’t really any riveting plot, except the obvious…People go to the island to escape from a variety of reasons but none of those reasons come back. <br/><br/><br/><br/>"
Jodie L
"It was kind of a slow burn, but in a good way. The mystery of the island is apparent even in the last chapters. It was a great read!"
Ashley Montes
