Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

Hello beautiful people! Welcome to a new review! For this review, I get into Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda a personal first I believe for this author. After checking out Daughter of Mine though I am definitely interested in checking out more of Megan Miranda’s book. In a riveting mystery thriller, a family with a tough past is forced to come together again when their father passes. When a second car is found at the bottom of the water near their father’s home, and another member goes missing, the scramble to find answers and piece together the past is on. Set in a small town where everyone knows everyone’s business the questions of who is keeping secrets and why comes to the surface.

Main Characters:

• Hazel: Step-sister to Gage and Caden and step-daughter to detective Perry Holt, is raised by Perry as a child and grows up with the boys who always seemed to struggle to accept her, when her father passes it’s a shock to everyone that he left his house solely to her and not to the boys when they find a car at the bottom of the water behind the home Hazel discovers that this isn’t the first one they have found back there, the car brings up old secrets and questions to the surface and Hazel is determined to figure out what they are
• Perry Holt: Long time detective in the small town he grew up in and then raised his children in, was known as a good, kind, and fair man, who looked out for his community
• Caden Holt: Hazel’s older stepbrother who out of the two struggled the most to accept her into the family, would often blame Hazel for any issues in the family
• Gage Holt: Hazels other stepbrother who she was much closer with than Caden, when their dad dies he provides her with comfort and care
• Roy Holt: Perry’s brother and the lawyer in the family, break it to the kids how Perry had the will set up

My Review

As I said before I really enjoyed Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda and found it to be a medium-paced thriller with lots of twists and turns that keep you guessing. I also really enjoyed the main cast of characters and found their experience as children and adults to be really relatable. Blended families are an interesting topic and often not an easy one. I enjoyed the different dynamics between the characters and how they spoke more about their past together rather than their present. I also found it interesting how it took the death of the glue of this family to bring them all back together again.

I don’t want to get too much into the book because it was released pretty recently, and I would honestly recommend picking this one up. I totally felt throughout the book that I had an idea of where things were going or who did what, but I was always wrong. I really enjoyed the way the book played out and while I didn’t see it coming enjoyed the shock factor when the big secret was finally exposed. Overall I gave Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda a 8/10 rating. I honestly don’t have much critique on the book. I found it to be an easy-to-follow mystery with a decent cast of characters to follow along. I enjoyed the small-town feel to things because it often created this sense of tension or suspense when it came to who knew what, and why they were hiding the secrets in the first place.

Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda follows Hazel as she returns home for her stepfather’s funeral. Perry Holt’s death was unexpected to all of his children and his loss is heavy on them. Hazel wonders if this is where she will finally break off from the family forever, however, her father has some other ideas. Leaving his house for Hazel after his passing she is now forced to go back home with her step-brothers Gage and Caden. However Gage and specifically Caden are not too impressed given that Hazel isn’t Perry’s biological child and came into their lives when her mother married him when she was a child. So why did he leave the house to Hazel? Hoping to rid her hands of the house Hazel finds herself being pulled even further when her niece discovers something at the bottom of the water that’s on her father’s property. Once the car is unearthed along with many questions Hazel stays home in hopes of finding answers, but finds many things are standing her way. A whole small town filled with long-standing politics, secrets, and ideas on who to protect, taints her ability to find the truth. With family history, personal struggles, and a town full of secrets, it’s a mystery you can’t pull away from and want to find out all the answers to.

I really enjoyed the characters in the book and felt like they made this a really strong read. It’s a bit of a boring setting, a quiet small town with not a lot going on, but it’s the people that bring it to life in this book. The long withstanding history they all have together, and the secrets they know about each other make it so this boring setting isn’t so boring at all. It was interesting to see how with the loss of Perry so many things started to crumble, and it’s clear all he wants is for his kids to be together. The mystery itself is really interesting, and while I can’t give too many details because it would give a lot away just know that the mystery really picks up and once it does it doesn’t stop until the end. Given the small cast of characters, there was only a set few people to have done the thing, and I had a totally different idea of who it was before it was exposed. Totally had me fooled.

I got through this book pretty quickly so if you are looking to pick up a fun mystery thriller I would definitely recommend picking Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda.

Have you checked out Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda or any of her other books before? What did you think?

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