Review: HIDDEN IN THE DARK by RaShell Lashbrook

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After enduring a lifetime of abuse at the hands of the man that vowed to cherish her, Genny Carter knows only the role of the victim. More focused on avoiding punishment than the wellbeing of her three daughters, she ignored the terror inflicted on them by their father during their childhood. She kept his secrets. Now, in her sixties, Genny has had enough. She needs her daughters to help her escape. Can she count on them?

Lilly has tried for decades since leaving that little Texas farmhouse to erase the unspeakable things that were done to her. After snagging a wealthy man, she reinvents herself into a polished member of San Antonio’s old-money society. Can she keep up this façade, or will the secrets she hides cause her to lose everything?

Always Daddy’s favorite, thirty-five-year-old Randi tries to bury her shame in a mountain of sex and drugs. Estranged from her parents for nearly ten years, the news of Mother’s leaving forces her to face old wounds. Will she survive?

Much younger than her sisters, Raine was left to deal with Daddy’s horrific abuse after the others left. Shanti, free of a conscience, was conjured to help protect little Raine by whatever means necessary. Raine’s mother and father are back in the picture, and Shanti is on a rampage.

Every family has secrets. Some are worth dying for.


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My review: Genny was a woman in her 60’s married to the same mean, old, abusive drunk. After putting up with Randall for so long, she didn’t have to wonder why her daughters didn’t come around anymore.

Raine was stuck in a rut and hated her job, especially working for her fat slob of a boss.

Lillian was a happily married mother of two. She seemed to have had the perfect life.

Randi was a smoking, selfish lout that hadn’t spoken to her mother in years and never brought up the special relationship she had her father.

The news of the girl’s mother finally leaving their father stirs an unsettlement as painful memories emerge from the dark recess and surface to their minds. Story eloquently relives memories of the family’s murky past. But secrets were not just in the past; they were also playing part in the present as well. Raine was living a double life as her alter ego, Serenity, a sexually starved vixen; and soon a personality from the past takes over. And Lillian was having an affair. Could she be pregnant with another man’s child?

Each character had a different view and story that all melded together into one climactic and scintillating tale. Together, they unveil the secrets hidden in the dark.

“The unknown was a monster in the dark that threatened to swallow [you] whole.” (127)

The secrets would be enough to die and kill for.

Well-crafted and compelling! It makes you want to see it ‘til the end.

My rating: 4 stars