The Au Pair 🌟🌟🌟🌟
by Emma Rous
Published January 8 2019 by Berkley Books
This was a mighty good suspenseful tale of family secrets and misfortunes never told, and what can happen when one starts asking questions. The inquiring mind belongs to Seraphin (a name new to me and highly distracting, since I kept wondering how it's pronounced, why didn't they just call her Sara for short instead of Seph, etc., etc.). Her chapters were less interesting, as her character seemed shallow and undeveloped. After finding a snapshot of her family taken on the day of her birth, and the day of her mother's suicide, she becomes obsessed with finding out if she actually belongs in this family or if something shady transpired that day. There are rumors of there being only one baby born, rather than two, or maybe there were three.
The alternating chapters belonged to the au pair, spanning the eleven months just before Seraphin and her twin brother were born. Here's where we see how the secrets came into being. The au pair knows everything, it appears, but someone is threatening her not to talk about it.
As all is finally revealed, you had better be paying attention or it could become downright confusing. I had most of it figured out but there still remained some details, which kept coming and coming and coming. Maybe the final chapter could have been eliminated altogether to give the reader more to imagine. Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher.
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