I dived into this a bit blind. I skimmed the blurb and thought, well, it's on my Kindle, it must have caught my attention for some reason, so here goes. No more than a couple of pages in, and I was hooked. This falls easily into the page-turner category.

Emily witnesses a tragic hit and run. Emily is a fragile person with a troubled past and finds herself fascinated by Rose's, the victim's, life. It's there for the world to see on her Facebook page. It's the perfect, idyllic life, and she was the perfect, idyllic wife and mother, virtually beatified by her husband and all who knew her. Especially her husband. Emily's life was a bit of a train wreck, so…what if she stepped into Saint Rose's shoes? But no one really knows what goes on behind a stage of perfection.

This rolls along at a consistently good pace, it's tense, suspenseful and keeps you guessing. You find yourself pointing at one character, and then no, that 's a a red herring, it must the other one…or is it?! Very skilfully written, with depth and feeling.

Compelling, thrilling and emotionally charged. I was totally addicted, and I'm certainly going to read more by this author.

The only reason I haven't given this five stars is because there were one too many grammatical blunders: and I'll never let off a 'was sat' lightly. Really does make my nose twitch.
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Wow. I had a hard time putting this book down! I was enthralled with it. I read it during a readathon, by myself. I don’t know who else has read it so I have no one to go over the reader guide with. Yet I will. I will write my answers and my thoughts to the questions posed because the book was that good. Read it. ( )

I enjoyed this story although it took me a while to become engaged. Emily was a damaged young lady and sometimes I wanted to give her a good shake. Worth reading. ( )

If you're looking for a good scary end of summer read, this book is for you. "Her Name Was Rose" follows a woman named Emily, who has just witnessed a particularly gruesome hit and run. The woman, who was walking with her baby, dies on the scene, and she's left with a haunting image. She leaves before the police get there.

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From the very opening of Her Name Was Rose, Claire Allen immediately catapults her readers into the action when the narrator, Emily, narrowly escapes becoming a victim of a hit and run accident. She suspects that this was no accident, and that she was supposed to be the intended target- not the young mother whose life Emily witnesses being torn out right before her eyes. It is also immediately apparent that she is woman who has been destabilized and damaged by some past trauma. Stricken with guilt, Emily tries to discover as much as she can about Rose, the woman who she feels took her place. She scours social media for details about Rose and her family, even going so far as to attend her funeral. What she sees leads her to covet the life led by the deceased, and she attempts to learn more by applying to replace Rose at her workplace. Emily insinuates herself there by acting as a supportive friend to the grieving people she meets, and eventually as a shoulder to cry on for Rose’s famous husband. As the novel progresses, Allen slowly unfolds Emily’s history, creating questions about her main character’s reliability and state of mind. Emily, desperate for a sense of identity and connection, makes increasingly bad choices that soon place her in the crosshairs of a killer. The reader has no recourse but to rely on Emily’s point-of-view, despite sensing that she might be deluded and have a skewed perspective about what is happening around her. This book was a great quick read, fast-paced with some nice twists, and would appeal to mystery fans of Girl on a Train (Paula Hawkins) or Big Little Lies (Liane Moriarty). ( )