Pre-Owned Close Your Eyes (Hardcover) by Amanda Eyre Ward

from dablackwood

This book was a huge disappointment. The characters were pretty flat and the plot predictable. I gave it two stars only because I was motivated to finish it. The murder at the center of the story should have been solved at the time it was committed. There was no real development of the characters...

from Darwa

Another book that I really wanted to like, but in the end wound up finishing simply because I was so far into it that I did not want to just abandon it. Many of the reviews I had read mentioned plot twists and elements of suspense. Instead I found that once all the characters were introduced it w...

from njmom3

Close Your Eyes is about the effect of a devastating tragedy on three women's lives from their childhood to adult. Each is involved in the tragedy in a different way. The story had the potential to be a very powerful one. Unfortunately, the characters and each individual story was not developed i...

from frisbeesage

Close Your Eyes is the story of Lauren and Alex Mahdian, two young children, asleep in their backyard tree house the night their mother is murdered. Their father is convicted of the murder and Alex becomes all that Lauren has left, her security and roots and family. Lauren seems to be living at t...