When The Lights Go Out – Mary Kubica

When The Lights Go Out, the latest thriller from Chicago-based author Many Kubica, tells the tale of a young woman dealing (poorly) with the death of her mother. While trying to move on in the days following the death, she finds that her entire identity may be a lie. Or is it?

Kubica has been more hit than miss with me, but when she does miss, she misses big. I was enjoying his tale of a woman dealing with grief and slowly losing her mind and identity, until the “shocking twist”, which pulled the rug out from underneath the whole mystery. At the end of the day, this turned out to be the story of a woman whose mom died. Not exactly what I had signed up for.