Hurry Home by Roz Nay

Hey book lovers! I’m here with a book review for Hurry Home. I requested an ARC from Netgalley after hearing Lianne from Literary Diversions mark it as “on her radar”. I couldn’t put this down!

About The Book 📚

Publication Date: July 7, 2020

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books

Genre: Mystery/Thriller

My Review

“I’ve no concept of where he goes when he sleeps, but it’s an opposite dreamscape to mine.”

› Alexandra Van Ness shares a beautiful loft with her boyfriend, Chase, in a Colorado town. She takes her work as a child protection worker very seriously and isn’t afraid to speak up when she thinks a colleague is making a mistake. She often butts heads with Minerva, who tends to give parents the benefit of the doubt. Alex turns to Sully to talk about work instead of her boyfriend Chase because Sully has been a cop for ten years so Alex feels that he’s more able to understand where she’ coming from (it doesn’t hurt that she’s attracted to him either).

› Alex had a horrible childhood and hasn’t spoken to her sister in a decade. When her sister Ruth turns up pregnant and fleeing an abusive relationship Alex decides to let Ruth stay with her but never let her guard down. She knows Ruth is bad news and warns Chase to not share too much with Ruth.

“There’s a reason I can’t talk about the past even though I’m tied to it with a hundred feet of rope. Over the years, I’ve learned to swallow the long coil. What happened in Horizon sits piled in the deepest pit of me: I push it down; I keep it there. But my sister found the end of the rope, yanked it with all her might. And now here comes everything, rancid and foul as it’s ripped upward, pulling all of my insides out.”

› Hurry Home is about Alex putting her career on the line to help a baby who she feels is being neglected by his parents, keeping an eye on her sister, dealing with her feelings for Sully and Chase, while trying to keep deep, dark secrets in the past.

› Told in alternate points of view between Alex and Ruth, Hurry Home somehow feels like a slow-burn but page-turner at the same time. With excellent character development and world building, the loft gave a claustrophobic feeling while reading, making me feel even more uncomfortable as horrible secrets are revealed.

› As of May 2020, I use Book Roast’s CAWPILE method to rate books.
0-3 Really bad
4-6 Mediocre
7-9 Really good
10 Outstanding
Characters: 7
Atmosphere: 6
Writing Style: 7
Plot: 9
Intrigue: 9
Logic: 7
Enjoyment: 8

the average 7.6

1.1-2.2 = ★
2.3-4.5 = ★★
4.6-6.9 = ★★★
7-8.9 = ★★★★
9-10 = ★★★★★

My Goodreads Rating ★★★★

› Final Thoughts
• I wouldn’t call Hurry Home a thriller…this is more of a compelling psychological mystery/drama about family secrets with flawed characters and a tragic story that will have you switching sides more than once. I definitely want to read Nay’s first book, Our Little Secret.