Kelly's Bookworm Review Blog: The Perfect Daughter by D.J. Palmer

April 20, 2021

NetGalley, publisher invite

St Martin’s Press

April 20, 2021

NetGalley, publisher invite

St Martin’s Press

Fiction, thriller, arc, digital, suspense

384 pages

4/5

ISBN: 9781250267924

7/8/21-7/19/21

Danielle Prielipp

Senior Marketing Manager | St. Martin's Publishing Group

Macmillan Publishers (are working remotely)

danielle.prielipp@stmartins.com | 646-307-5542

I received a complimentary digital copy of this book from the publisher and NetGalley. This review is my voluntary and unbiased opinion.

Alternates between story and Jack the brother version of story for writing class.

Penny Francone, 16 yo, is accused of murdering her biological mother, Rachel Boyd.

Alternate personalities emerged at age 12 when she spoke with a British accent and called herself Ruby. Then my came Chloe the perfectionist and Eve the angry, aggressive personality. This lead to the DID, multiple personality diagnosis which holds conflicting options even within the medical community.

Dr Mitchell McHugh was the new doctor with his own sordid story of depression. Trying to support snd make amends to his son struggling with addiction, in and out or rehab. His career gets sidetracked and ends up at working at Edgewater in Swampscott, MA.

Grace Francone is Penny’s adoptive mother whose husband suddenly died at the pizzeria from a heart attack they owned one night with Penny. It happened to be the night before they had planned to send her to a residential treatment center. Her angry alter Eve was becoming impossible to control.

Life is turned upside down when Rachel apparently contacts Penny through Facebook.

They place their trust in Attorney Navarro, Annie (Grace’s sister in law), and Dr McHugh to keep Penny from receiving the death sentence.

I enjoyed this twisted story about murder and family and mental health. Is it possible that 16 year old Penny has dissociative identity disorder and not responsible for the murder of her biological mother, Rachel Boyd? The story becomes more complicated as other characters have ulterior motives for wanting her to take the fall for the murder. Grace Francone is the determined and relentless mother who goes to any extreme to prove her daughter’s innocence.

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