The Game you Played by Anni Taylor
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Read: 28th January 2018
Purchase: Amazon
****4 stars
This book really played with your mind! But it was a brilliant read! What I loved about this was that it was (surprisingly) set in my home of Sydney, Australia...so I really knew the places described. Although the setting of the street they all lived in was actually fictional, I recognised the area well (from descriptions) as part of Sydney's historic The Rocks area around Miller's Point which was home to much of Australia's first settlers in convict times.
The book is about the disappearance of a child, Tommy Basko, while the mother Phoebe was preoccupied and the father Luke had gone to get ice creams. And so it delved into the history of the couple and their friends who all lived on the same street growing up and returning later in life to live there once again. As the story develops it is revealed that there is a secret surrounding one of the houses on the street (next door to the creepy girl they knew as teenagers and her mother) and the secret they all left there about a decade or so before. It was this secret; that house...that lead to Tommy's disappearance today. Or so it seemed.
"The Game You Played" is about secrets and mind games and is a thrill ride you are sure to remember. And wonderful to read something set in my hometown. I recognise the water park (we've played there ourselves - as it's also for big kids), the areas, the streets... A great read!
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