The Good Sister – JenniElyse

Title: The Good Sister
Author: Sally Hepworth
Genre: Thriller
Format: Kindle
Pages: 309
Rating:

My Thoughts

For the most part, I loved THE GOOD SISTER. It was a fantastic story that kept me reading until the end. I saw the big twist coming a mile away, but it didn’t ruin the suspense or story for me. I still wanted to know how everything would play out, and I wasn’t disappointed. I really liked the characters. I liked that even though I guessed the twist, I still kept wondering if I was right.

I really struggled with Hepworth’s portrayal of mental illness, specifically Borderline Personality Disorder. I feel like her antagonist perpetuated the stigma that people with BPD are violent psychopaths. I simply wish she had talked to a DBT-trained psychologist or even someone who’s diagnosed with BPD before she used it as one of the reasons why the antagonist did what they did.