I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney

I have read a few of Alice Feeney’s books so I know what to expect, something dark and twisty. I Know Who You Are is an older book of hers and you can read my full review below.

I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney

Aimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can’t remember where from. But I know exactly who you are. I know what you’ve done. And I am watching you.

When Aimee comes home and discovers her husband is missing, she doesn’t seem to know what to do or how to act. The police think she’s hiding something and they’re right, she is – but perhaps not what they thought. Aimee has a secret she’s never shared, and yet, she suspects that someone knows. As she struggles to keep her career and sanity intact, her past comes back to haunt her in ways more dangerous than she could have ever imagined.

I Know Who You Are will leave your heart pounding and your pulse racing. This is the most twisted thriller you’ll read all year.

My Review of I know Who You Are

I have very mixed feelings about this book. I was hooked from the beginning and couldn’t stop reading. I wanted to know what was going on, I was trying to work it all out and failing miserably. But the ending totally spoiled it for me.

It bounces between grown up Aimee, the actress, and young Aimee who was not actually Aimee. She was born in Ireland and her mother died in childbirth. Her father blamed her for her mother’s death and was cruel to her and her older brother. Then one day Aimee runs off and is taken by a woman being kind to her. The woman drugs her and takes her to England where she is given a whole new identity.

The family that kidnaps her have lost their daughter and sought out a little girl that looks like her. They are a strange couple, one minute showing her kindness, the other, being utterly cruel. But they teach her things that will later save her life. I found this whole part of the story very uncomfortable and especially as it’s told in a child’s voice.

Eventually, Aimee becomes an actress, quite a good one, but not the best. She is married to Ben who suddenly goes missing and she can’t figure out why. He’s not the best of husbands, jealous and sometimes abusive but she loves him and she knows she hasn’t hurt him. The police think otherwise, and even find a body, but the story gets even stranger from there.

Aimee is disorientated and beginning to feel like she’s losing her mind. She is also being stalked by a women who looks like her kidnapper and she is sent postcards saying ‘I Know Who You Are.’

After finishing her latest film things seem to spiral and Aimee ends up with her co-star as she doesn’t want to go home.

It seems like Aimee’s life is one tragedy after another and you do wonder how much suffering one person can endure and why.

But things do get much worse. Aimee finds out who her stalker is as they lay a trap and kidnap her. This is the part that really grates me, if the child abuse was not bad enough, what Aimee finds out is so much worse. It’s sick and twisted, and I have to say, totally unbelievable. I was invested in this book until I got to the end.

I don’t want to give any spoilers but I’d advise leaving this book alone if you don’t like the idea of child abuse (not sexual) domestic violence and other forms of sick behaviour that I can’t tell without giving away the plot. If they do decide to have books published with triggers as a legality, this book would come with many.

Alice Feeney’s later books are better.