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My Book Review of ‘What Mother Won’t Tell Me’ — Debbi Mack

Debbi Mack
2 min readMay 17, 2024

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Hi, today I am reviewing What Mother Won’t Tell Me. Now I read this one on my Kindle app and, unfortunately, it kind got lost in the shuffle of reviews I was doing. So I just want to say that I really enjoyed this book a lot. It was a highly suspenseful story.

The protagonist is a young woman, a girl who’s old enough to be say in her teens, I think, and she has a younger brother, and they’re on this island and they keep being told they’re being protected from the outside world, and she wants very much to leave the island and see what’s out there. And her parents are like, no, no, don’t go there. So as it turns out, they’re kind of not cool. I won’t say anything more. I think that’s all that needs to be said.

It’s a highly suspenseful story that really merits somebody’s attention. And I’ll just leave it at that. What Mother Won’t Tell Me, as described by a publicist, “a taut Nordic thriller with a folk tale twist about a young girl raised in strict isolation, protected from the cruel people in the outside world who soon realizes the most dangerous strangers…

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Debbi Mack
Debbi Mack

Written by Debbi Mack

New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including the Sam McRae Mystery series. Screenwriter, podcaster, and blogger. My website: www.debbimack.com.

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