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What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr
3.0

This was an interesting tale of a dementia stricken elderly women turned into a super hero grandmother trying to prove her sanity while taking down a care home. I did find this to be a rather slow burn. I also found it to be kind of a far fetched story.

The story follows Rose an elderly women living in a care home with dementia. One night she was found wondering in the woods and returned to the care home. Rose doesn't remember living here out why she is here but feels like she doesn't belong and they ate poisoning her. Rose comes up with a plan to escape the care home. As she comes out of the medical induced fog she is determined to prove she isn't crazy. She teams up with her granddaughter and her sister to try and figure out what this care home is all about. That's when the crazy adventure begins. When i say crazy I really mean insane adventure this grandmother endures to prove she's sane. The lengths the granddaughter goes to support her grandmother was very heartfelt. The ending was something I didn't see coming it was a whole lot of suspense and craziness compared to the slowness of the rest of the story.

This is one book that will leave you thinking could this really happen in real life?

Thank you to Minotaur books for a copy in exchange for an honest review.