The Break In by Katherine Faulkner

Alice is trying to deal with the fact that she has killed a man.

A young man was breaking into her home, a home where her young daughter and two friends were having a play date, and she jumped into action to keep those little girls safe. Charges are not laid against her, as she was found to have been acting in self-defence, and her friends and family tell her to try to move on from it all.

But, of course, Alice can’t move on. She still has no idea why this young man busted into her home. Then, if her life wasn’t already complicated enough, she makes it even more complicated and, in the process, learns disturbing things about those around her.

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

My thoughts

You’d think that with a premise like a man being killed because he broke into a house, that would be the opening of Katherine Faulkner's The Break In. But instead, the book opens after the event, and we don’t see what happened on the day of the attack until much later.

So, maybe because of that, it took me a while to get into this book, but the second half of the novel was pretty good! I honestly had a hard time sympathizing with the main character for the first bit, and if I don’t like the protagonist, it’s going to take a lot more work to get hooked on the book. But the ending was decently good, so I’m still glad I read the book.

Question of the day

If things started to go missing from your house—just small things—would you assume your forgetfulness is to blame, or would you suspect something else was going on?