Review: With Love from the Inside by Angela Pisel

A Mysterious Review of With Love from the Inside by Angela Pisel. A Novel of Suspense.

Review summary: This is an incredibly emotional novel involving the relationship between a mother and a daughter but there are other stories within this story. Overall, this is a wonderful and inspiring book, illustrating how life isn’t perfect by any means, but the decisions one makes and how one lives it is what's important. (Click here for text of full review.)

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With Love from the Inside
Angela Pisel
A Novel of Suspense
Putnam (August 2016)

Publisher synopsis: Grace Bradshaw knows the exact minute she will die. On death row for murdering her infant son, her last breath will be taken on February 15 at 12:01 a.m. Eleven years, five months, and twenty-seven days separate her from the last time she heard her precious daughter's voice and the final moment she'd heard anyone call her Mom. Out of appeals, she can focus on only one thing — reconnecting with her daughter and making sure she knows the truth.

Secrets lurk behind Sophie Logan's big house and even bigger bank account. Every day when she kisses her husband good-bye, she worries her fabricated life is about to come crumbling down. No one knows the unforgivable things her mother did to tear her family apart — not her husband, who is a prominent plastic surgeon, or her "synthetic" friends who live in her upscale neighborhood.

Grace's looming execution date forces Sophie to revisit the traumatic events that haunted her childhood. When she returns to her hometown, she discovers new evidence about her baby brother William's death seventeen years ago — proof that might set her mother free but shatter her marriage forever.

Sophie must quickly decide if her mother is the monster the prosecutor made her out to be or the loving mother she remembers — the one who painted her toenails glittery pink and plastered Post-it notes with inspiring quotes ("100 percent failure rate if you don't try") all over Sophie's bathroom mirror — before their time runs out.