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MWSA Review
An Imperfect Plan by Addison McKnight, the pen name of Nicole Moleti and Krista Wells, is a mystery/thriller involving two women of completely different backgrounds with a similar desire. Because of how they were raised, both women have their own motivations on how to realize their dreams, and for the actions they take to achieve them.
Colette DeLuca and Greta O’Brien are the two main characters, who are sometimes hard to like. The two women live parallel lives for a good part of the book. The authors devote alternating chapters to Colette and Greta and their various relationships. A reader can’t help but wonder what one has to do with the other.
The one thing the women have in common is that each is desperate to be a mother. Because of their backgrounds and life circumstances, Greta will stop at nothing to achieve that goal. Colette has what she thinks is a viable plan. As the authors point out, “All it takes is one lie for the best-laid plans to go awry.”
When their lives finally do intersect through tragedy, both Colette and Greta, and their families, will never be the same. After overcoming betrayal, manipulation, lies, and deceit, the two women find that a common loss is cause for a tentative relationship.
Expect to be surprised, angered, perhaps shocked, and at times, saddened when you read An Imperfect Plan.
Review by Nancy Panko (March 2023)
Author's Synopsis
All it takes is one lie for the best-laid plans to go awry.
After decades of pushing away traumatic memories from childhood, Colette De Luca is ready to start a family of her own. It’ll be healthy, a wish come true, with a man she believes is the love of her life. Thankfully, she thought ahead when she was younger and froze her eggs for this very moment.
Greta O’Brien, a wealthy hedge-fund manager, is forced to confront the making of her own family when tragedy strikes her twin teenage sons. As she debates whether to confess a betrayal to her husband, the ripple effects of the family’s devastating circumstances begin to spread far beyond their home.
These two women, hopeful, disillusioned, and desperate, are on an emotional decades-long journey to motherhood by any means necessary. Strangers whose lives explode in the wake of a shocking event―and converge in more ways than one―Colette and Greta are forced to face the twists of fate and the choices they’ve made.
Format(s) for review: Paper and Kindle
Review Genre: Fiction—Mystery/Thriller
Number of Pages: 381
Word Count: 80,000