I brought this book ages ago cause the cover screamed "sex worker", I'm hugely into reading and supporting stories told by adult entertainers. According to Google J.P hasn't ever worked in the adult industry, and this story is a thriller..a kidnapping situation..so..thanks. 

But J.P Pomare is a New Zealand born author, who resides in Australia. So..yay..another non American writer in my collection. 

Holy fk. This book is  a LOT. Two chapters in and I'm done. You need to be in the right mental space for "Call me Evie." , first chapter is about a woman whose being forced into having her head shave, the second chapter is about a young child accidentally burning themselves with hot water. 

This is going to be a long book.....

You do have to follow this book very closely cause besides the chapters, it's also got sub chapter with "after" or "before", so one minute your with Kate/Evie whose held hostage and the next minute your with a teenage Kate whose experiencing her firsts, while being raised by her widowed dad. 

Call me Evie is a wild ride of trauma. From revenge porn, domestic violence disgused as teenage love, a young woman being held hostage and disorted memories. 

This story is told in first person, it's relatively easy to follow until you get to the last couple of chapters, where it flips between Evie, Jim and Thom, and since its a first person story, you have to carefully follow the details cause you don't know whose POVs your getting until your midway. 

Call me evie is a quick gripping read but definitely need times for you to mentally process between pages. 

This is one of my favourite books this year- I read it in one sitting and could not put it down! Pomare is a genius when it comes to slipping in clues and plot twists. This psychological thriller’s story gently unfurls and kept me guessing right until the end, and even then I didn’t get the twist!