14/5/2018 0 Comments Review: Then She Was Gone
My Review:Lisa Jewell is a brilliant author, her recent books - I Found You, The Girls, and The Third Wife were all excellent and well worth visiting.
THEN SHE WAS GONE begins with a clear opening with the grief Laurel is still suffering after her daughter Ellie went missing ten years previously. Laurel's hurt is heartfelt and the revelations and view points of other characters were incredibly woven, and coincidental without breaching plausibility. Twist after painful twist. The novel not only stayed with me during the day, it infiltrated my dreams. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Update - a few days on and I still can't stop thinking about this book.
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7/5/2018 0 Comments Review: Double Kiss
My Review:Double Kiss is the second book of Ronnie O'Sullivan's Soho Trilogy (read my review for Framed here).
Yes, that Ronnie O'Sullivan. The Snooker World Championship has been on for the last fortnight culminating in tonight's final, and although Ronnie didn't make it to the quarter finals this year it seemed an apt time to read Double Kiss, and what a ride! The opening chapter starts with: 'It's coming home... It's coming home... It's coming... Football's coming home... And with eleven words the book time travels you to the nineties for Euro '96. The story is a perfect for a middle-trilogy book. The adventure is fast and furious without giving away too many answers, it leaves you wanting to see how the James family saga ends. It's difficult not to think of Ronnie's stance and gait when reading the adventures of Frankie James. He's tall, dark, and handsome with a cocky manner and armed cheeky glint in his eye. Framed was published in November 2016, Double Kiss in November 2017, let's hope November 2018 brings us the final frame in this Soho set. Highly recommended. 4/5/2018 0 Comments Review: Let Me Lie
My Review:Clare Mackintosh is the Queen of Plot Twists.
And if you haven't read Ms Mackintosh before - her first and second novels (I Let You Go and I See You) are both brilliant, you're in for a treat. I was looking forward to reading this book for some time and then all of a sudden the publication date had passed, the book reached number 1 on the Sunday Times Bestseller List, and I still hadn't read it. So I was glad to finally sit down with this book. The story follows Anna and the tragedy that has filled her life to date. Just as she seems to be putting the suicides of both her parents behind her, she is haunted by her past. Everyone is a suspect; Agatha Christie would be proud at the number of red herrings. I was on the edge of my (very comfortable reading) seat until the very last page. I feel compelled to read the book again to marvel at the intricate stitch work that is Ms Mackintosh's plotting! Highly Recommended. 3/4/2018 0 Comments Review: Skin Deep
My Review: Are people born wicked?
Wow - what an amazing story. This was not the book I expected, however it blew me away. It was so much more than a run of the mill psychological thriller. The story opens with the death of a man, and the book is the rich, detailed, and epic tapestry that is Delia's life as it unravels every moment that leads her living in the French Riviera and to be face-to-face with the unnamed assailant. The story is Interspersed with island fables told to her by her father, and view points from other characters, Resulting in no stone is left unturned with why and how Cordelia ended up as she did, Highly recommended. 31/3/2018 0 Comments Review: Framed
My Review:I am a fan of thrillers and love the nostalgia of notorious gangsters à la The Krays. However, snooker champion Ronnie O’Sullivan’s debut novel Framed would have probably passed me by unread had it not been for Victoria Sadler’s rave review of Double Kiss (the follow-up to Framed, and second book of the Soho Nights trilogy). “Double Kiss by snooker legend Ronnie O’Sullivan may well be one of the best commercial crime novels I’ve read this year!”
Set in the nineties, it is lovely to relive the Soho I remember, rather than 1960s gangland London before my time. Framed focusses on Frankie James, and the stitch-up of his little brother Jack. I finished it in a couple of leisurely days by the pool. It is a thoroughly decent thriller, the characters and dal and believable and the story had me guessing and changing my whodunits from chapter to chapter as the drama raced to a climax. I’ll definitely be back for the second instalment of the Soho Nights trilogy. |
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