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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
This was CRAZY! I read this months ago and I still can even put my thoughts together! Wasn’t bad, but it had some stuff that I HATED with all my heart! Still? It’s a page turner!
this was excruciatingly bad to the point that i want a refund from the time i spend listening to the audiobook that i borrowed from a library.
dark
funny
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Tessa is a bad-ass. She’s an attractive, fit, self-made success. She’s the owner of a multi-million organic make-up company that she started as a stay-at-home mom as a side-job. She has it all, a huge house, more money than she could ever need and a successful and hot husband on top of it all. Don’t you just hate people like that?
Tessa doesn’t need a man. At the beginning of the book, she climbs up a ladder 45 times to shutter her mansion’s windows before a hurricane. I think that proves it. But still, she has an amazing marriage to Ethan that truly appears to be a partnership. They both work hard, and sometimes don’t make quite enough time for each other. But with jobs and kids, that’s life, right?
Tessa is so confident in her life and her marriage that she is completely blindsided to find naked pictures of her husband’s younger mistress on his iPad. Can you imagine? I mean, it’s one thing to find out your husband is cheating when you had no clue, it’s totally another to discover tacky nude pictures of his mistress. Ewww.
She’s unhinged. And she can’t think straight. She finds herself luring her husband’s mistress to her house, pretending to be Ethan. And things go a little crazy. Secrets are revealed and confessions are made.
Cole switches back and forth between the present day, madness and the evolution of Ethan and Lindsay’s affair. Also revealing interesting hints that Tessa never picked up on. Because why would she? She thought her husband loved her.
This book was a super-fast read, I read it in under 3 hours. And I’m always surprised by writers who are able to keep my attention and keep the story moving with a book that mostly occurs over the course of one night. But Cole does just that, keeping the story moving with flashbacks and surprising twists.
Special thanks to Gallery Books and Netgalley for an e-galley in exchange for my honest review. This one comes out May 28, just in time for pool season. For those that like their beach reads with a bit of suspense. This review will be published to my blog on April 24, 2019.
Tessa doesn’t need a man. At the beginning of the book, she climbs up a ladder 45 times to shutter her mansion’s windows before a hurricane. I think that proves it. But still, she has an amazing marriage to Ethan that truly appears to be a partnership. They both work hard, and sometimes don’t make quite enough time for each other. But with jobs and kids, that’s life, right?
Tessa is so confident in her life and her marriage that she is completely blindsided to find naked pictures of her husband’s younger mistress on his iPad. Can you imagine? I mean, it’s one thing to find out your husband is cheating when you had no clue, it’s totally another to discover tacky nude pictures of his mistress. Ewww.
She’s unhinged. And she can’t think straight. She finds herself luring her husband’s mistress to her house, pretending to be Ethan. And things go a little crazy. Secrets are revealed and confessions are made.
Cole switches back and forth between the present day, madness and the evolution of Ethan and Lindsay’s affair. Also revealing interesting hints that Tessa never picked up on. Because why would she? She thought her husband loved her.
This book was a super-fast read, I read it in under 3 hours. And I’m always surprised by writers who are able to keep my attention and keep the story moving with a book that mostly occurs over the course of one night. But Cole does just that, keeping the story moving with flashbacks and surprising twists.
Special thanks to Gallery Books and Netgalley for an e-galley in exchange for my honest review. This one comes out May 28, just in time for pool season. For those that like their beach reads with a bit of suspense. This review will be published to my blog on April 24, 2019.
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
*audio
Holy crap was all I could say. ALL the way through the story. This is laid out really strong and the author gave us all the completion we could have wanted.
Holy crap was all I could say. ALL the way through the story. This is laid out really strong and the author gave us all the completion we could have wanted.
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
What a whirlwind of a story! I think I experienced every emotion in this one.
**skip this part if you aren’t going to read the blurb!**
Tessa finds out her husbands cheating, and a category 4 hurricane is about to hit her house. What a shit turn of events, right? Well it gets better.
I’ve never been a woman scorned in this capacity. But I wholeheartedly believe I would react in the way Tessa does. I won’t give specifics because that would be rude, but I loved Tessa and all her angst and anger.
But in the same breath that I love Tessa with, I feel for Lindsey. I see a lot of myself in her. (No, I’ve never been with a married man!) I feel her insecurities, and her struggles. Maybe we’ve all been there, or maybe it’s just me.
Courtney Cole does a bang up job of bringing this gut wrenching story to life. The characters are real, and the whole story just comes to life with her words.
I’ve never lived through a hurricane (duh, Wisconsin doesn’t get them) but I felt as though more damage would have been done to the house? That kinda bothered me a little. As well as the fact that Tessa supposedly got all the shudders up and latched, but later in the book they’re looking out the window? Again, I don’t know anything about hurricanes, or boarding up windows but I thought that strange.
If it’s not already obvious, I thoroughly enjoyed this messed up tale. I never want to be Tessa in marriage, but I’d love to be Tessa in personality and strength.
I hope to have a follow up story, as well. Because I still have questions.
Courtney Cole, if you see this, bravo! You’ve outdone yourself with this one.
**skip this part if you aren’t going to read the blurb!**
Tessa finds out her husbands cheating, and a category 4 hurricane is about to hit her house. What a shit turn of events, right? Well it gets better.
I’ve never been a woman scorned in this capacity. But I wholeheartedly believe I would react in the way Tessa does. I won’t give specifics because that would be rude, but I loved Tessa and all her angst and anger.
But in the same breath that I love Tessa with, I feel for Lindsey. I see a lot of myself in her. (No, I’ve never been with a married man!) I feel her insecurities, and her struggles. Maybe we’ve all been there, or maybe it’s just me.
Courtney Cole does a bang up job of bringing this gut wrenching story to life. The characters are real, and the whole story just comes to life with her words.
I’ve never lived through a hurricane (duh, Wisconsin doesn’t get them) but I felt as though more damage would have been done to the house? That kinda bothered me a little. As well as the fact that Tessa supposedly got all the shudders up and latched, but later in the book they’re looking out the window? Again, I don’t know anything about hurricanes, or boarding up windows but I thought that strange.
If it’s not already obvious, I thoroughly enjoyed this messed up tale. I never want to be Tessa in marriage, but I’d love to be Tessa in personality and strength.
I hope to have a follow up story, as well. Because I still have questions.
Courtney Cole, if you see this, bravo! You’ve outdone yourself with this one.
This book was very good. The story itself was good. I would say I would have want to know more of the story at the end for it to continue. But it was a good book at the end of the day!
Most people who have experienced infidelity have at least thought about confronting the other woman or man, about getting answers, and about some kind of revenge. Most people have to think about the consequences of certain actions, about how doing what they really want to do would affect their children and others around them, about where they go from here - but what if they didn't? That's where Mine comes in. Some things about the story were a little over the top, and in all honesty, I didn't agree with the actions of any of these characters. However, having been in Tessa's shoes, I can understand what drove her. As for Lindsey, the other woman, we get her story in a series of flashbacks throughout the book. Of course, we aren't meant to like her, but it's pretty clear that she's a bit unhinged. Oh, and let's not forget that everything other than Lindsey's flashbacks are happening in the middle of a category four hurricane, and the man in the middle is stuck in New York, so intervention isn't coming any time soon. All of that creates a tension-filled atmosphere, and regardless of how I felt about any particular character, I couldn't help but cheer a little for Tessa at times, and even though I hate to admit it, I felt a bit sorry for Lindsey at certain points in the story. In the end, we don't exactly get a clearly defined outcome, especially for Tessa, but it is fitting given the circumstances, and if you're like me, you'll put yourself in Tessa's shoes and ponder what you think should come next.