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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
An alcoholic news anchor called Anna Andrews who will do anything for her career.
There is a murder in Blackdown, a tiny little village in Surrey and Anna is sent to be the correspondent for the BBC. Anna desperately does not want to cover this story but there is no way out and that is when we discover that Anna actually grew up in Blackdown.
DCI Jack Harper now works and lives in Blackdown where he misses the excitement of working in the city and still misses his wife. Jack is quietly pleased that something has finally happened in Blackdown although he is suspicious of Anna and her involvement and then Jack himself becomes a suspect.
This shows us how there are always two sides to the story . . and sometimes even more.
There is a murder in Blackdown, a tiny little village in Surrey and Anna is sent to be the correspondent for the BBC. Anna desperately does not want to cover this story but there is no way out and that is when we discover that Anna actually grew up in Blackdown.
DCI Jack Harper now works and lives in Blackdown where he misses the excitement of working in the city and still misses his wife. Jack is quietly pleased that something has finally happened in Blackdown although he is suspicious of Anna and her involvement and then Jack himself becomes a suspect.
This shows us how there are always two sides to the story . . and sometimes even more.
slow-paced
i thought this was a thriller it was straight up HORROR my mistake for reading it right before bed but it was good though
Listened to on Audible. I liked the 3 narrators, with the murderer's being the creepiest. Lots of nice red herrings. Even though I did predict who the murderer was, there were many many times I thought I was wrong.
As a lawyer, you’d think I’d be all over whodunits/murder mysteries, but this was my first one… and wow, what a shocking welcome into this genre!
The twists and turns, the dead ends that actually revealed more than they seemed, and the Easter eggs scattered throughout all made this a phenomenal read. I literally couldn’t stop listening to the audiobook, which was particularly well done with the murderer’s chapters being read by a narrator using a voice changer. Totally added to the mystery, and had my brain scrambling trying to solve it (apologies to my boyfriend for the sea of texts he received as I worked through it). An obvious 5 stars for me.
The twists and turns, the dead ends that actually revealed more than they seemed, and the Easter eggs scattered throughout all made this a phenomenal read. I literally couldn’t stop listening to the audiobook, which was particularly well done with the murderer’s chapters being read by a narrator using a voice changer. Totally added to the mystery, and had my brain scrambling trying to solve it (apologies to my boyfriend for the sea of texts he received as I worked through it). An obvious 5 stars for me.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A psychological thriller that starts out with the murder of one woman in a quaint English village. The story alternates between the perspectives of three main characters: Anna Andrews, a newsreader who is reluctant to cover the case and who looks to be a potential next victim of the murderer, and D.I. Jack Harper, who is placed on the case but almost immediately becomes a suspect in the investigation. The third main character is the killer, who could be either Jack or Anna or neither. Feeney is rather good at blindsiding the reader whilst still leaving more than enough breadcrumbs throughout the story. It is not something most mystery writers excel at and this quality makes her novels (and especially this one) even more engaging.
The twists were crazy… but what Rachel, Zoe and Helen did was so disturbing I couldn’t stomach most of it
More like a 3.5-4. Fun summer read, especially the last third of the book. Lots of twists. I prefer this one to "Sometimes I Lie" - it had better pacing. The ending definitely surprised me, but in a way I found it anti-climatic.
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I guessed the twist. Even with the double fake out at the end, I still guessed it. It really wasn't hidden that well. Every time someone says the ending will surprise you, just imagine the least likely person in the book and you'll likely be right.
I wasn't about this one. The first hundred pages were glacially slow and then everything got dialed up to eleven. It's like Feeney went through every single trigger/trope in a thriller novel she could get her hands on and threw them in the novel (I wonder if she wants to compete with Karin Slaughter or something...).
Barely anyone is redeemable in this novel. The two protagonists are horrendous people but the kicker was the childhood friends. I saw someone refer to them as 'Deranged Plastics' from Mean Girls and that's right on the money. But it's so unbelievable.Feeney does everything she can to make those girls so unlikeable and cruel that we can't help but believe they deserved their fate. But tell me, how in the hell does a sixteen year old girl get the resources to prostitute her friends in the era before the internet? And then how is Helen considered cruel? For all we know her drug addiction was her way of coping because her friend was selling her for sex and blackmailing her.
And then we get to the true innocent of the novel.Catherine deserved so much better. Anna painted herself as the true victim of Rachel and in a way she was because she didn't have the tools to identify what Rachel was doing to her but Catherine was what Anna believed herself to be. Catherine worked through her trauma, got a top job at the BBC, got married, and had two children. And what did she get? Murdered and framed to have killed the other women and her husband. So now her two young daughters are orphaned and will grow up believing their mother was a psycho who murdered their father. Catherine deserved the world and she got shit on.
And then there's Anna and her fucking mother. I called the murderer being the mom because no one would suspect the lady suffering from dementia! The ending was so infuriating because Anna did not deserve her do-over family because you just know Olivia will always be the replacement for her dead daughter. Why is it we have to follow the Gone Girl formula for this shit? Can we just put it to rest, please?
I wasn't about this one. The first hundred pages were glacially slow and then everything got dialed up to eleven. It's like Feeney went through every single trigger/trope in a thriller novel she could get her hands on and threw them in the novel (I wonder if she wants to compete with Karin Slaughter or something...).
Barely anyone is redeemable in this novel. The two protagonists are horrendous people but the kicker was the childhood friends. I saw someone refer to them as 'Deranged Plastics' from Mean Girls and that's right on the money. But it's so unbelievable.
And then we get to the true innocent of the novel.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Child death, Lesbophobia