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ellie_yarde 's review for:
The Text
by Claire Douglas
Emily has been looking forward to her girls weekend for months, and now her boss, Andrew, is saying he’s not sure she can have the time off. When Emily mistakenly sends a furious message meant for her boyfriend to her office group chat, including a typo leading to the sentence ‘I hope he dies’, she is mortified. But when police show up on her doorstep the following day, saying that Andrew is dead and that they are questioning his colleagues, she is more than just mortified - she is scared.
There are only a few people who saw the message Emily sent, only a select group who know about her typo, and the implications it holds when Andrew is found dead. A list of suspects, tied up in a neat bow, and you’re not sure who to trust and who not to. There were a good few twists in this story, ones that make you have to restart your brain from the beginning as it tries to solve the murder. Some things are thrown off course, and nothing seems to come to a conclusion until the author wanted it to, keeping me firmly engrossed in the story as I tried to get ahead, and failed. The characters felt incredibly real, especially with how they were affected by Andrew’s death. It chilled them, that someone they knew had been murdered. This story did not take me very long to read at all, maybe about half an hour, so it is the perfect quick mystery to guess about as you read it.
There are only a few people who saw the message Emily sent, only a select group who know about her typo, and the implications it holds when Andrew is found dead. A list of suspects, tied up in a neat bow, and you’re not sure who to trust and who not to. There were a good few twists in this story, ones that make you have to restart your brain from the beginning as it tries to solve the murder. Some things are thrown off course, and nothing seems to come to a conclusion until the author wanted it to, keeping me firmly engrossed in the story as I tried to get ahead, and failed. The characters felt incredibly real, especially with how they were affected by Andrew’s death. It chilled them, that someone they knew had been murdered. This story did not take me very long to read at all, maybe about half an hour, so it is the perfect quick mystery to guess about as you read it.