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A review by mariasmusings
You Never Said Goodbye by Luca Veste
3.0
Initial thoughts:
You know that you have enjoyed a story when you are torn between supporting a character and wanting to take them aside to talk about their behaviour! And that is precisely my reaction to the latest novel my Luca Veste.
The novel opens with a terrible car accident some decades ago, resulting in the deaths of all involved. And then we jump into the present a d meet Sam Cooper a young English man who is startled to receive a phone call alerting him that his father has been attacked and is now in hospital. Travelling to his old home town from London, Sam soon learns that the attack was not a random burglary and instead his father was the victim of a targeted attack. It's not long before Sam is also under attack and learns these attackers are looking for his mother. Except his mother died in a car accident some twenty years earlier. Or so they have always believed. Now Sam is returning to his mother's home, to track down his remaining relatives and try to discover the truth before he too is killed.
I found myself intrigued by the idea that Sam's mother could still be alive - how could she possibly have hidden for two decades? And why? Was her husband wrong all along?
It's difficult to say more without giving away key elements of the plot but I will say that there are characters that I did not like - more anti-heroes than typical heroes, I guess. And this works well as we sympathise more with Sam and his situation.
Definitely an enjoyable read and a thriller that will keep you guessing.
You know that you have enjoyed a story when you are torn between supporting a character and wanting to take them aside to talk about their behaviour! And that is precisely my reaction to the latest novel my Luca Veste.
The novel opens with a terrible car accident some decades ago, resulting in the deaths of all involved. And then we jump into the present a d meet Sam Cooper a young English man who is startled to receive a phone call alerting him that his father has been attacked and is now in hospital. Travelling to his old home town from London, Sam soon learns that the attack was not a random burglary and instead his father was the victim of a targeted attack. It's not long before Sam is also under attack and learns these attackers are looking for his mother. Except his mother died in a car accident some twenty years earlier. Or so they have always believed. Now Sam is returning to his mother's home, to track down his remaining relatives and try to discover the truth before he too is killed.
I found myself intrigued by the idea that Sam's mother could still be alive - how could she possibly have hidden for two decades? And why? Was her husband wrong all along?
It's difficult to say more without giving away key elements of the plot but I will say that there are characters that I did not like - more anti-heroes than typical heroes, I guess. And this works well as we sympathise more with Sam and his situation.
Definitely an enjoyable read and a thriller that will keep you guessing.