A review by beccasllibrary
Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce

2.5

Effective as a slow burn thriller that kept me engaged for many scenes but a lot of it felt like filler and I don't feel like the ending was deserved. I did not care about the murder case at all despite it being the focus of many chapters and left me wanting to skip ahead to get back to the real plot. The main character is meant to be unlikeable and flawed but I could not be satisfied with her happy ending because
her getting custody of her daughter
just fixes the fact that she is clearly struggling with substance abuse to the point where she can not be a good parent right now so her ending did not feel good at all. I wanted to route for her, she was clearly going through it, but it felt so rushed to give her a happy ending when so many issues had not been fixed. Can this poor child go stay with a grandparent? Temporary housing? Anything? Not for me but the author clearly has talent and with some polishing I think future works could be great.
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