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The House of Mirrors by Erin Kelly
3.0
One of them has killed before. One of them will kill again
In the sweltering summer of 1997, straight-laced, straight-A student Karen met Biba - a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. A few months later, two people were dead and another had been sent to prison. Having stood by Rex as he served his sentence, Karen is now married to him with a daughter, Alice, who runs a vintage clothing company in London. They're a normal family, as long as they don't talk about the past, never mention the name Biba, and ignore Alice's flashes of dark, dangerous fury. Karen has kept what really happened that summer of '97 hidden deep inside her. Alice is keeping secrets of her own. But when anonymous notes begin to arrive at Alice's shop, it seems the past is about to catch up with them all ...
This was a good story and I enjoyed reading it overall but I did find it dragged in places I had high hopes after loving The skeleton key but this didn't quite live up to that for me. I think maybe because I haven't read The poison tree maybe lost of my enjoyment here. With this one I will be picking up The Poison Tree to give that a go. This is definitely a slow burn but still an ok read.
Thank you to Netgalley, Hodder and Stoughton and Erin Kelly for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
In the sweltering summer of 1997, straight-laced, straight-A student Karen met Biba - a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. A few months later, two people were dead and another had been sent to prison. Having stood by Rex as he served his sentence, Karen is now married to him with a daughter, Alice, who runs a vintage clothing company in London. They're a normal family, as long as they don't talk about the past, never mention the name Biba, and ignore Alice's flashes of dark, dangerous fury. Karen has kept what really happened that summer of '97 hidden deep inside her. Alice is keeping secrets of her own. But when anonymous notes begin to arrive at Alice's shop, it seems the past is about to catch up with them all ...
This was a good story and I enjoyed reading it overall but I did find it dragged in places I had high hopes after loving The skeleton key but this didn't quite live up to that for me. I think maybe because I haven't read The poison tree maybe lost of my enjoyment here. With this one I will be picking up The Poison Tree to give that a go. This is definitely a slow burn but still an ok read.
Thank you to Netgalley, Hodder and Stoughton and Erin Kelly for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.