A review by marsetta
The Blue Pool by Siobhán MacDonald

3.0

Many thanks to Canelo, the author and Netgalley for the digital copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

What really happened that weekend?
Four friends go to a remote cabin one summer. Only three return.

Life is good for university friends Sarah, Ruth, Charlotte, and Kathy: exams are over and they’re escaping to a cabin by the Blue Pool.

But when Sarah disappears without a trace, life for the others will never be the same again.

Twenty-five years later a man walks into a police station, claiming to know about the missing girl. Suddenly, the three women – now estranged – become suspects. Forced to revisit that horrifying weekend, they must confront buried fears.

For not everything was as it seemed. And the greater the secret, the deeper it lies…

I so wanted to love this book. I really enjoyed Twisted River and I had a high expectation that this book would be just as good. It wasn't unfortunately.

I found this book so slow to start, most of the first 60% was a dull description of student life in Galway which pretty much involved drinking and sex and the majority of it was irrelevant to the story.

This book didn't have the same suspense as Twisted River and I didn't really take to any of the four women. They came across as quite self-absorbed and for seemingly intelligent students they didn't appear to have any sense of the stupid risks they took. Overall I found the story very predictable and it didn't have the type of tension I would expect for this type of mystery and as there were only a couple of real suspects it wasn't hard to predict the ending.

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