A review by neenor
Bitter Fruits by Alice Clark-Platts

3.0

I'm at odds with how to review this book. When I first started it, I hated it - it was a chance buy from a charity book shop, and from the first page it was clear that the author's writing mimicked my own at age 12 (mimicked in the sense of She picked up her brush and brushed her long, flowing, wavy brown hair. She put down the brush and turned to the door. She stood up - this isn't a quote but it's what it felt like. Not everything has to be described!) So immediately I wasn't impressed. But I'm a sucker for thrillers, even poorly written ones, and I found myself sucked into the story - I wanted to know what happened next, continuously. It became difficult to put down. However, the ending was a bit lame - I hadn't clocked it, but it just seemed a bit poor to me. So overall, I kind of feel indifferent about this book - it wasn't completely awful, but it definitely wasn't good.