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A review by bushph
The One Night Stand by Carissa Ann Lynch
3.0
Thank you to NetGalley UK and Harper Collins UK for providing me with an ARC of this book. A salways, all opinions are my own and honest.
So this starts off with a very interesting premise - Ivy wakes up and finds a man next to her in bed, but unfortunately he's dead and she can't remember how he got there or what on earth happened last night. But that's where it ended because she didn't call the bloody police! It annoys the hell out of me when something like that happens and the first things any sane person would do is call the police and yet for some reason, the main character doesn't?! We do find out some things that happened in her past but I still didn't think these constituted her not calling the police.
This book flips between being told in the past and present which confused me at first, but all soon became apparent as the stories started to inter-weave and we found out more. I have to admit when I first started reading about the story in the past, I did roll my eyes. I just felt like it had maybe been done several times before but I did like the way this trope was done in this instance so props to this book.
I did enjoy the premise of the book and enjoyed the ending but I did find some parts of this just a bit OTT. There was also Ivys relationsip with her ex-husband where we kept seeing hints towards him being abusive in some form in the past but I feel like it was never fully fleshed and felt like it could have just been chucked in to try and add a bit more drama to the story so I would have liked to see some more back story to help flesh this relationship and connection out. I also found the involvement of her daughter towards the end of the book just completely unrealistic and over the top.
I didn't think this book was bad however there were just certain aspects to this story that just didn't sit right with me and seemed overexaggerated and meant that I didn't enjoy it as much as I could.
So this starts off with a very interesting premise - Ivy wakes up and finds a man next to her in bed, but unfortunately he's dead and she can't remember how he got there or what on earth happened last night. But that's where it ended because she didn't call the bloody police! It annoys the hell out of me when something like that happens and the first things any sane person would do is call the police and yet for some reason, the main character doesn't?! We do find out some things that happened in her past but I still didn't think these constituted her not calling the police.
This book flips between being told in the past and present which confused me at first, but all soon became apparent as the stories started to inter-weave and we found out more. I have to admit when I first started reading about the story in the past, I did roll my eyes. I just felt like it had maybe been done several times before but I did like the way this trope was done in this instance so props to this book.
I did enjoy the premise of the book and enjoyed the ending but I did find some parts of this just a bit OTT. There was also Ivys relationsip with her ex-husband where we kept seeing hints towards him being abusive in some form in the past but I feel like it was never fully fleshed and felt like it could have just been chucked in to try and add a bit more drama to the story so I would have liked to see some more back story to help flesh this relationship and connection out. I also found the involvement of her daughter towards the end of the book just completely unrealistic and over the top.
I didn't think this book was bad however there were just certain aspects to this story that just didn't sit right with me and seemed overexaggerated and meant that I didn't enjoy it as much as I could.