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A review by obsidian_blue
I Would Die for You by Sandie Jones
1.0
Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
Trigger warning: Rape
This was just....not good. I have given Jones 4 stars before, and everything else has been 3, but this one I could not give more than a 1 star rating to. Most of this book makes no sense, it's people being really really dumb, and just twists for twists. That ending was some Lifetime Movie thing. I wish Jones had added a "camera moves away from the house and all you can hear is the sound of X screaming." It was just a mess. I think we needed more insight into the character of Cassie. There was too much happening there in her scenes for me honestly.
"I Would Die For You" follows two women in separate time periods.
Time period one takes place in 2011 with a woman named Nicole Forbes. Nicole lives in CA with her husband and 8 year old daughter. One day, a young woman shows up asking her questions about someone named Ben Edwards who was a member of the biggest band (fictional) in the UK in the 1980s. Nicole refuses to discuss it and then starts to panic when she realizes her young daughter is missing.
Time period two is London in 1986. We mostly follow Cassie, a 16 year old girl who is obsessed with said fictional band and the singer Ben Edwards. Cassie is in love with him and wants to be with him. However, her sister, Nicole, is the one in the family who can sing and when Ben hears her, he starts to pursue her.
I don't know what to say here beyond both Nicole and Cassie are messy people. Both Nicole and Cassie are written poorly IMHO and just selfish. I can see parts of Cassie in the 1980s, but even with some of the things going on, I got really tired of her point of view. Jones also did not develop Nicole's husband or Ben to me at all. They just are stand-ins to keep the plot moving.
The flow between the two time periods did not work. I think because we have Nicole in one, and Nicole and Cassie in the second one. Maybe it would have worked better if it stuck strictly to Cassie's POV so when we get twisty and reveal-ly later it would have worked? Jones usually takes her time setting a scene, but I think starting off with BIG SECRET that takes forever to reveal killed the flow of the book.
The ending was a mess. It just didn't read as finished to me.
Trigger warning: Rape
This was just....not good. I have given Jones 4 stars before, and everything else has been 3, but this one I could not give more than a 1 star rating to. Most of this book makes no sense, it's people being really really dumb, and just twists for twists. That ending was some Lifetime Movie thing. I wish Jones had added a "camera moves away from the house and all you can hear is the sound of X screaming." It was just a mess. I think we needed more insight into the character of Cassie. There was too much happening there in her scenes for me honestly.
"I Would Die For You" follows two women in separate time periods.
Time period one takes place in 2011 with a woman named Nicole Forbes. Nicole lives in CA with her husband and 8 year old daughter. One day, a young woman shows up asking her questions about someone named Ben Edwards who was a member of the biggest band (fictional) in the UK in the 1980s. Nicole refuses to discuss it and then starts to panic when she realizes her young daughter is missing.
Time period two is London in 1986. We mostly follow Cassie, a 16 year old girl who is obsessed with said fictional band and the singer Ben Edwards. Cassie is in love with him and wants to be with him. However, her sister, Nicole, is the one in the family who can sing and when Ben hears her, he starts to pursue her.
I don't know what to say here beyond both Nicole and Cassie are messy people. Both Nicole and Cassie are written poorly IMHO and just selfish. I can see parts of Cassie in the 1980s, but even with some of the things going on, I got really tired of her point of view. Jones also did not develop Nicole's husband or Ben to me at all. They just are stand-ins to keep the plot moving.
The flow between the two time periods did not work. I think because we have Nicole in one, and Nicole and Cassie in the second one. Maybe it would have worked better if it stuck strictly to Cassie's POV so when we get twisty and reveal-ly later it would have worked? Jones usually takes her time setting a scene, but I think starting off with BIG SECRET that takes forever to reveal killed the flow of the book.
The ending was a mess. It just didn't read as finished to me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape