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The Swell by Allie Reynolds
4.0
I saw this book mentioned in a magazine and it sounded very interesting. I decided that it was going to be my holiday read.
We meet Kenna who is an ex-surfer just doing life and she finds out that her best friend Mikki is getting married and the whole situation sounds abit off, so she leaves dreary London for Australia and shows up on Mikki's doorstep unannounced. From the get go, their interaction is awkward and what was once a close friendship is strained. Kenna ends up inviting herself along on a beach trip with Mikki and her boyfriend and some of their other friends "tribe mates" and that is where things just go from awkward, to dodgy to bad.
We got to really learn about all the characters, their lives and why they have renounced "life" and just going with the flow and living off the grid, in search of that perfect swell. Kenna starts picking away at the group and learning about them, but digging into matters that she shouldn't be.
The ending really took me by surprise as I didn't expect it, maybe there were some clues that I wasn't paying too much attention to, but was a very good ending.
This book took me awhile to read as it was out of my usual PNR books (been trying to read other books), and really enjoyed it. Definitely worth grabbing a copy.
We meet Kenna who is an ex-surfer just doing life and she finds out that her best friend Mikki is getting married and the whole situation sounds abit off, so she leaves dreary London for Australia and shows up on Mikki's doorstep unannounced. From the get go, their interaction is awkward and what was once a close friendship is strained. Kenna ends up inviting herself along on a beach trip with Mikki and her boyfriend and some of their other friends "tribe mates" and that is where things just go from awkward, to dodgy to bad.
We got to really learn about all the characters, their lives and why they have renounced "life" and just going with the flow and living off the grid, in search of that perfect swell. Kenna starts picking away at the group and learning about them, but digging into matters that she shouldn't be.
The ending really took me by surprise as I didn't expect it, maybe there were some clues that I wasn't paying too much attention to, but was a very good ending.
This book took me awhile to read as it was out of my usual PNR books (been trying to read other books), and really enjoyed it. Definitely worth grabbing a copy.