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A review by nicolet2018
False Step by Victoria Helen Stone
3.0
I picked this up after the amazing Jane, Doe as the blurb sounded interesting. I liked that this thriller tells the story was a different point of view. What is it like to go virile on social media?
To an outsider, it looks great, you become famous and suddenly all attention is on you. but for Veronica, she wants to keep her secrets. I found it suspicious that her husband was doing badly as a personal trainer and then he finds a missing child and whoosh he becomes the media darling, his sales increases. I suspected he had something to do with the kidnapping. The rest of the family is thrust into the spot light and it gets overwhelming.
Veronica is not a likeable character. She complains that she is in an unhappy marriage and she is only staying for her child, Sydney. She needs something to pull her through and so she embarks on an affair with Johnny's best friend, Micah. Then she becomes this needy mess and keeps needing Micah to reply and respond to her. Argh. I could sympathise with her as she has had to deal with Johnny, his cheating, steroid use and selling and bad friends. But I could also feel the irony that she is repeating what her father did to her mother.
The plot was surprisingly predictable though the writing kept this from becoming a 2.5 stars book. The villain did not make sense and the little explanation at the end felt rushed.
To an outsider, it looks great, you become famous and suddenly all attention is on you. but for Veronica, she wants to keep her secrets. I found it suspicious that her husband was doing badly as a personal trainer and then he finds a missing child and whoosh he becomes the media darling, his sales increases. I suspected he had something to do with the kidnapping. The rest of the family is thrust into the spot light and it gets overwhelming.
Veronica is not a likeable character. She complains that she is in an unhappy marriage and she is only staying for her child, Sydney. She needs something to pull her through and so she embarks on an affair with Johnny's best friend, Micah. Then she becomes this needy mess and keeps needing Micah to reply and respond to her. Argh. I could sympathise with her as she has had to deal with Johnny, his cheating, steroid use and selling and bad friends. But I could also feel the irony that she is repeating what her father did to her mother.
The plot was surprisingly predictable though the writing kept this from becoming a 2.5 stars book. The villain did not make sense and the little explanation at the end felt rushed.