Chloe Flynn, divorced, broken and underachieving at work, recieves an invitation to her school reunion. She is reluctant to revisit the years of bullying, a twisted ex and 15 year old secrets that she'd much rather stay buried but she is swayed by the hope of reconnecting with old friends and Nathan, the one that got away. However, if the threatening emails are anything to go by, someone clearly doesn't want Chloe to attend and as the evening progresses secrets begin to emerge... Nothing is what it seems and nothing will ever be the same again!

Dean Bradley, a grieving, single dad who's last construction job left him riddled with debt. He is determined to make the one who ruined his life pay, whatever the cost and nothing is going to stand in his way.

Review- This was a fast paced read (at only 220 pages long) told in dual POV's, as well as snippets in the past from a mystery POV. At first the connection between all 3 leaves you guessing but come the second half and revealed pretty quick, with one twist after another. Although I had already worked out all but 1 reveal, it still had me hooked but i did expect it to be a little darker. What let it down for me though was the ending, it was very abrupt and frustrating, all i kept thinking was "Is That It?!". I even had to check the last few pages to make sure I hadn't missed any😅

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Getting Away with Murder by Kathryn Foxfield

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I really liked the idea of this book. However it did feel like it was almost identical to the Escape Room films I've seen, just with an AI twist which I feel let down the surprise element of what should have been plot "twists" as I kind of already saw them coming/guessed them. Georgia was irritatingly annoying, as was Saffron the small snippets we got from her.

Although I did enjoy the concept and it was a fast, easy read i was prepared to give it a 4 star rating but the ending took off the extra star. It was pretty abrupt and disappointing which felt like there wasn't any conclusion at all. Especially the motives of the murderer basically being that they are an incel.

They always say its the quiet ones you have to watch out for, which fit the murderers stereotype to a tee. Even though the conclusion was that stereotypes are flawed and were assigned to the players under a face value illusion, it was actually this specific stereotype that made the murderer obvious to me from roughly 1/3 of the way through reading.

Trapped by Sophie McKenzie

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tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

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