Alison is a barrister with a career on the rise. Having just been given her first murder case to defend, and although her client wants to plead guilty, all is not quite as it seems.
Alison neglects her husband and daughter, preferring to drink her nights away in clubs with colleagues to quiet evenings in with the family. She’s also having an affair with a man who like to push the boundaries, something Alison isn’t sure she’s comfortable with at all.
But someone knows Alison’s secrets, and it seems they’ll stop at nothing to make sure she pays.
I grabbed this book in the 12 Days of Kindle deal on Amazon at Christmas as I had seen it all over the socials, and then there it stayed. Queued up behind all the other ebooks I just couldn’t resist, until this week when a friend said it was a “must-read”!
I began reading and it seemed quite slow to get going. However, I had partly put this own to the fact I was in the middle of redecorating and was only reading a chapter a night when falling into bed exhausted.
Sadly, it was in no part due to my DIY antics, it was just incredibly slow. At 47% it still hadn’t picked up and I’d already begun to surmise the “twist”. As for the murder case, it was so irrelevant to the story Alison may as well have been selling ice creams for a living. I thought the fact that she was a barrister and a seemingly intelligent woman would somehow factor into her character development, unfortunately all it seemed to portray was that high powered women are driven to drink and find difficulty with being maternal.
The negatives of the story aside, I thought for a debut novel the writing was good. However, I would under no circumstances label this as a thriller.
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