Review: Brilliant thriller!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2014
I absolutely loved this book. It's brilliant. The storyline is so intricate and clever, and must have taken so much planning to get right with all the switching to and fro from the past to the present. There is one twist after the other, very surprising, and always keeping the tension and suspense just right.When we first meet Naomi Stone, she has just got married at the age of nineteen to Nathan, a man who is slightly older. They haven't been together long, but everything seems perfect until Naomi is abducted on her wedding night. Who is the strange man who is keeping her hostage, what does he want from her, and will she ever get away? We find out the answer to these questions and more in this tense thriller. The action is interspersed with flashbacks to Naomi's life before she met Nathan, while she is at music college, and the time leading up to the fateful wedding day.Full of realistic and multidimensional characters, like Annabel, Naomi's twin. Although twins, the girls have little in common. Naomi's two best friends, Siobhan and Lorie, are also very different. Nathan and Dan, although brothers, again could not be less alike. Naomi's mother Camilla is overbearing, wanting to control her daughters' lives. There is an underlying theme of people and things not being what they seem.Other themes include family relationships, particularly dysfunctional families; betrayal; revenge; secrets; lies.If you like psychological suspense, you should read this book. It's an engrossing read that will keep you entertained, and will keep you guessing. It's a book to be savoured because it's not very fast-paced, but more detailed and full of depth.I think the ending was perfect. I certainly didn't see it coming. With the many interesting characters and relationships in the book, it would lend itself well to a sequel.Thoroughly enjoyable and very well written.