Review: Sinister thriller
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2014
I really didn't know what to expect from this book. It's a mystery thriller with many different emotions running through it. Yvette and her family live in Texas. They share a fence with a cranky women they've nicknamed Cruella she moans when their dog barks and the kids are too noisy. One day a mystery package arrives and Yvette discovers it belongs to Cruella.Cruella's real name is Mona and when Yvette deliveries the package she finds a strange lonely woman who has a tale to tell. Mona invites Yvette to her house and begins a spine chilling story. Yvette becomes hooked by the tale and Mona drip feeds her instalments each day. However all Yvette's instincts are on high alert, something's not right.A second story evolves, Yvette's life is mundane and she's becoming estranged from her husband. Memories of her childhood and relations with her mother surface as the book continues. Yvette is appalled by Mona's tale but each day she's left on a cliff edge and like a drug she wants to hear more. But who is Mona? She tells Yvette about the Taliban spy's lover and her relationship with Professor Ahmed Jaffar.Yvette believes Mona may have suffered from the Stockholm syndrome. Feelings of affection of a kid-napping victim for their captor. With the family away camping Mona's tale comes to a shocking end. One which makes Yvette flee, but running won't keep Yvette and her family safe.I was never sure if Mona could be trusted or not, and like Yvette my instincts saw red. This was a very clever tale which turned eerily sinister.This book was purchased on Amazon.co.uk