Review: What it takes to make a brilliant read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2013
This is the 4th of Terry Tyler's books that I've read, and I think it is my firm favorite. Told very cleverly from different characters' viewpoints throughout, Tyler deftly moves us through events in the love life of a Karen - a character who it is not always easy to like, but who is written in such a way it's impossible not to root for her. What I LOVED about this book was the way the author keeps you guessing right to the end - although on the surface this is contemporary women's fiction (although it is not restricted to a genre at all), it has just enough of a darker edge to lift it out of the predictable plotting of many of the books I've read. You literally don't know what this author is going to do with - or to! - her characters, and I found that very refreshing. There is no sentimentality, the reader is left to judge events for herself. And apart from all of that, it's a great read! I finished this book in a couple of days and I found it hard to put it down. Highly recommended.