2 out of 5 stars
Read April 2014
Reviewed as an ARC from Goodreads - with thanks.
I
really wanted this to be good and it sounded fantastic reading the blurb but sadly, I have been left disappointed.
The writing was easy. When I say easy, I mean a single syllable word was always used where something a little more challenging would have been appropriate.
The story is told in two character narrative. It doesn't work. Neither of the characters are sympathetic, both are needy, self obsessed pains in the backside. The back and forth between the characters was far to much like that other, overrated work,
Gone Girl. There was always the hint of depth but it never quite eventuated.
The nefarious, or meant to be nefarious, Cozimo, seems to be a clone of Count Fosco from the
Woman in White</>. I am not so naive I cannot recognise where inspiration has struck but this is so blatant it is almost insulting and in many ways, a thumbing of the nose to say, look how clever we are.
This is definitely not the criminal thriller I was expecting. It is cheap, holiday, chick lit and I feel like I was conned in a way because the marketing and the cover do not suggest this.
I can see why a lot of people have enjoyed this and rated it highly but it just didn't charm me.
