Alice has a seemingly perfect life. But for the memory of her dead husband and her current husband never really being able to fill his shoes, all is well in paradise. She has the cars, the house, the children, and the best friend. Or does she?
Okay I liked this book but there are a couple of small problems with it. Granted I am reading the ARC edition, but I doubt that something like this they would have changed in the first edition. The problem that I had is the world building and detailed descriptions. Simply put, there is none. One minute they're in London and then the next second they are in Tokyo with not even a hint of description. Not about the airport, none about the flight, no detail whatsoever. This happens throughout the book and in my personal opinion needs to be fleshed out a little bit more in order for the reader to completely immerse themselves into the story and the book as a whole. I also think that the sex scenes could have been fleshed out a bit more. If the author had gone into a little more detail it would have added to the steaminess of the story itself and fed more to the reader's emotions. This book is literally just a straight story. There is no detail to wrap it up and there is a lot of dialogue in the story. Which is totally fine and it works for this type of book but it leaves the reader wanting a little bit more to the story. The other pet peeve that I had is just a personal one and that is in the beginning Alice continues to go on and on and on about her ex-husband who has passed away to the point where it is an obsession. I'm sitting here reading this thinking "why on Earth has she gotten married again? It's been 10 years and you are remarried girl you need to move on!" But then you get to the ending and it kind of all makes sense the way that the author wrapped up the ending in a nice little terrifying bow. Although elements of the ending were frightfully predictable, I still found it a bit surprising when it finally got to the portions where the final revealing was happening. So it was indeed written very well on that point. The characters were also very well developed and by the end of it you really do feel for what happens to each of the characters at the final standoff. All things considered I'd say this was a pretty good book. I would recommend it to those who like a romantic thriller.
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