I have been reading Lisa Unger ‘s thrillers for many years, even those written before she was married under her maiden name, Lisa Miscione. When I read the first few chapters of Confessions on the 7:45, it reminded me of the Hitchcock film Strangers on a Train where two people agree to ‘deal with’ a problem in each other’s life as there would be no obvious motive and therefore they would be unlikely to get caught.
I must admit that until half way through the book, I wasn’t really sure how the 3 separate women’s lives were connected - Selena, who had caught her husband having sex with their children’s nanny, Geneva, on a hidden camera - Martha, who had been sacked after an affair with her boss’s husband. Then it all slotted into place in a clever, although sometimes too contrived, storyline.
There was rather too much serial adultery, domestic abuse and man hating in this book for me. Every relationship in the book seems to have ended in either divorce or murder.
On a different note, I found the small and close typeface very tiring to read - I prefer a larger font with spaces between the lines. If I hadn’t wanted to read this book in order to post a review, the typeface would have made me abandon it quite early on.
I must admit that until half way through the book, I wasn’t really sure how the 3 separate women’s lives were connected - Selena, who had caught her husband having sex with their children’s nanny, Geneva, on a hidden camera - Martha, who had been sacked after an affair with her boss’s husband. Then it all slotted into place in a clever, although sometimes too contrived, storyline.
There was rather too much serial adultery, domestic abuse and man hating in this book for me. Every relationship in the book seems to have ended in either divorce or murder.
On a different note, I found the small and close typeface very tiring to read - I prefer a larger font with spaces between the lines. If I hadn’t wanted to read this book in order to post a review, the typeface would have made me abandon it quite early on.