I had absolutely no idea what to expect with this book.
As an Arc I didn’t really read the blurb because I want to be surprised on what the book is about so I can review everything.
This meant that by page 2 I was utterly and completely confused. This book is set in a dystopian future, it must be, but timelines are never really set so I have no idea what year it’s set in. All I know is that prisoners are held in cells at their victims houses to help the prisons population problem.
This in itself is weird. Deborah O’Connor managed to fully explain what happened to make this happen however, that it was a trail government scheme that somehow happened to become law.
This book however had one point that annoyed me - but it wasn’t anything to do with the story or the writing. It’s the whole “my best friend and my husband had an affair”. I truly truly believe that if someone is your best friend, you’d never do anything to hurt them because that bond would be too strong. And having an affair with their partner wouldn’t ever cross your mind. A lot of books use this theme as it’s easy to create the shock factor but seriously, these people can’t call each other friends; let alone best friends.
The rest of the book, however, was lovely. I thoroughly enjoyed a new perspective on a dystopian prison sentence and it was written very believably. As though the author fully believed this was how the world was.
And we all love a forbidden romance, don’t we?
As an Arc I didn’t really read the blurb because I want to be surprised on what the book is about so I can review everything.
This meant that by page 2 I was utterly and completely confused. This book is set in a dystopian future, it must be, but timelines are never really set so I have no idea what year it’s set in. All I know is that prisoners are held in cells at their victims houses to help the prisons population problem.
This in itself is weird. Deborah O’Connor managed to fully explain what happened to make this happen however, that it was a trail government scheme that somehow happened to become law.
This book however had one point that annoyed me - but it wasn’t anything to do with the story or the writing. It’s the whole “my best friend and my husband had an affair”. I truly truly believe that if someone is your best friend, you’d never do anything to hurt them because that bond would be too strong. And having an affair with their partner wouldn’t ever cross your mind. A lot of books use this theme as it’s easy to create the shock factor but seriously, these people can’t call each other friends; let alone best friends.
The rest of the book, however, was lovely. I thoroughly enjoyed a new perspective on a dystopian prison sentence and it was written very believably. As though the author fully believed this was how the world was.
And we all love a forbidden romance, don’t we?