I listened to this on audiobook and perhaps that has coloured my opinion of it but I found this thriller to be very slow moving. I kept waiting for something to actually happen. And waiting. And waiting. We are in France with a group of uni friends celebrating their 40th birthdays and along the way we discover the various ways in which they have all been lying to each other. Suspicions are raised, secrets are unearthed until finally, one of their number is bumped off.
The problem was, I didn’t actually like many of the characters. The husbands were irritating, the children whiny and annoying and the four women were unlikeable for the most part. The main premise of the plot was that our main narrator, Kate, starts to suspect her husband of having an affair after finding dubious messages on his phone. But rather than ask him about it, she decides to do some investigating of her own. Nothing annoys me more in books or tv, than the tired trope where everything would be sorted if the characters just sat down and had a conversation.
The writing was also far too descriptive for me, sentence after sentence about the scenery rather than advancing the plot. I listened to the end in order to find out whodunnit but it honestly didn’t shock or surprise me which was rather disappointing.
A very average thriller and won’t be reading any more of this authors work.
The problem was, I didn’t actually like many of the characters. The husbands were irritating, the children whiny and annoying and the four women were unlikeable for the most part. The main premise of the plot was that our main narrator, Kate, starts to suspect her husband of having an affair after finding dubious messages on his phone. But rather than ask him about it, she decides to do some investigating of her own. Nothing annoys me more in books or tv, than the tired trope where everything would be sorted if the characters just sat down and had a conversation.
The writing was also far too descriptive for me, sentence after sentence about the scenery rather than advancing the plot. I listened to the end in order to find out whodunnit but it honestly didn’t shock or surprise me which was rather disappointing.
A very average thriller and won’t be reading any more of this authors work.