This is a terrific book! Boring? NO! Muddled? NO! Draggy? NO!
I always hesitate to start a book that is over 500 pages but O'Brien has weaved a very good story, it kind of has a couple of storylines going you think, but then he brings them together and it makes for good reading.
I wasn't disappointed with it at all, I am a very picky reader and if you've read any of my reviews you know I absolutely hate descriptions! I thought a time or two 'oh no here comes the descriptions' but no, they are very short and weave right into a story that is hard to put down.
I always hesitate to start a book that is over 500 pages but O'Brien has weaved a very good story, it kind of has a couple of storylines going you think, but then he brings them together and it makes for good reading.
I wasn't disappointed with it at all, I am a very picky reader and if you've read any of my reviews you know I absolutely hate descriptions! I thought a time or two 'oh no here comes the descriptions' but no, they are very short and weave right into a story that is hard to put down.
Caterer Laurie Trotter has a stalker. She takes her small son and leaves literally in the middle of the night. Now in a new city and feeling safer, she goes to work catering a movie set based on a true life murder that happened in 1970. The movie set seems besieged with problems one right after the other and thinks these problems are tied to the original murder. When she starts sniffing around for the truth, she finds herself in more danger.
This is not the first Kevin O'Brien book I have read, but it was a bit of a disappointment. After a slow start, it got a little muddled and a little difficult to follow. Dealing in minute detail felt that this should have been 2 books ... one on the original murder and then present day. And I really hate to say it, but there were spots that actually bored me.
I liked the character of Laurie. A war widow with a young son to support shows her strength and willingness to do what she needs to do in order to survive. I think a better story would have started with her marriage and then onto the stalker.
I gave it a 3.5 because some of it was very good, but not enough of those moments.
My thanks to NetGalley / Kensington Books for furnishing a copy of this book in enchange for an honest and unbiased opinion.
This is not the first Kevin O'Brien book I have read, but it was a bit of a disappointment. After a slow start, it got a little muddled and a little difficult to follow. Dealing in minute detail felt that this should have been 2 books ... one on the original murder and then present day. And I really hate to say it, but there were spots that actually bored me.
I liked the character of Laurie. A war widow with a young son to support shows her strength and willingness to do what she needs to do in order to survive. I think a better story would have started with her marriage and then onto the stalker.
I gave it a 3.5 because some of it was very good, but not enough of those moments.
My thanks to NetGalley / Kensington Books for furnishing a copy of this book in enchange for an honest and unbiased opinion.
Meh! Thought it was boring.
Although there are lots of people and secrets and details in this complex story, Kevin O'Brien makes it so easy to follow it all. Great book. Loved the ending !
