Marianna S. (Angeloudi) reviewed on 10/4/2015 + 160 more book reviews

I have mixed feelings about this book. Generally, I do not care for books set in prisons or about trials, and this novel is precisely about that! Four wealthy women go to Monte Carlo for a 4-day weekend without their husbands to relax and cut loose. There is little character development to distinguish between Abbie, Serena, Bryah and Winnie. Somehow their weekend of debauchery, cheating, and gambling ends in 2 murders, for which the four women are convicted and incarcerated. We know they are being framed, but we don't know why or by whom. Most of the book is about Abbie, how she is degraded and humiliated, tortured and mistreated in the French prison. The French come off as corrupt, lying, and violent. Miraculously, Abbie manages to escape and spend the last chapters trying to elude the massive manhunt, and to clear her name. One does keep reading to find out what happens, but this is clearly not written by Patterson, and barely resembles his books.

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