Firstly
I would love to say thank you to Yasemin at Aria for letting me be a part of
this #blogtour. I am rather partial to a bit a crime fiction and this book
certainly didn’t miss the mark.
Synopsis:
A breathtaking,
heart-pounding, dark debut, sure to delight fans of The Girl on the
Train and Before I Go To Sleep.
When Anna, a much-loved teacher and mother of two, is left savagely beaten and in a coma, a police investigation is launched. News of the attack sends shock waves through her family and their small Swedish community. Anna seems to have had no enemies, so who wanted her dead?
As loved-ones wait anxiously by her bedside,
her husband Erik is
determined to get to the bottom of the attack, and soon begins uncovering his
wife's secret life, and a small town riven with desire, betrayal and
jealousy.
As the list of suspects grows longer, it soon
becomes clear that only one person can reveal the truth, and she's lying silent
in a hospital bed...
My
review:
Brilliant book. What more can I say?
Every page and every chapter took me on a journey I wasn’t expecting. I
changed my mind about each character so many times my head is still spinning now.
The book begins with Anna being attacked. Whilst she is lying in a hospital
bed in a coma, we start learning about the people around her. We learn about
her husband Erik, who drove me absolutely potty and I can only describe as Anna’s
third selfish child, who on the surface seems like the devoted husband. Nut has
secrets of his own.
We learn about her student Daniel and his unhealthy obsession with her,
but who could blame him, taking into account his own painful background.
And we also start learning about her other relationships - the ones from
Anna’s second life that she hides from everyone else.
This book journeys into the deep, dark corners of every character’s soul
and takes you through all their dirty laundry, their deepest secrets and desires
and just proves that not all is what it seems.
I don’t like giving the plot away and you wouldn’t want me too. This
book is a page after page of discovery and really worth the read. Very clever
writing with many plots and twists and turns. Just my cup of tea – surely life
would be boring if we could work everything out from the start?
Thank you to the author and Aria Fiction for access to this book in
return for this honest review.
My rating: 5/5
About the author:
Born in Sweden,
Jessica moved to London at the age of 18 to obtain a BSc Hons degree in
Publishing and Business. She worked in publishing in the UK for a number of
years before heading to Chicago where she edited a magazine for expats.
Back in Sweden, she completed a Masters in Creative Writing. Since 2010,
Jessica has taught journalism and media at a local university, and
has spent the last five years as the marketing and PR manager for a
British firm. Last year, she was one of the winners in the Montegrappa
Prize for First Fiction at the Emirates Airline Festival of
Literature. Jessica is married with three spirited children, and
although she's known for her positivity, her writing tends to be rather
dark!
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Website:
www.jessicajarlvi.com
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