Living and Loving After Betrayal: How to Heal from Emotional Abuse, Deceit, Infidelity, and Chronic Resentment
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Betrayal has many faces, including anger, abuse, deceit, and infidelity. If you've recently left a...
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We Shall Not All Sleep
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Build the best tiny town in the West in this town and engine building game for 1-4 players that...
Man 2.0: Engineering the Alpha
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What would you say if you knew there was ONE solution to every man’s most vexing problems? -...
The Broken Window (Lincoln Rhyme #8)
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Quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back in a chilling new thriller from the master of suspense,...
The Black Lily
Mandy Burkhead and G.D. Burkhead
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Courtesan. Spy. Assassin. Across the Kingdom of Arestea, the shadowy league of professional...
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated The Life She Wants in Books
Nov 21, 2021
Now, whilst at first this might seem to be a negative, let me reassure you that if you stick with it, everything falls into place very nicely and the confusion was well worth it in the end.
Told from different perspectives over different timelines, this is a complex storyline which deals with various unsavoury but important and contemporary themes; coercive control, domestic abuse and loss. These are hard-hitting subjects but Mel deals with them with respect.
There are a number of characters and all have a part to play but I found I didn't really focus on them that much as I was more interested in the story and how it was going to play out. That's not to say they weren't great characters, far from it, it's just that the story was so engrossing that they felt secondary to me somehow.
Full of secrets, lies and manipulation, this is a book that makes you angry and sympathetic all at the same time. It's definitely one that kept me totally engrossed and I couldn't read fast enough.
With atmosphere, suspense and tension aplenty, this is a book that I would definitely recommend to lovers of psychological thrillers and I have to thank Bookouture and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest, unbiased and unedited review.
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