~*Never Have I Ever by Lucy V Hay*~
3.25 stars out of 5
Thank you to Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for allowing me to read an advanced cop on this novel in exchange for an honest review.
Sam,her husband Mo and their toddler Caleb move have recently moved back to her seaside home town after 23 years. She should be overjoyed. After all she has an understanding and kind husband and a child that they went through so much to have. She is also a successful mystery writer. For anyone looking in from the outside she has a wonderful life. The truth is Sam and Mo are falling apart. Having to go through the IVF treatments to have their beautiful baby put a strain on their marriage,,love life and has put them in debt. If all of that isn't bad enough Sam has to finish almost a whole book by late September and we are in late August. Then there are the letters...... You see, when Sam was a teenager she and her best friends played a game called "Never Have I Ever". We have all played but Sam and her friends took it to the next level and something terrible happened. Someone has never stopped playing the game and they are out to make Sam pay for what happened when she was teenager.
I really wanted to read this and though I did enjoy it enough to give it three stars there was something lacking. This book had all the things I love in good thriller. It is set in England, has a twisted cat and mouse game and many suspects but there was something that was missing. I am certain that there are many others that will love this but it just left me wanting something more. There seemed to be so much where nothing really happened and there was also my kryptonite in the form of a main character I didn't care for. There were points in the novel where I thought something big would happen but it never did. I wanted a bigger pay off. It was still a fun read.
Thank you to Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for allowing me to read an advanced cop on this novel in exchange for an honest review.
Sam,her husband Mo and their toddler Caleb move have recently moved back to her seaside home town after 23 years. She should be overjoyed. After all she has an understanding and kind husband and a child that they went through so much to have. She is also a successful mystery writer. For anyone looking in from the outside she has a wonderful life. The truth is Sam and Mo are falling apart. Having to go through the IVF treatments to have their beautiful baby put a strain on their marriage,,love life and has put them in debt. If all of that isn't bad enough Sam has to finish almost a whole book by late September and we are in late August. Then there are the letters...... You see, when Sam was a teenager she and her best friends played a game called "Never Have I Ever". We have all played but Sam and her friends took it to the next level and something terrible happened. Someone has never stopped playing the game and they are out to make Sam pay for what happened when she was teenager.
I really wanted to read this and though I did enjoy it enough to give it three stars there was something lacking. This book had all the things I love in good thriller. It is set in England, has a twisted cat and mouse game and many suspects but there was something that was missing. I am certain that there are many others that will love this but it just left me wanting something more. There seemed to be so much where nothing really happened and there was also my kryptonite in the form of a main character I didn't care for. There were points in the novel where I thought something big would happen but it never did. I wanted a bigger pay off. It was still a fun read.
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