She kept me on the edge of my seat (or bed) and although Nora is an unreliable narrator, this story just kept me guessing the whole way through and I really didn’t see that ending coming! It was completely unpredictable and as soon as I finished the book, I genuinely couldn’t believe what I had just read. I did love the way that Ware wrote this thriller. I’m not really making this book sound read-worthy am I? Ok, let’s get onto the good points before you go clicking off! Tom was the stereotypical gay best friend which really really irritated me: because a popular, fashionable woman always has to have a gay best friend who is in the theatre, right? NO. She was this self-absorbed, stuck-up, big-headed character that I just wanted to be gone.
“They just get more punctilious about hiding their true selves.”Ĭlare was… ugggghhhhh. “People don’t change,” Nina said bitterly. I felt so sorry for her and I can relate to everything that she was going through and I would love to see this whole book from her perspective. She seemed to suffer from anxiety, depression and OCD (please correct me if I’m wrong, guys!) and when the hen-do didn’t go the way she had imagined it to, she thought that she was the worst friend in the world and that she had let the whole of Clare’s life down. Flo also seemed like she had so much potential to be a deep character. She was quick witted and never failed to make a remark and something that was being said by one of the other people in the group. Nina was this awesome, dry humoured, sarcastic character that I instantly fell in love with. To be honest, I think all of the characters annoyed me apart from Nina and Flo. I mean… What is this about her being hung up on her ex for 10 years?! After only being with him for six months? That’s just crazy. She seemed like the type of person that I would meet and then just instantly dislike. There was something about the character of Nora/Lee/Leo (WHO KNOWS?!) that really irritated me.
The first fifty pages of this book seemed to drag on for absolutely ages. Is this a chance for Nora to finally put her past behind her? Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare’s hen-do arrives. Not since Nora walked out of school one day and never went back. So why did I only end up giving it three stars? Nora hasn’t seen Clare for ten years. One of the main things that I read being thrown around the blogosphere was that this book was an absolutely brilliant crime novel and it would keep you guessing until the very end.
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