Another brilliant book by this author! I was gripped from the first page and raced through it. Now to wait for her next one!

Could not put this book down, read it in one afternoon!! Brilliant plot, great characters, builds up suspense! Did not see the twist coming until very near to the reveal.

A brilliant opener that hooks us in as a bride jumps over a cliff during her wedding party – so it’s sad that this wimpers out about a third of the way in into a by-the-numbers tale of female besties/rivalry, undying love, lies, deception and a ‘who can you trust?’ narrative so quickly. The l-o-o-o-n-g flashback life-story of Evie from the age of 5 onwards gets increasingly operatic and my heart sank every time we returned to it.

Throw in grammatical errors mixing up ‘I’ and ‘me’, ‘she’ and ‘her’ (though I was reading an ARC so hopefully these will be ironed out before the book is published), and some confusion over when an important event happened (it’s given as 4 years ago, 6 years ago, and 9 years ago) which changes the age of our protagonists: I think, on balance, 4 is used most often which makes them 22-23, which feels about right for their emotional (im)maturity.

I was hooked at the start but this increasingly felt like a chore to read and I found myself skimming through to the expected ending – a bit trashy, a bit YA, if you read a lot in this genre, you’ll have seen it all before: 2.5 stars.