This is an easy, light psychological suspense read that follows Ellie, an English aspiring actress in NYC who meets Phoebe her doppelgänger. They become friends on an acting course and one day Phoebe asks a strange request: will Ellie be willing to swap places and act in a movie for her? It’s a weird proposal but Ellie agrees. The movie is shooting in Dubai.
It’s a new world for Ellie - private jets, first-class perks and luxury cars - but her excited is hampered and she finds herself desperately trying to survive when things start to go wrong and she overhears a plot for murder…
This was an okay read. Tbh while I loved the premise the execution of the story fell flat for me and failed to materialise. The problem is that it’s too convoluted. You have the swapping places, overhearing plans to commit murder on a movie set and there’s a bunch of natural disasters that happen one after the other. First there’s a storm while the plane is flying, then the protagonist gets into a car accident and then you have the murders and the sand storm. It was too much plot. I wish the author had picked a few. Yet there no tension and stakes don’t really rise. I also felt as the entire book is from Ellie’s POV the writing gets bogged down and baggy quickly as Ellie is such a boring character. I wish there multiple POVs then we’d get a better sense of the characters or if excerpts of script had been included then I would’ve felt more invested in this world.
On the whole an average suspense novel that’s okay for passing time but nothing new or fresh.

This was a roller coaster ride from start to finish, great book and a good author. A good book to take on joliday

A twist filled crime mystery set in Abu Dhabi. The story raced along and I was intrigued to find out what happened next. Suspenseful and a great holiday read.

This book is an absolute riot. Simple premise; en route to Abu Dhabi for a dream flm job, Ellie overhears something. A plan for murder. She keeps stum, then, guess what, there’s an unexpected death. The premise is simple. The story is fast paced and, let’s face it, totally implausible. But it’s a joy to be swept along by writing which depicts a wonderfully exotic location, a host of characters who are all as bad as each other. So many secrets, so many lies it’s impossible to know who to believe or where the story is going next. Ellie isn’t what she appears either and after a short time, I was in a total whirl with what was going on. And there’s the beauty of this book. It’s pure escapism, fast paced, exciting and packed with twists. It’s a roller coaster ride and I enjoyed it, completed in almost a single sitting.

Wow! What a book! I couldn't put it down, read it in one sitting. It was amazing it had me hooked from start to finish!

It was extremely twisty captivating, thrilling, and addictive I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough!
It was an absolutely fantastic, suspense-filled, unputdownable addictive page turner with a wild unexpected twist!

I’d highly recommend this book! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️stars!

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I had a free morning and pretty much inhaled this book in a few hours.
It's over the top and completely unbelievable, but SUCH GOOD FUN.
Secrets and lies everywhere.
You can't trust anyone.
I think my one complaint would be the ending.
Possibly one twist too many.
However, that said, it's exactly the sort of book you can read and rave about with your friends.
Very entertaining.

Before you start reading, you need to take your sense of belief and suspend it. Then just read. Don't question the coincidences, don't question the neat bows. Just read it. If you do that, then I think you're on to a 4 star read. It is bloody chaos. Secrets, manipulations, suspicious and unreliable characters...
The minute you start questioning elements, the rating wavers. It does feel too neat at times. There are one too many coincidences so they start to lose their credibility. A few of the explanations are too out there or hard to believe.

I read about 60% in the first few hours of reading. Like a sand storm, it sucked me in and swirled me around. I wanted to get back to it every time I had to put it down. I remember Five Nights being like that as well. Completely absorbing.