Treviggen

Treviggen is a brutal and sensual romantic thriller, set in the rural Cornwall of some decades ago. The premise of this book sounded interesting from the very beginning. It was a quick, easy read, it had everything a thriller needs and the romance was a great addition.

This was an enjoyable read that was well written with an engaging and compelling plot and well developed characters. The setting was fabtastic and really added an extra layer to the atmosphere. This book was dark and brutal and yet also romantic in its own way. It really depicts what can happen if someone get s more than they bargained for. It was a wild ride of a book and I would def recommend reading it.

The windswept cliffs and bleak moors of Cornwall have often added a dark tone to a certain type of novel and never has it worked better than in Treviggen.
This is a thriller overflowing with twists and turns and shock revelations but it is also a romance with a difference. Despite all the unlikely and unexpected plot elements the author makes this work with extraordinarily good characterization. I absolutely love this novel and can't wait to see what this author writes next.

Thrilling does not do justice as a way to describe this intense, fast paced ride of a book. So much happens and it is much darker than the blurb led me to think when I started to read it. Challenging the bounds of credibility in a way which made it seem very credible indeed, the author takes us into the protagonist’s life and experience so deeply that you will want to read in one sitting just to find out her fate.

Wow......that was a unique plot! There was a little of something for everyone in there.....romance, chase scenes, very bad characters.... & good ones too, weirdness/strangeness, a great setting, & mystery. At times I was not happy with the way things were going, then I really came to like how it progressed, then could see trouble brewing again.....it really was an intriguing read, all the way through it. I thought that the little bit I read about the book prior to reading it, didn't really do justice to the actual read......it was all kind of a surprise to me.....so I think I'll just leave it at that.....a surprise for the next reader! It says on the front of the book 'a romantic thriller'........& I'd have to say "It is that!"
I received an e-ARC of the book from Matador via NetGalley in return for reading it & posting my own fair & honest review.

Treviggen by Edward John Fuller was billed as a romance/thriller. It was really so much more. In fact, it missed nothing. There was death, grieving, perversion, love, children, romance, running from crazies, and many other things as well. It was not a simple story, het it was. Annabelle and her mother had a contentious relationship, often true when the daughter is in her late teens. They had lost Stephen, Emma's husband, and Annabelle's father ten years earlier in a freak swimming accident. Now they were stuck in this Cornish cottage that had been Stephen's dream. Emma was an outsider. The locals like Annabelle; who wouldn't? Annabelle had a boyfriend who was a total waste of space. Raefe was not a good guy. So not good that when Annabelle crashed the car she was driving, he, the passenger, had taken off. He hung with minor gangsters. Emma hated him. So much so that she killed him. She hadn't meant to, but she did. Emma's story moves on from her, much of it really endearing.

Emma was 45 years old and conservative. She taught some classes at night school: art; she also painted landscapes that sold moderately well. She had no friends. She drove a car that was continually on its last legs. She had buried her husband and her daughter. What was about to happen to her was beyond her wildest imaginings. A woman who felt sorry for her invited her to a 3-week-long stay at a spa nearby. She enjoyed it but she felt uncomfortable. But, then, she was uncomfortable much of the time. She slipped into a surreal world at the spa. There she was kidnapped, tortured, and made an escape she couldn't really comprehend. She was little more than lifeless. A lot happened in the story. The sum total of which was probably unlikely, although pieces of it made sense. It was a thriller, but it went from one extreme to another. If one out it down in the wrong place coming back would have the reader turning back to see where they were. It was an interesting read.

I was invited to read a free e-ARC of Treviggen by Matador, through Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are mine. #netgalley #matador #treviggen #edwardjohnfuller