For the most part I really enjoyed this book. In fact there were just two things that I really didn’t like about it. Firstly the identity of the killer – it was something I worked out about half way through the novel and which I desperately hoped wouldn’t come to pass. It just didn’t really work for me and I was more than a little bit disappointed by it. The second thing that I didn’t like so much was that the novel didn’t really tie everything up. I don’t necessarily want everything to be rosy at the end of a book but there is a part of me that wants to be able to put the characters to rest in my head with a definitive ending and I just didn’t have that here – or at least not with Poppy. I wanted to see what happened with her parents and if she was able to improve that relationship and I didn’t totally believe the reunion with Bella and Logan. It just seemed to perfect and I would have liked to see how it developed not just them walking in together. I suppose with Serena things were a little better. Her ending seemed more definite.
I loved the way the novel was crafted that we slowly learnt more and more about the relationship between Serena and Marcus and Poppy and Marcus and finally the three of them together before that fateful night. I think the relationship between Serena and Poppy is also very interesting – how Serena tried in many ways to protect Poppy.
I also really liked the relationship between Poppy and Alain although it was painfully obvious why he was with her from the moment he met up with her. However, I grew too really like their relationship. I’d love to know what happened with them.
Ultimately I much preferred Poppy to Serena and found her to be far more interesting. It’s not that I was disinterested in Serena I just related more to Poppy and found myself desperately hoping that Poppy would in fact be innocent as she claimed to be.
This was a very gripping story with twists and turns. I enjoyed it just as I have enjoyed other Dorothy Koomson novels. She is a great storyteller.
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