3.5 Stars from me
This book has a myriad of tricks up its sleeve and the overall story is brilliant and darkly intoxicating.
I found it a little reminiscent of Rebecca, but not strongly so, more of a vague scent of Rebecca hung loosely in the air.
The bulk of the story is in a remote castle, focused around Mrs Langdon who is suffering amnesia and finds herself in a pure white room, wearing a white robe and with no idea how or why she is there. Her day to day life is not spent with her husband but with a lady who takes her through a series of ‘remembering’ sessions and it really isn’t clear what her motives are and whether she even likes Mrs Langdon.
As much as I loved the intrigue and psychological element of this book, I found some of the day to day ‘remembering’ to be too repetitive – albeit I understand that is what it was intending to get across but even so it made the mid section drag, for me.
Overall this was a clever story with lots of mystery and intrigue and I was definitely compelled to keep reading to find out what on earth had happened.
My thanks to the author, NetGalley and Boldwood Books for an ARC in return for an honest review.
Blurb: The wife is always the last to know… What if everything you believed was a lie? Your life…your marriage…your very existence.
What if the person lying to you is your husband, the man who claims to love you more than anything in the world?
Isolated in his remote Scottish ancestral home on the pretext that you are psychologically fragile and recovering from a breakdown, this home has become a prison. As the days slip by in a haze of confusion and a cocktail of drugs administered by a loyal housekeeper, you begin to piece together the fragments of your life and stumble on a terrifying secret.
What if you discover you weren’t his first wife, and nor will you be the last? That he plans to replace you, to make you disappear – just like the first wife. Just how far would you go to save your life and prove your husband’s a murderer?
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