Blurb:
… the water was red and translucent, like when you rinse a paint brush in a jam jar. The deeper into the water, the darker the red got. No, the thicker it got. It wasn’t water, it was human. It was Cath. Cath is dead, but how and why isn’t clear-cut to her best friend, Kayleigh. As Kayleigh searches for answers, she is drawn deeper into Cath’s hidden world.The (D)Evolution of Us questions where a story really begins, and whether the world in our heads is more real than reality.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
As you may have guessed from the blurb above, this a thriller and is a book within a book and is a tight, well paced thriller told from three different viewpoints from two different timezones.
Without giving too much this is a book that without doubt touches on some pretty full on issues – domestic violence and abuse of the worst kind and crippling mental illness all present throughout the book and although powerful didn’t make life easy for itself in places.
Although I didn’t quite click with the three main characters, the pacing throughout the book was good and it carried it along quite effectively despite I had a few misgiving about all of the characters.
I particularly liked the use of Cathy with her segments being referred to as Cathy’s Diary which gave it a bit of a icy distance which I think worked really well.
Weaknesses, Although I thought the journey of the book worked really well from A to B to C and I feel it was good rather than great if that makes sense, there was a reference to one of the characters suffering a topic right at the end off the book that was responsible for their problems which I won’t go into too much which jarred somewhat as there was no real build up to it and to be honest underpinned the book somewhat and cost it two marks in my final review.
7/10
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