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A review by malika203
Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Bailey
4.0
Really enjoyed the book!
I just wish the villains were given more depth. Tessa made sense, there felt like groundwork placed for her. She felt really clingy and too involved with Nicole. But Greg as a bad guy felt like an after thought. It's like Tessa said about it always being the husband, it was an easy out for him to also be bad. I would have loved to have had a chapter where it flashes back through all the evil stuff that happened, or at least shown how Greg was involved. He just up and leaves, which in and of itself was for sure bad for Nicole's mental stability, but even that isn't really emphasized.
Also personally not a fan of the added romance at the ends, it would have meant more if Morgan and Ben stayed friends or something. It could have been two people facing loss as friends and confidants, but this made it seem like they were only lonely for love, not connection. Again just my opinion as someone who doesn't love romance in thriller type books. Also some of the dialogue can be cheesy, but it's very sporadically so.
My favourite thing about the book was how well the perspective changed. I thought the length of chapters and content given in each chapter was really well done. One character was not overshadowing or more interesting than the other, there was equal investment and time put in them. While reading one chapter I wasn't just hoping to get back to the other story, there was enough excitement for me personally within both stories. Also I don't know if this was a conscious choice of the author or if I just wasn't super observant, but I really liked how there was minimal description. There was enough where I knew exactly what was happening and knew what different environments looked like, but flowery words weren't wasted on describing things I was gonna ignore anyways. For context, one thing I tend to ignore is character descriptions and use my own head canon in 99.99% of books (barring important factors), and here I didn't even know one of the girls had black hair until closer to the end.
In conclusion, definitely recommend this book and look forward to reading more from a fellow Torontonian.