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A review by jellichor
His & Hers by Alice Feeney
2.0
2.5*
“ If there are two sides to every story, someone is always lying…
Jack: Three words to describe my wife: Beautiful. Ambitious. Unforgiving.
Anna: I only need one word to describe my husband: Liar. “
The first Alice Feeney book I read was Rock Paper Scissors and it was brilliant - SO TWISTY - and then I absolutely devoured her most recent release, Daisy Darker. To say I was expecting great things of this one is an understatement! Serves me right. I know not to have too high expectations of any book, regardless of the author or their past works.
This is one of those books where anyone and everyone - all of them unreliable - could be ‘the killer’ as there are SO MANY red herrings scattered everywhere. I was slipping and sliding all over them so much that I ended up full on ignoring them as I was working everything out - I was doing it at such a speed that I’ve no idea if there were actually any reveals throughout the book. If there were, then I missed them as I’d already guessed it all and so wasn’t surprised by any of it. I finished this book but only because I was holding out for the big reveal and had faith that it was going to deliver at some point… it didn’t really. I mean it’s twisty, but in a somewhat weak way, so I literally think I said ‘meh’ out loud when it finally happened in the last few pages.
I will definitely read more of Alice Feeney’s books but this one just wasn’t for me - far too much show and no tell. I felt the blurb gave one vibe but delivered another - instead of a twisty secret filled relationship surrounded by murder mystery, it was heavily centred around flashbacks to AWFUL teenage female friendships which was NOT what I was here for, and felt unnecessarily over the top. There’s convincing motive story telling - then there’s unrealistic 2 dimensional ‘bad’ characters. That’s just not how human beings are made up. This one had too many of the latter for me. But still a well written, entertaining read (if that’s your thing) with enough red herrings to keep you turning the pages!
“ If there are two sides to every story, someone is always lying…
Jack: Three words to describe my wife: Beautiful. Ambitious. Unforgiving.
Anna: I only need one word to describe my husband: Liar. “
The first Alice Feeney book I read was Rock Paper Scissors and it was brilliant - SO TWISTY - and then I absolutely devoured her most recent release, Daisy Darker. To say I was expecting great things of this one is an understatement! Serves me right. I know not to have too high expectations of any book, regardless of the author or their past works.
This is one of those books where anyone and everyone - all of them unreliable - could be ‘the killer’ as there are SO MANY red herrings scattered everywhere. I was slipping and sliding all over them so much that I ended up full on ignoring them as I was working everything out - I was doing it at such a speed that I’ve no idea if there were actually any reveals throughout the book. If there were, then I missed them as I’d already guessed it all and so wasn’t surprised by any of it. I finished this book but only because I was holding out for the big reveal and had faith that it was going to deliver at some point… it didn’t really. I mean it’s twisty, but in a somewhat weak way, so I literally think I said ‘meh’ out loud when it finally happened in the last few pages.
I will definitely read more of Alice Feeney’s books but this one just wasn’t for me - far too much show and no tell. I felt the blurb gave one vibe but delivered another - instead of a twisty secret filled relationship surrounded by murder mystery, it was heavily centred around flashbacks to AWFUL teenage female friendships which was NOT what I was here for, and felt unnecessarily over the top. There’s convincing motive story telling - then there’s unrealistic 2 dimensional ‘bad’ characters. That’s just not how human beings are made up. This one had too many of the latter for me. But still a well written, entertaining read (if that’s your thing) with enough red herrings to keep you turning the pages!