Bria Lou Reviews

  While on holiday in the Yorkshire Dales, a group of six friends find a backpack containing more money than they've ever seen. But when the group becomes split on deciding whether to hand the money in to the police, long-held secrets are exposed, and the friends discover that they don't know each other as well as they thought they did. T.M. Logan is my favourite author, so his books are always pre-ordered as soon as a new one is announced, and this one was no different. Unfortunately I didn't love this one as much as some of Logan's other novels. I did like that it got right into the story. Everything started really quickly, the money was found before we even knew who most of the characters were, which worked in its favour because the story was a lot more interesting than the characters themselves. From the beginning, I was intrigued to see how it would end, but again that was more about the story than the characters. It moved quite slowly after the initial excitement ...

  As I say every year, I absolutely love T. M. Logan. He is my favourite author (sharing first place with Karen M. McManus), and I pre-order his books every year so I can read them as soon as they come out. I didn't love last year's book, 'The Curfew', but I was still really excited to read this one. After spending 10 years in prison for a crime she didn't commit, Heather will stop at nothing to get her sons back and uncover the truth behind her husband's murder. I loved this book. I was excited to read it because I really liked the premise, and thankfully it was executed really well. Usually, I'm not a big fan of prologues, but the prologue for this book is great. It gives nothing away while making the reader want to know more. You get to know and sympathise with Heather really quickly, which just makes you as the reader all the more eager to find out the truth. Without giving anything away, the character of Jodie was probably my favourite of all the charac...