📕 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 📕 𝗟𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗘 by Helen Phifer ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 Today I'm sharing my thoughts about Lakeview House, as part of the Bookouture book tour. My thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for my choir of the book in exchange for an honest review. 𝗠𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 As a fairly new fan of the author, I was looking forward to reading this book. I found it to be suspenseful and hard to put down. I always had to read that little bit further. I liked the different plots on the go at the same time. What impressed me was that none threatened to ruin the others until the inevitable clash. There were some good twists throughout that I didn’t see coming, and a couple which almost telegraphed their approach enough for Chris Rock to have had time to grab his crash helmet before Will walked onto that stage. Maddy is escaping her violent ex Connor, so taking on a caretaker role in the Lake District hundreds of miles away made sense. I think she was the only character I liked. I didn’t know what to make of some of the characters though. I didn’t necessarily dislike the them, although Connor was clearly scum so I won’t spare him another word, and Maddy’s alleged best friend Stella proves to be a bad friend at best, and at worst she withheld information putting Maddy’s life in danger. No character felt superfluous, and they were all three dimensional, although one or two and their actions stretched credibility. My “suspension of disbelief” did take a mild battering. I’ve seem some reviews criticising grammar or spelling. In fact the two examples I read of poor spelling used were actually proper English and quite correctly spelled. What I didn’t do was let anyone influence my personal experience of this book, which was one of enjoyment. Overall, I think this was a gripping read, which I’m happy to recommend to readers of thrillers and mysteries. I gave Lake View House, by Helen Phifer, four stars. My blog with additional book and author info is live. 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗤𝗥 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲. #ad #gifted #lakeviewhouse #helenphifer #bookouture #mystery #thriller #johnsbookshelf (at Southampton, England, U.K.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcJdbILKL5C/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
