Most of our group finished this book and found it a quick enjoyable read. A well written ‘who-dun-it’
We were engaged immediately with the story, but felt it went downhill a little in the middle, mainly because of the amazing recuperative abilities of Jodie {the main character}. This made it a little cartoonish – as in Tom and Jerry. Her physical abilities after her hospital stay were rather unbelievable. Jodie was a powerful woman, perhaps too powerful to get our sympathies and none of us felt an empathy with her. We felt that we would like to have had more information on the controlling behaviour included in the book and felt that many things were glossed over with none of the characters really being “fleshed out” sufficiently. Perhaps Ms McCarthy was trying to include too many strands into the book. The ending was a surprise to most although many had already guessed that the daughter was still alive.
Whilst verging on the fantastic in some places the general consensus was that it was a well written, easy to read, page turner and we did enjoy the book. We gave it a mark of 7 out of 10.