Yes, I was originally sold on it by the plotline description and the number of five star reviews it had received, but if I had started to read the much smaller number of really negative reviews first, I would never have picked up the novel in the first place, and that would have been a shame. While maintaining a persona as a brilliant and kind lawyer, Jack makes his marriage to Grace seem perfect by forcing her to appear doting and lovely in public with his friends.

It had all the potential for a really exciting read and handled well, this could have been one of those "edge of the seat" all encompassing experiences that are becoming an increasingly rare occurrence in books I read these days.

An avid listener of Agatha Christie audiotapes, Millie has pretended to have a sleeping issue, but has actually been hoarding the pills to then pass along to Grace. Soon their family will grow when Millie, Grace’s little sister who has Down’s syndrome will come to live with them. But it's written in a way that keeps the pages turning, even if the plotting and details are a bit loose and the characterization not hugely complex.

Okay, actually it did get a tiny bit slow in the middle, but it could have just been my discomfort (super nail-biting unchiness) that made me want it to go faster so I could see what happened.

Every time I put the book down I tried to figure out how this horrific monster would possibly be defeated. Diving into the spoiler >>>> "Molly could only have been dead a few days at the most, because her body hadn't started to decompose. We step back to try and clear the air of the noxious fumes, but we and our senses are held hostage by the toxicity of what lies beneath this panoramic view.

Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U. I don’t know what this says about me, but I was kind of disappointed that we never truly got to see what Jack was capable of. It didn't feel as though any real surprises were uncovered; it was pretty much what anyone would have expected from the introduction provided. It transpires that Jack and Grace have been married just one year and that Grace gave up her job (a job she admits she loved) so that she could be home more often to support her husband. She runs and is able to lure him into the basement, and, dazed by the pills, Jack is unable to react quickly enough before she closes him in.Set in large grounds at the far end of the village, it gives Jack the privacy he craves, as well as the privilege of owning the most beautiful house in Spring Eaton. That all said, Paris's exploration of a convoluted, complex world of domestic abuse gives rise to what is becoming more and more apparent is a very hidden issue.

Since joining our circle of friends a month ago, I'm sure she's been told over and over again that Grace Angel, wife of brilliant lawyer Jack Angel, is a perfect example of a woman who has it all — the perfect house, the perfect husband, the perfect life. Although I'm clearly not a fan, the crocodile-skinned lady, and many on Goodreads, absolutely loved it. By shifting between the revelatory rather than romantic honeymoon and Grace’s life in the present, when Jack keeps her locked in their beautiful Spring Eaton home, Paris underscores Grace’s seemingly unassailable predicament, especially with Millie soon coming to live with the couple.

Though Grace has promised to visit Millie in the hospital on the way to the airport for their honeymoon, Grace feels guilty that she marries without her younger sister present. And while this is not completely unrealistic and I could believe he would go to such trouble to create his "fantasy", the mindless villainy of him, plus his penchant for showmanship, verges on a caricature. He and Adam met Rufus at the golf club a couple of weeks ago and invited him to join them in a game.