Review: Losing Juliet by June Juliet

Losing Juliet by June Taylor
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

From reading other reviews of this book I know I am in the minority here but I didn't enjoy this book as much as I thought I would after reading the synopsis.I felt no connection to any of the three women Chrissy,Juliet and Eloise.Once Juliet explained her plans for what she and Chrissy were going to be doing during the ill faited trip to France it wasn't hard to work out what was going to happen.There was drawn out descriptions of the scenery in France and Italy that made the book come across as more like a tourist guide than a thriller.There was also sentences in French and Italian that I couldn't read so I had no idea what that character was saying.I know that comes across as me just being picky but when I read a book I like to understand what the characters are saying too each other.

The story is told in the third person and flips back and forth between 1989 and 2007.The chapters set in 2007 are about what happens once Juliete gets in touch with Chrissy and tries to rekindle their broken friendship something that Chrissy is not in the least bit interested in.Chrissy has a teenage daughter called Eloise who cannot understand why Chrissy does not want anything to do with her glamorous best friend and makes it her mission to find out why.After a lot of pressure and nagging from Eloise, Chrissy starts to open up and tell her daughter about the events of 1989,how she met Juliet at University,how they became friends and events during and after their working holiday in France.

There were some elements of the story that I did find intreguing,why was Chrissie so insistent about not wanting anything to do with Juliete and why had Juliete suddenly got in touch after so many years had passed?.There was some interesting twists and reveals in the final quarter of the book including a shocking final twist which is why I have given the book two stars.As I said the synopsis made this sound like my sort of book but unfortunately I am going to have to add it to my list of books in 2016 that could have been better.

Many thanks to Harper Collins UK,Killer reads for a arc of this book via netgalley in exchange for a honest review.