The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
On a wet stormy night Cass is on her way home after spending a pleasant evening with her work colleagues when she decides to take a shortcut down a desolate winding country road.She is almost home when she comes across a car with a young woman sat in it.Cass is concerned about the young woman but can't decide what to do so she decides to go home and contact someone to come out and help the young woman but when Cass gets home she gets distracted and forgets all about the incident.Next day Cass learns that the young woman is dead,then not long afterwards Cass starts receiving silent phone calls and keeps getting the feeling that she is being watched.
The killer is still at large,is Cass just being paranoid or has she been marked as the killers next victim?
I know from reading the other reviews that I am in the minority here but although I did enjoy the book enough to actually finish it I also found it predictable,repetitive and after the first thrilling chapter lacked the tension and twists that you expect to find in a thriller.Cass`s concerns over the possibility that she had early onset dementia were understandable especially considering the fact that her mum had suffered from it before she died but Cass`s mental breakdown happened a bit too swiftly and she was constantly terrified for such a stupid reason.It was hard to feel sympathy for a woman who was supposed to be a teacher and therefore meant to be quite intelligent who constantly overreacted over the smallest of things.I worked out what was going on pretty early in the book,there was no twists and one big coincidence that felt like it was just added to move the story to a conclusion.
I liked the way that what was happening was all explained in the form of text messages instead of by the killer in a long drawn out confession,the title of the book was clever and I enjoyed the opening chapter.Like I said I did enjoy the book enough to finish it and it was well written,it just didn't live up to my expectations.
Many thanks to Harlequin UK Ltd for a arc of this book via netgalley in exchange for a honest review.
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