BLOG TOUR : BOOK REVIEW - In Her Words by J.S.Ellis

Although she seems to have it all,a beautiful home,loving,devoted (but seemingly a bit controlling) husband and no money worries,Sophie Knight is very unhappy and is looking for more. She is also a (barely) functioning alcoholic. Maybe if she had been able to stop drinking for five minutes and remembered that the old saying The grass is always greener on the other side is just a myth and you really should be careful what you wish for. Then maybe she wouldn't have ended up with her perfect life being shattered into a million tiny pieces.

After a night out,Sophie wakes up and discovers that she has bruises on her body and the dress she had been wearing is torn and covered in mud. Sophie has no memories of what happened the previous night. Was she attacked,assaulted,has she been raped.

Does she go to the police,tell her husband,nope not Sophie Knight,instead she embarks on a torrid on again/off again affair with one of the young men she met at the club that night,gorgeous,carefree Michael Frisk.

Only things take a nasty turn when Sophie starts receiving unsettling notes and mysterious phone calls. Who can she turn to,who can she trust? Because a deadly enemy has Sophie in their sights and is prepared to go to any lengths to destroy her seemingly perfect life.

The story is told from Sophie's point of view and in the form of entries into her journal. Because the story is only told from Sophie's perspective therefore her alcoholism makes her a very unreliable narrator,the reader is unsure if the other characters were who they appeared to be. I struggled to feel any sympathy for Sophie as her life collapsed around her because it was her own selfish behaviour that caused her downfall. Millions of women have experienced the pain and heartache that Sophie had endured,including myself, and have survived without turning to the bottle or embarking on a torrid affair. All affairs cause is heartache,pain and misery and the situation is made even worse when the person who is having the affair does what Sophie did and insists that they still love the person they are cheating on. It's difficult to say much about the other characters because the reader's perceptions of then are rather one sided. Is Richard are controlling as he seems? Is Michael as immature as he appeared to be? Could Sophie really trust her best friend Sylvie? Who wanted to tear apart Sophie's seemingly perfect life and why?

In Her Words is a well written,debut thriller that hooks the reader in from the first page. Admit it,any book where the forth line on the first page is "I'm in trouble" is going to have most readers instantly hooked. The characters were vivid and realistic,the chapters were short and snappy and the story flowed well. The reader is kept guessing about the identity of Sophie's tormentor and that person's identity was a unexpected twist. I really enjoyed this gripping thriller and look forward to reading more of this author's books in the future.

                                                           ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J.S Ellis is a thriller author. She’s currently working on an

adult Dystopian series called the Chaperone. She’s also

working on another thriller novel, for now, it’s called

Opium, as it’s still a wip.


J.S always liked to scribble from a young age but started

writing by the age of sixteen. She spent all this time,

enhancing and learning about the craft. Writing is her

passion books are her obsession.


She has a degree in Creative Writing, English literature,

and digital marketing. She works in an accountancy firm.

She lives in Malta with her fiancé. When she’s not writing

or reading, she’s either cooking, eating cheese, and

chocolate, or listening

to good music and enjoying a glass of wine or two.

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Twitter : @Joannewriter

PUBLICATION DATE : 7th May 2019
PRINT LENGTH : 336 pages
PUBLISHER : Black Cat Ink Press
GENRE : Psychological Thriller

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