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blackcoffee_andgoodbooks 's review for:
Blood Orange
by Harriet Tyce
I have really mixed feelings about this one and I’m still not entirely sure what the focus of the plot was really because there were just so many things happening at once.
The main character is very unreliable and frankly, just not a good person. Her priorities seem very messy and I don’t think she’s ever clear on what she wants but it’s also apparent, that she’s going a lot going on and no healthy way of dealing with anything.
She has terrible taste in men and there was so much gaslighting and emotional abuse, with instances of physical abuse too. I couldn’t for the life of me understand why she wanted to fight so hard for them to be in her life when she was clearly a very successful and powerful woman, perhaps drummed down by the abuse.
Overall, it was a harrowing story but there was a bit much going on for me personally. The ending was very well done but I would have liked there to be more of a focus throughout as I was never sure whether her life or the court case was meant to be centre stage.
The main character is very unreliable and frankly, just not a good person. Her priorities seem very messy and I don’t think she’s ever clear on what she wants but it’s also apparent, that she’s going a lot going on and no healthy way of dealing with anything.
She has terrible taste in men and there was so much gaslighting and emotional abuse, with instances of physical abuse too. I couldn’t for the life of me understand why she wanted to fight so hard for them to be in her life when she was clearly a very successful and powerful woman, perhaps drummed down by the abuse.
Overall, it was a harrowing story but there was a bit much going on for me personally. The ending was very well done but I would have liked there to be more of a focus throughout as I was never sure whether her life or the court case was meant to be centre stage.