Describing Sweet Fury as a feminist retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night' with the blurb 'The Silent Patient meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this elegant and twisty debut thriller', meant that I was instantly drawn to this book.

The reading experience though didn't live up to my anticipation and I found this to be a slow burn that never quite captured my imagination or my heart. I generally struggle to connect to stories that are stuffed with unlikeable characters, and really struggle with r*pe and domestic abuse as predominant themes. It also didn't help that I personally found the ending to be really unsatisfying as well.

This truly is a stylist literary domestic thriller but it's overwritten at times and unfortunately the high hopes I had for it fell flat. This is one that will likely split readers and unfortunately on this occasion I fall on the side of readers that it didn't work for.

Thank you to Netgalley and Random House UK, Transworld Publishers | Bantam for a digital review copy of "Sweet Fury" in exchange for my honest and voluntary review.