2,5/5. This is the second time I read Karen Hamilton and I read enough to know that I won’t read her in the future. Not that she is a bad writer, I honestly think she improve from her previous one in the overall construction of her book.
My problem with it, is more of a genre problem than anything else. The domestic thriller category as expanded in crazy proportion over the last couple of years. And now we get too many things in it, like the YA category, which might need some sub-genre. For me a domestic thriller is a thriller with smaller proportion that involves ordinary people, in more or less ordinary situation. No psycho killer, no cop, the best example of it are Gillian Flynn Gone Girl and Paula Hawkins Girl on The Train, which is the best two that come into mind. Shari Lapena as written decent one too. But Karen Hamilton writes what I would call, new sub-genre, Housewives thrillers. Which is mostly soap with a «thrilling» twist. Closer to romance, lot of domestic rich life, nothing much happening, adultery always a huge thing, etc. This isn’t a bad thing, there is a huge bunch of potential readers for those, but I think that mixing them up in the same genre, is just confusing for readers and will get people to buy/read book that wasn’t for them, and that’s why those book often get very low or very high rating, not much middle/average one.
So, really not for me, I wouldn’t recommend it, but better than her first, so if you like The Perfect Girlfriend than you should have a look at this one.