TW: Terror attack, gun violence, knife violence

I received a free copy of this book from Penguin Ireland in exchange for an honest review.

When Cara is caught up in a London terror attack, she’s pulled to safety by a young woman and in the hours the two are huddled in a dark room together, Cara ends up spilling all her secrets. Then the girl, Amy, shows up at Cara’s workplace and becomes a part of her life just as things start to fall apart.

The opening pages of this book were so terrifying and totally hooked me into this story. I think it’s a situation that has unfortunately become way too much of a possibility of happening to anyone now and really made me as a reader sympathise and form a connection with Cara.

I liked for the most part how the dual narrative played with Amy’s disintegrating frame of mind, and how we knew she was putting together plans to destroy Cara but we didn’t know exactly what those plans were.

I definitely lost my complete devotion to this book about halfway through, I think for a domestic thriller it was a bit on the long side and could have done with being a little bit shorter.