Published: July 12, 2022
Format: Hardcover
Length: 423 pages
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Characters: Hanna Jones, April Clarke Cliveden, Will, Hugh, Ryan and Emily
POV: Hanna’s, 1st person

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:
⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ dark academia vibes ➺ mystery ➺ murder ➺ dual timeline ➺ love, friendship & betrayal ➺ “who done it?” ➺ set in Oxford ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

Review

The atmosphere was good. It has that dark academia vibes. The dual timeline was well done. However, I didn’t find lots of tension throughout the book, it didn’t make me feel like other thrillers have – excited, needy to know what happened. It was also soooo slow in progressing the plot line, it felt like the author had to meet a certain word count and hadn’t reached it yet, so she padded it with unnecessary “fluff” that didn’t add anything to her story or characterizations. Could have been wrapped up in a third of the time. It was kinda boring and lackluster for me.

❝ You’re never alone in a room filled with a thousand books. ❞

❝ Don’t let yourself get caught up in what-ifs. That way madness lies. ❞

Blurb

April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.

Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the second, April was dead.

Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind her, Hannah’s world is rocked when a young journalist comes knocking and presents new evidence that Neville may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April’s death, she realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide… including a murder.

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