Harriet Tyce Blood Orange: The gripping, bestselling Richard & Judy book club thriller

Blood Orange: The gripping, bestselling Richard & Judy book club thriller Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers by Harriet Tyce with 336 pages .

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Title : Blood Orange: The gripping, bestselling Richard & Judy book club thriller
Brand : Harriet Tyce
Category : Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers
ISBN : 1472252748
Page of number : 336 pages
Publisher : Wildfire (12 Dec. 2019)
Language : English
Dimensions : 12.8 x 2.4 x 19.6 cm

Usually Blood Orange: The gripping, bestselling Richard & Judy book club thriller Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers are sold at a price of 6,99 to 8,99

Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers Blood Orange: The gripping, bestselling Richard & Judy book club thriller by Harriet Tyce JUST ONE MORE NIGHT. THEN I’LL FINISH IT.‘Utterly compelling… I couldn’t put it down’ Lisa Jewell, No.1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs‘A classy thriller with complex and compelling characters’ Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author of I Let You Go‘Twists that keep you frantically turning the pages’ Sunday MirrorBOLD AND SHOCKING, BLOOD ORANGE WILL HOLD YOU IN ITS GRIP UNTIL ITS FINAL, HEARTSTOPPING CONCLUSION.Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise – she’s just been given her first murder case to defend. But all is never as it seems… Just one more night. Then I’ll end it. Alison drinks too much. She’s neglecting her family. And she’s having an affair with a colleague whose taste for pushing boundaries may be more than she can handle.I did it. I killed him. I should be locked up. Alison’s client doesn’t deny that she stabbed her husband – she wants to plead guilty. And yet something about her story is deeply amiss. Saving this woman may be the first step to Alison saving herself.I’m watching you. I know what you’re doing.But someone knows Alison’s secrets. Someone who wants to make her pay for what she’s done, and who won’t stop until she’s lost everything….‘Gripping’ Daily Mail‘Sizzlingly addictive’ Heat‘Delicious and addictive – a perfectly crafted treat!’ Louise Candlish, author of Our House‘Glittering and fierce . . . a glorious bonfire of a marriage thriller’ Irish Times

Yet another overpriced/overhyped book I had mixed feelings about. While Tyce can certainly write I felt overall that the book was ms sold as a thriller. It’s more like a slice of life drama, giving us an insight into the life of Alison, a self-destructive barrister who immediately struck me as a high-functioning alcoholic (the author’s own experience as a barrister gives this book an authenticity that many such legal dramas lack). Yes there is a murder plot involving a client of Aison’sbut that is really pretty mundane – a plot which has been done multiple times before in TV crime shows and novels and it is pretty much side-lined by Alison’s personal dramas. The narrative centres round her relationship with her disapproving husband, her neglected daughter and her affair with a sleazy colleague and it has a car crash quality that makes it compelling reading – drunken karaoke after a dinner with friends? Falling asleep at her desk? Having a meltdown when she finds there’s no alcohol in the mini-bar? It seemed pretty obvious to me that the major problem in Alison’s life is her drinking but this is never addressed. I found it slightly disturbing that Alison’s sees her husband’s request to remove alcohol from a hotel mini-bar, as a way of messing with her mind and this view is never disputed, in fact the ending seems to justify it.The opening pages which introduce the ‘blood orange’ theme nearly put me off the whole thing, they remind me of something out of a bad self-published KU novel (to say nothing of the endorsements from a lot of authors many of whom on my personal avoid-list) – but the book improves drastically from then on. I wouldn’t describe it as ‘heart pounding’ the threatening texts to Alison form a pretty minor part of the story and most of the things that happen to her seem to be down to her own bad judgement. The final twist pretty much comes from nowhere and is supposed to justify Alison’s drunken excesses and self-serving conduct. The final message seems to be that woman can never be wrong only wronged and men are always to blame.The blurb says that this author took writing classes – well in my opinion she needs to take a few more. She has plenty of raw talent but overall I found this book unsatisfactory. The murder plot involving the client needs to be fleshed out a lot more and it needs a new title – the whole blood orange thing feels tagged on to give the book a touch of originality but really plays very little part in the narrative.Just a personal gripe – I’m sick to death of Amazon hyping everything as ‘the best thriller of 2019’ or whatever. As a reader I’ll be the judge of that!

I was attracted to Harriet Tyce’s Blood Orange by positive endorsements that suggested it was a strong example of the ‘domestic noir’ genre. These sorts of books are hugely popular at the moment and there are some brilliant examples out there, but I think it’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. The blurb for this one (and, interestingly, the cover, which steers away from the usual shadowy, black-and-white grainy image with a portentous title across it in neon block capitals) suggested it was a cut above the rest.Unfortunately, I’m now a bit annoyed with myself for being swayed by the marketing, because I found this book disappointing. The protagonist is Alison, a barrister married to therapist Carl, with whom she has a young daughter, Matilda. Alison is having an affair with Patrick, a work colleague: it’s the sort of affair that involves Alison getting drunk after work with her fellow lawyers and then having rough sex in the office before passing out. Carl, left at home to look after Matilda, is understandably unhappy with Alison’s heavy drinking and broken promises, but he’s so sanctimonious and sneering about literally everything – including her cooking, her childcare abilities and her appearance, all of which she actually makes a lot of effort with – that it’s hard to feel particularly sorry for him, particularly while Alison’s well-paid job is financing his career and paying the mortgage on the home in which he runs a support group for men suffering from sex addiction.Riddled with guilt, Alison repeatedly tries to end her relationship with Patrick – who is also awful, by the way – but willpower isn’t her strong suit, particularly when she finds herself working with him on a murder case. The defendant has stabbed her husband to death and fully intends to plead guilty, but Alison is convinced there’s something not quite right about her client’s testimony and is determined to find out the truth. While Alison starts to uncover the truth about the build-up to the murder, she starts to receive anonymous, threatening text messages – and they’re clearly from someone who knows her guilty secrets.As you can probably tell, this is one of those books in which the protagonist is a terrible mess who makes self-destructive, risky decisions – all very The Girl On The Train. However, the problem here is that everyone else in the book is also appalling, and there’s not enough else happening to make this interesting. Carl and Patrick felt like caricatures to me – Carl’s sneering, petty superiority and his earnest talk of his men’s group and their ‘breakthroughs’ are sharply observed, and Patrick’s line-blurring behaviour towards women and subsequent self-pity are also recognisable, but there’s not a lot more to them than that.This isn’t, however, my biggest issue with this book, which is that it is blindingly obvious what’s going to happen. It’s not so much foreshadowed as clearly signposted at every turn. Psychological thrillers like this rely on eerie tension, constant uncertainty and ideally an unforeseen jaw-dropper of a twist, but I found none of these in Blood Orange. Perhaps this a case of an author believing they were writing one sort of book and the publisher marketing it as another.I won’t go on, because I’d have to spoil the plot, but it’s enough to say that I’d be amazed if the outcome of this story surprises many readers and I found myself waiting for a revelation that never came.

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