Reviews with content warning for Toxic friendship - The Breakdown

Cass is returning home in the middle of a storm after a night out with work colleagues. To get home quickly, she decides to use a shortcut road through the forest, a shortcut that her husband asked her not to use because of the danger. If the car broke down, there would be no way to call for help as mobile phones don't work in the forest & very few cars use it. But needs must, so Cass uses the shortcut, & sees a car in a layby with a woman at the wheel. She pulls over to offer help but doesn't get out due to fears about decoy traps, & the woman doesn't ask for help at all. Eventually Cass drives home to phone the police & let them know the woman is out there, but she has been having memory problems, & she forgets & goes to bed, but the next day she hears that the woman was murdered. After the incident, Cass's memory starts to deteriorate to the point that she fears she has early-onset dementia like her mother did. She is also receiving silent phone calls & she wonders if the killer saw her stop that night, & is after her too.

I loved Bring Me Back by the author, but this one is very disappointing. The writing style is still up to par, but the main character was irritatingly passive, & the plot was so obvious, I figured it all out after 2 chapters & only read to the end to see if I was right about everything.

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