bwagner's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed this book. It is my first book by this author, I will be reading more from her for sure. This is a suspenseful, mystery book that left me sitting on the edge of my seat a few times. The twists and turns had me turning pages fast. The characters made the story engaging and realistic. I highly recommend this book, I don't regret picking it up and neither will you.
zooloo1983's review against another edition
5.0
What the frick have I just read!!! Wow, when Mandy said to me this was her darkest book yet she really was not joking!! This was dark dark and darker and I bloody loved it!!
All the while I was reading Dark Deception my head was spinning with all the questions I needed answers to. Well, I got the answers and they were really not what I was expecting at all. This is #CrazyTown to the extreme and it was brilliant. I do not know what to tell you, I can’t give anything away at all. This is most definitely a book you need to read!!
Kerensa appears to have it all, a husband, Leo, who loves her and she has just found out that she has a baby on the way and when Leo comes home she gets to share this amazing news…..however he doesn’t come home that night or any other night. Working for a mobster will do that to you but this story is not so cut and dry as you might suspect from the sentences I just wrote, far from it.
Will, Leo’s best friend, has to break the news to Kerensa of Leo’s folly. I loved Will, all I will say is a rock and a hard place this man has found himself in. Whilst helping Kerensa, he introduces Patrick into her life and this, my readers, is where it all goes a bit Pete tong.
This book had me flying through my Kindle as quick as I could, if I wasn’t being sensible I would have stayed up the night before finishing it but homeschooling/working combo is not good when tired. Instead, I blitz this ending and my jaw drop, a few tears wanted to leak and I had a lump in my throat. I couldn’t get over all the revelations at all, but the biggest shocker of all had been landed yet, and when it did well the mischievous one we know as my Queen of CrazyTown wrote two words which had me screaming……The End……..
Aaaahhhhhhhhhhh!! I have all the feels with this, I am left wanting to know what happens next, I need to know but at the same time I will never know but you are definitely left wanting more. I had to delete a lot of my review because even though I didn’t give anything away I felt like I did. So this is really blinking tough to write! Dark Deception is so true to its title, the deception we have here is way darker than we thought it could be.
This is on par with The Feud for me, I can’t decide between the two, but this will be on my list at the end of the year for sure. This is the dark and twisty mind I love of Mandy. I love how this is a full-circle story, just where you think one storyline has been finished and we focus on the main part, we have a clanger at the end. The ending well, so much I want to say that I haven’t but Mandy weaves you into her web without you realising before cutting it and letting you fall. I love how her mind works and this is no exception. I was transfixed on her writing and I love her storytelling. Suspenseful and it’s like being on a rollercoaster with the breaks being cut, you can not take your eyes from the pages for the fear of what might happen next. I am so excited by this book, it was just so tantalising and intense, just loved it!
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