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A review by rosabeccs
Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
3.0
Greenwich Park centres around two women, Helen and Rachel, who meet in an antenatal class. Rachel is immediately full on, attaching herself to Helen and showing up wherever Helen goes. Helen is torn between being glad to have a friend she can share pregnancy with, and the looming sense that something isn't quite right.
This was a interesting mystery that did just about manage to keep me guessing. I was eternally circling the answers the whole time which made it feel slightly less satisfying, but there were enough red herrings that I happily never quite got there.
The atmosphere it created was spot on. Just like Helen, you know something seems off about Rachel but I would also have brushed it aside like she does. The suspicion and the tension are kept at a great level throughout and it's one of those thrillers you'll inhale over a couple of days.
Where it ends up going is a wild ride, but the downside is that it feels like an overly familiar plot. It falls back onto some tropes that aren't quite comfortable which is a shame, and it never totally blindsighted me in the way I wanted.
Thanks to Bloomsbury for the ARC through Netgalley.
This was a interesting mystery that did just about manage to keep me guessing. I was eternally circling the answers the whole time which made it feel slightly less satisfying, but there were enough red herrings that I happily never quite got there.
The atmosphere it created was spot on. Just like Helen, you know something seems off about Rachel but I would also have brushed it aside like she does. The suspicion and the tension are kept at a great level throughout and it's one of those thrillers you'll inhale over a couple of days.
Where it ends up going is a wild ride, but the downside is that it feels like an overly familiar plot. It falls back onto some tropes that aren't quite comfortable which is a shame, and it never totally blindsighted me in the way I wanted.
Thanks to Bloomsbury for the ARC through Netgalley.