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A review by dhw_ani
The Seduction by Joanna Briscoe
3.0
2.5/5
Beth and Sol live in London with their daughter Fern. Beth is an artist and she's been getting calls from an unknown number. Her daughter Fern keeps acting stranger around her and hides what's on her phone. Sol convinces Beth to go to therapy so as to deal with her demons but why does Dr. Tamara Bywater, the therapist, intrigues Beth so much? Who is she, after all?
A psychological thriller set in London, The Seduction by Joanna Briscoe will wrap the reader in the arms of its plot. An intriguing premise tends to give the book a whiff of mystery to it. Unfortunately, the mystery isn't quite in the direction that the reader anticipates. There's a line between not being able to guess the suspense and being borderline disappointed from it and thats where this title sits for me. The plot tends to get you all worked up but alas! the reader is let down. The theme of the story has quite a lot of potential to it and upto half of the book, I was fairly certain it was going to be a good one. Sure, the prose and the writing style are quite absorbing but it simply didn't work for me. It was an upslope which drastically went down because of how the latter portion of the story was built. This was my first Joanna Briscoe title but I'm sad to say that it didn't leave a mark in any ways.
Beth and Sol live in London with their daughter Fern. Beth is an artist and she's been getting calls from an unknown number. Her daughter Fern keeps acting stranger around her and hides what's on her phone. Sol convinces Beth to go to therapy so as to deal with her demons but why does Dr. Tamara Bywater, the therapist, intrigues Beth so much? Who is she, after all?
A psychological thriller set in London, The Seduction by Joanna Briscoe will wrap the reader in the arms of its plot. An intriguing premise tends to give the book a whiff of mystery to it. Unfortunately, the mystery isn't quite in the direction that the reader anticipates. There's a line between not being able to guess the suspense and being borderline disappointed from it and thats where this title sits for me. The plot tends to get you all worked up but alas! the reader is let down. The theme of the story has quite a lot of potential to it and upto half of the book, I was fairly certain it was going to be a good one. Sure, the prose and the writing style are quite absorbing but it simply didn't work for me. It was an upslope which drastically went down because of how the latter portion of the story was built. This was my first Joanna Briscoe title but I'm sad to say that it didn't leave a mark in any ways.