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A review by melaniesreads
All The Wrong Places by Joy Fielding
5.0
This is such a clever crossover of genres switching from psychological thriller to women’s fiction and then to domestic noir. It starts dark and full on, in the middle of a very warped date, and then leaves you hanging with lots of questions. Suddenly switching to the characters and their lives so you get to know and care for his potential victims.
Paige recently single and her mum Joan, her cousin Heather (who is the reason Paige is now single) and Chloe, Paige’s best friend are the four women that cross Mr Right Now’s radar. All fantastically written characters with realistic issues that see them using an online dating site all for differing reasons. But it’s the men that struck me. The author has cleverly made the bad men charismatic, charming and very dangerous. Mr Right Now is in a completely new league of his own in sociopathic terms. If I’m honest I loved it and rubbed my hands with glee every time he appeared. I like my bad guys to be very bad and highly intelligent and the author has done this with aplomb.
This book really sucked me in as I started to care about most of the women. The author has covered relationships, grief, domestic violence and sex from multiple age range viewpoints. No easy feat but it’s been skilfully tackled. Yes older women still enjoy sex but don’t tell your adult children.
This is a stand-alone book that would make a great Netflix series but I am putting it out there to the author that I would please like a Mr Right Now Book Two. The steak will be on me.
Paige recently single and her mum Joan, her cousin Heather (who is the reason Paige is now single) and Chloe, Paige’s best friend are the four women that cross Mr Right Now’s radar. All fantastically written characters with realistic issues that see them using an online dating site all for differing reasons. But it’s the men that struck me. The author has cleverly made the bad men charismatic, charming and very dangerous. Mr Right Now is in a completely new league of his own in sociopathic terms. If I’m honest I loved it and rubbed my hands with glee every time he appeared. I like my bad guys to be very bad and highly intelligent and the author has done this with aplomb.
This book really sucked me in as I started to care about most of the women. The author has covered relationships, grief, domestic violence and sex from multiple age range viewpoints. No easy feat but it’s been skilfully tackled. Yes older women still enjoy sex but don’t tell your adult children.
This is a stand-alone book that would make a great Netflix series but I am putting it out there to the author that I would please like a Mr Right Now Book Two. The steak will be on me.