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A review by kimblefairy1989
Day of the Accident by Nuala Ellwood
3.0
This novel centres around Maggie, a woman who has woken up in hospital after a car accident to find her daughter is dead and her husband missing. However, because of her loss of memory she has no idea why.
While this was certainly a page turner, there were a few things that let this novel down for me.
I found the plot twist a bit unbelievable - Julia turning out to be her long lost daughter... really? I just found it a bit of a cliche. I had also worked out that the letters weren't written by Elsbeth fairly early on.
I also find when you have a character with memory issues in a novel there is a fine line between building up suspense and just irritating the reader. I, unfortunately, was starting to get irritated by about 2/3's of the way through the story.
The main character, Maggie, was also something of an annoyance in that she was such a wet blanket through the vast majority of the story - something which then makes the reader question at the end of the book whether she would have actually gone to confront Barbara at all in reality. It just seemed very out of character.
Finally, and perhaps the biggest disappointment for me, is that this is just like all the other psychological thrillers out there - there just didn't seem to be anything unique about it.
That said, as I've already mentioned, it was a page turner and the plot line did keep me reading so for this reason it gets somewhere between 2.5 and 3 stars from me.
While this was certainly a page turner, there were a few things that let this novel down for me.
I found the plot twist a bit unbelievable - Julia turning out to be her long lost daughter... really? I just found it a bit of a cliche. I had also worked out that the letters weren't written by Elsbeth fairly early on.
I also find when you have a character with memory issues in a novel there is a fine line between building up suspense and just irritating the reader. I, unfortunately, was starting to get irritated by about 2/3's of the way through the story.
The main character, Maggie, was also something of an annoyance in that she was such a wet blanket through the vast majority of the story - something which then makes the reader question at the end of the book whether she would have actually gone to confront Barbara at all in reality. It just seemed very out of character.
Finally, and perhaps the biggest disappointment for me, is that this is just like all the other psychological thrillers out there - there just didn't seem to be anything unique about it.
That said, as I've already mentioned, it was a page turner and the plot line did keep me reading so for this reason it gets somewhere between 2.5 and 3 stars from me.