March book club - The Girlfriend

Thanks for my copy, just arrived. Good timing GN as I am on the last few pages of my present novel

Mine has just arrived. I'm delighted, as I love a psychological thriller and can't wait to get stuck into this one. Many thanks, GN!

Thank you for my copy, which arrived this morning. It isn't a book I would have picked up from the shelf, so it will be interesting to see if I enjoy it.

Thank you my copy arrived today.

Thank you, my copy just popped through the letterbox, it looks very interesting!

Thanks arrived while I was out yesterday, lovely surprise to come home to!

Thank you for my copy which arrived today.

My copy arrived today, just a couple of chapters to read of present book so will be starting this one soon, can't wait.
Thank you.

Started it. Found it a bit hard at first, but then the sudden twists and turns start. It never seems to go the way you expect!

Finished it in 2 days. It is very easy to read. The sheer opulence of the lifestyle irritated at first but of course it is very pertinent to the story. Characters hard to feel any sympathy for but enjoyed it very much. Will say more when more people get to the end so no spoilers.

I agree about the lifestyle annsixty I think that and the unsympathetic characters were the things that made it hard reading for me at first.

Thank you for my copy, looking forward to starting it.

Finished it. Must say I disliked both the main female characters and didn't particularly care what happened to either of them, both could have died as far as I was concerned. So many holes in the plot it's unbelievable. Will post about those later.

Thanks, trisher - I quite liked the sound of it and was wondering about buying it. I won't bother now!

It's a light read if you want to read about the super rich, if you are prepared to go with some of the plot twists and not question what you are told it's OK. But I like my crime novels to be credible.

Yes, me too!

How does anyone else feel about the lie Laura tells? Would Cherry really believe her? Social media is so important in most 20-30 year olds lives I found it hard to believe that Cherry wouldn't have checked it out.

I am sorry to say I didn't really enjoy this book. It is very dark, and I found myself racing to get to the end so that I could read something lighter in tone. It did rather remind me of a television serial ( it would work well as one). The most sympathetic character, I felt, was Cherry's mum, Wendy. I would like to ask the author whether any real events prompted her to write this story.

I enjoyed this book,read it in two days. I felt sorry for Daniel being torn between two people who loved him.At the beginning I had sympathy for Laura which I then lost.

I found this an easy book to finish. I became interested in the characters, speculated to myself on their histories and motivations as the dynamic evolved. I agree it would make a tv series. I would be interested to know more about the inspiration for this book.

I liked this book.there were quite a few different undercurrents running through it, and each character had their own flaw.There was a lot of co dependency happening and this obviously happens in real life too.
I like that Cherry and Laura both were not bad through and through, just in parts and I wondered if Michelle wanted us to feel sympathetic in any way to them or to despise them for their acts ? Neither started off totally bad, but both ended up that way, and both lost something along the way.Daniel seemed to lose out most of all, yes he had his money and his background to fall back on, but I couldn't help but feel sorry for him.I liked Michelle's description, and I too could feel the sunshine at the house in France, I just bet the author went there..purely for research purposes of course !!

I enjoyed reading the book, thank you Michelle.

I enjoyed this book and read it in a couple of days, it is the kind of story you want to keep reading to see how far the lead character is prepared to go to get her own way.
I felt it was unrealistic in that Cherry did not do any research after having being told that Daniel was dead. When I have been told that I have missed someone's announcement I usually go to newspaper archives and read the obituaries. It is also unlikely that Daniel was not on facebook or twitter seeing as he was a twenty something student.
Laura was rather too clingy as a mother and I understand that she had already lost a child but goodness me she did like to have Daniel to herself.
I loved the descriptions of the holiday in France and reminded me very much of our family holidays round the pool and eating at local restaurants.
As a first novel I found it very readable and look forward to future books, it was very obvious that the author had worked in TV.