The Book Club: An absolutely gripping psychological thriller with a killer twist

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In fact Lucy’s affair with her married ex-boss is mentioned throughout the story but has little connection, really with the actual revenge.

The Book Club (Audio Download): C. J. Cooper, Mary Woodvine The Book Club (Audio Download): C. J. Cooper, Mary Woodvine

Alice slides her way into Lucy’s friendship group and soon suggests a weekly book club for the group. There were some times at the beginning of the story where I found it difficult to figure out who’s storyline we were reading but after a while I got to know the characters and the way the chapters were written around them. stars…We know whodunnit from the beginning, the story was a slow burner and the characters were not super likable. The characters and their secrets were great, I loved how they seeped out gradually over the course of the book and that the books chosen for the book club would reflect each of them. A deliciously addictive psychological thriller about a book club that unravels dark and scandalous secrets between one circle of neighbours .Not quite what I would have expected from a psychological thriller (with more emphasis on the psychological - there was nothing particularly thrilling about this at all). Each of the character’s secrets were interesting, and it was easy to see that they didn’t trust their friends completely as they mostly dealt with the secrets they were keeping by themselves. There is quite a bit of padding with the stories of the other members of the book club which has little bearing on the final outcome. This book follows Alice, who has moved to the Cotswolds to get revenge on her new next door neighbour, Lucy.

The Book Club by C. J. Cooper | Hachette UK The Book Club by C. J. Cooper | Hachette UK

The Book Club is a sharp, page-turning psychological thriller with a chilling villain at its heart and C.

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Now this is where it gets really interesting when the book choices appear to be relevant to the club member’s secrets. Lucy moved in the village in the Cotswolds some months earlier and is starting to feel she has made friends, with Tom, Maggie, and Rebecca. Though she seems pleasant enough there is something about the newcomer Alice that just seems a bit off.

The Book Club by C.J. Cooper – Review. The tangled webs

I found the book quite confusing at times, one chapter was from Lucy’s point of view and then the next was always focused on other character or multiple character’s but always in the third person. After a few months she appears to have settled in nicely and they regularly meet up, although sometimes not including her. She hung up her bowler hat when she discovered that she much preferred writing about psychotic killers to Ministerial speeches.Its one of the many books in the domestic noir genre, but I think there are better examples than this. It soon becomes clear to Lucy that Alice has sinister intentions as she begins to manipulate the group. I loved this book - tightly plotted, edge-of-seat gripping and likely to make you want to avoid book groups for the foreseeable future! Tucked away in the Cotswolds countryside, Willowcombe is a quintessentially English village full of leafy streets and chocolate-box cottages. I found this book hard to read there are alot of characters with not much depth so even half way through the book I was still slightly confused as to who was who.

The Book Club: An absolutely gripping psychological thriller

it was good but average, the was the sense of mystery and suspense the whole way through the book which i loved. I just didn't feel fully invested in the story so when the final little twist came I didn't get that "oh my gosh" moment. There is mistrust for all the characters and their secrets as soon as you start the book but you can't help but read it as you need to find out more! However some negatives did have me rating this lower as two elements I didn't find realistic, one a friendship based one, the other right near the end but don't want to spoil it for anyone. As a group of neighbours in the village start meeting regularly to discuss classic literature and drink large glasses of wine, secrets begin to unravel.It took me 10 days to read because the story dragged so much and I was begging for it to end, and then once it did, I was so disappointed in the ending! Alice finds out secrets about everyone in the friendship group and, after suggesting a book club for them all, manages to suggest or manipulate other people into suggesting books similar to each of the secrets they have hidden from each other.