Review #601: The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

----Voltaire

B.A. Paris, an English bestselling author, pens a mind blowing psychological thriller in her new book, The Breakdown that revolves around a female recently married teacher returning back from a party, one rainy night, through a short cut road, when she suddenly stops her car to help another woman sitting motionlessly inside her car parked by the lane of the road, but she decides against helping that woman and drives by, and the next morning, she is shocked to find that particular woman has been found murdered, followed by her dementia and her immense guilt and fear about the murder of someone she could have saved.

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Review #122: The Darling Girls by Emma Burstall

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”

                                                       ----Dorothy Allison an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers

Emma Burstall, the English author's, latest book, The Darling Girls explores the lives of three women held together by a common relationship- a man shared by all three.

Synopsis:
Three women, one man, and a tangle of lies.

When the world famous music conductor Leo Bruck dies suddenly, the three women who loved him meet for the first time at his graveside.

Victoria, his partner of twenty years and mother of two of his children; Maddy, mother of Leo’s daughter Phoebe; and twenty-four year old Cat. Can these three very different women, whose lives become inextricably bound, break free from the masterful control Leo exerts - even from the grave - once and for all?

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