Thank you to Head of Zeus, Aries Fiction for my place on the blog tour.
My Thoughts
I’ve read this author before and so jumped at the chance to read this. The cover with the tempting looking water, and relaxed hand lured me into the pages and once I started I couldn’t put it down.
This is darker, and more devious than I was expecting. I loved the characters and the glamorous lives they led, the lavish homes, parties, drinks nights, and social gatherings. Not to mention the holiday home in Ibiza. They seemed to have it all, a perfect life you might think. But, when you scratch under the surface the cracks begin to show and things aren’t quite as perfect as they appear at first glance. Yet for some of them it takes longer to show their true colours than others.
Everyone needs some time out from their normal lives, and Charlotte and her friends had a routine of an annual holiday together to Ibiza; a place for the girl friends to reconnect, to relax, and unwind. But their holiday soon turns into something a little bit different… it wasn’t just yoga in the mornings on the sun deck, although that and the walks along the coastline had me wanting to make a trip myself. Maybe not with these friends though, I found the combination of them all together a bit intense!
Girl Friends throws everything into the mix; it’s naughty, it’s deadly, and it’s very addictive. What the author has created is a unique thriller which pulls off all of it’s many traits, from steamy illicit affairs to violent encounters, and family feuds. I loved all of the action and it’s the fact it’s a bit naughty that kept me hooked!
I so much enjoyed this, it’s everything you want in a thriller, and more!
The Blurb
THEY CAN BUILD YOU UP
Charlotte has it all: the successful career, the loving family. But, secretly, she is dangerously bored of her life. So when she meets free-spirited Bianka, it feels like fate – Bianka is exactly the person that Charlotte needs.
OR TEAR YOU DOWN
On a girls’ trip to Ibiza, home is forgotten as Charlotte dives head first into a life that is looser, wilder. She feels free, but there are devastating consequences: someone doesn’t return home.
As the aftermath of the holiday rips through her life back in London, Charlotte soon regrets ever breaking out of her carefully constructed routine – and begins to wonder whether meeting Bianka was really an accident at all…
The Author
Alex Dahl is a half-American, half-Norwegian author. Born in Oslo, she studied Russian and German linguistics with international studies, then went on to complete an MA in creative writing at Bath Spa University and an MSc in business management at Bath University. A committed Francophile, Alex loves to travel, and has so far lived in Moscow, Paris, Stuttgart, Sandefjord, Switzerland, Bath and London. She is the author of five other thrillers: After She’d Gone, Cabin Fever, Playdate, The Heart Keeper, and The Boy at the Door, which was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger.
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