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Between Us - Mhairi McFarlane

 



Description

‘Everything you want from a rom com and satisfyingly knotty with proper, recognisable characters. She just gets better and better’ JOJO MOYES

‘I LOVE her books PASSIONATELY and this is her best yet’ MARIAN KEYES

‘She’s so ridiculously talented . . . consider this recommendation my personal gift to you and your life’ EMILY HENRY

When Joe and Roisin join their group of friends for a weekend away, it’s a triple celebration – a birthday, an engagement and the launch of Joe’s new crime drama on TV.

But when Roisin sees secrets she shared with Joe play out on the TV screen, she knows that between us means nothing at all.

Roisin finds herself searching for clues to the truth – about her life, their history, and the man she thought she loved. And it’s then that Roisin finds the most unexpected plot twist of them all. Among those same old friends, there’s a surprising potential for new beginnings . . .


Review


This was nearly a DNF for me, and I have loved all of Mhairi's previous books. The first 20% of the book had too much scene setting for my liking.  I began to wonder what the overall point of the book was going to be. It was encapsulating the lifestyles of a group of 30 somethings, none of whom I really clicked with and that's all I could get from it.

Once Roisin left the weekend away and returned to her teaching role I began to get interested. It turns out that Roisin is really rather smart and sassy and I liked that a lot about her. Just a pity it took me a lot of the book before that totally shone through.  

Her Mum is also a part of the book and she was quite the comedian. I liked her character but maybe not all of her actions. It would give too much away to say anything about the other characters traits but I didn't really warm to any of them.

I've always said that Mhairi's books are not rom-com in the truest sense. I think this one is proably the closest to that description, and maybe why I didn't gel with it so much.

I'm giving this book 4 out of 5 stars. My thanks to netgalley for the ARC to review.

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