Review for The Betrayals by Fiona Neill: ★★★★

The Betrayals by Fiona Neill

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


::..Reviewed for Red's Midnight Readers..::

I was very kindly provided with an ARC in exchange for an hones review. I have given it a 4.5 stars.

Fiona Neill is a new author to me but I was given the chance to read it, I couldn't resist. The cover, the blurb, everything about this book screamed
"WINNER" to me and I wasn't far wrong!

The Betrayals is poignant and thought provoking from the very beginning. I was hooked as we got to hear the same story from four very different characters. In the beginning I did think that reading multiple POV might have been a little too confusing but it wasn't. Each character was so different they just helped to build up a picture of these two dysfunctional family struggling to deal with several betrayals.

The author has delivered a well thought out, highly knowledgeable in-depth story with lots of different elements that were blended seamlessly together to give us a powerful eye opening story, with a few twists and turns that I didn't see coming.

I found it to be completely riveting, I couldn't put it down and that ending! Although the ending was unexpected, I think it was perfect for this book. We weren't given the closure that perhaps we would have liked and I think given the storyline that it was finished off that way to give the readers an insight into the character's feeling after more secrets and betrayals were revealed.

Overall I really enjoyed this book and can't wait to read more from this author.

Blurb
When Rosie Rankin's best friend has an affair with her husband, the consequences reverberate down through the lives of two families.

Relationships are torn apart. Friendships shattered. And childish innocence destroyed.

Her daughter Daisy's fragile hold on reality begins to unravel when a letter arrives that opens up all the old wounds. Rosie's teenage son Max blames himself for everything which happened that long hot summer. And her brittle ex-husband Nick has his own version of events.

As long-repressed memories bubble to the surface, the past has never seemed more present and the truth more murky.

Sometimes there are four sides to every story.

Who do you believe?

Told through the eyes of four members of the same family, The Betrayals takes an unflinching look at contemporary family life, explores the nature of memory and desire and asks whether some things can ever be forgiven.

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