Never Have I Ever
It starts as a game at a book group one night. Never Have I Ever... done something I shouldn't.
But Amy Whey has done something she shouldn't. And Roux, the glamorous newcomer to Amy's suburban neighbourhood, knows exactly what that is.
Roux promises she will go away. She will take herself and her son, who is already growing dangerously close to Amy's teenage stepdaughter, and she will go. If Amy plays by her rules.
But Amy isn't prepared to lose everything she's built. She's going to fight back, and in this escalating game of cat and mouse, there can be only one winner.
This is the first book I have read from Joshilyn Jackson.
Running a Book Club can have it's moments, but never have I had someone turn up and start serving the drinks to people they don't know. Maybe that is yet to happen. I have had previous members who would turn up without having read the book, or read a few paragraphs, yes not even a few chapters. Quite difficult to remain polite, but they are no longer members so problem solved. So I did feel that the members of the book group didn't really get on or respect each other's views. A new member brings a new dimension, and didn't she just.
There was plenty of suspense in the book, but too many coincidences and coincidences don't happen.
Things that are supposed to be secret and sealed seem to be anything but. OK, it is fiction, but how many times, in the UK, do you here of people leaving laptops on public transport and these hold large amounts of confidential files and that the passwords, if they have them, are weak or pasted on a post it note.
Roux is no different from those who would sleep with noted politicians in the hope of getting access to state secrets, pillow talk.
The end of the book was just a little bit far fetched but overall it was a good read.