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#AwesomeAugust bk3
An English summer so hot chocolate+ toasted teacake is apt as I finished this one. If you can suspend belief in part 1 it turned into an ok thriller as we see 3 sides of a story in which a yng woman maggie lonely in London is drawn by a man she meets in a park to apparently work for MI5 but is Harvey all he seems which we find out thru Maggie, Harvey, and maggies's sister meredith.
Not quite Slough house but good holiday read.

Without giving too much away, go into this with no preconceived ideas about the book, otherwise you may be disappointed.

I thought it was well done, although I had an idea what was happening fairly early on. Dark in tone, it‘s not an easy read. 4🌟

I love Herron‘s Jackson Lamb and his Slough House misfits, but feeling very iffy about this stand alone. Solitary and passive Maggie is recruited as a MI5 spy... or so she thinks. Dazzled by attention, she is oblivious to extreme manipulation. Bad guy who is not quite as slick as he thinks is truly creepy. Love the style but kept thinking Maggie is not quite believable plus too much deus ex machina, so the so-so.

Mick Herron‘s stand-alone psychological thriller is an interesting, if ultimately unsatisfying affair that makes excellent use of misdirection and manipulation and features a genuinely creepy antagonist but which suffers from the fact that Maggie is so passive and accepting that it becomes increasingly difficult to sympathise with her plight, coupled with an ending that I found disappointingly one-ended.

Another impulse pick up from work. This is why I shouldn't get bookish recommendation emails. Who knows when I'll get to this one lol. #winterreads #thriller #mickherron #tbr #impulse

New sign on my back porch... 😬

This is a fast-paced read told in three voices- with each one illuminating more of the plot. London, despite its size sets the backdrop for this story of isolation and deception- it‘s sad, thrilling and for me was a two-sitting read!