Anything for Her
by GJ Minett
You'd do anything for the one that got away . . . wouldn't you?
When Billy Orr returns home to spend time with his dying sister, he bumps into his ex-girlfriend Aimi, the love of his life. He might not have seen her in eleven years, but Billy's never forgotten her. He'd do anything for her then, and he'd do anything for her now.
When Aimi tells him that she wants to escape her abusive husband, Billy agrees to help her fake her own death. But is she still the Aimi that Billy remembers from all those years ago?
Once Aimi disappears, Billy has to face the possibility that perhaps she had different reasons for disappearing - reasons that might be more dangerous than she's led him to believe . . .
Sometimes trusting the one you love is the wrong thing to do.
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I love a suck you in, engrossing psychological thriller and Anything for Her sounded like something right up my alley. The premise is intriguing and I was excited to read it, but it didn't take long before I was wondering if I had opened the wrong book. Maybe I missed something, but I didn't find anything remotely thrilling about this book. I will say that the author does have a large vocabulary, but in this case, that translated into a lengthy, extremely wordy tale that was just too easy to set aside for something more interesting. In fact, I did set it aside numerous times, only coming back to it out of sheer determination to finish. That, and an almost obsessive need to figure out what everyone was raving about. Sadly, I didn't find it. There is a bit of mystery, but it wasn't all that hard to figure out and the only part I found remotely chilling was young Billy's reaction to the death of his parents. Other than that, I didn't much care for any of the characters or what happened to them. In the end, the only thing I took away with this one was several hours reading time that I can't get back.
Review copy provided by NetGalley and Bonnier Zaffre
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