Catherine remains rather distant, but I suppose this is intentional, to keep the reader guessing about whether she's supposed to be sympathetic or not. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs.

But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M. I read a fair amount of crime fiction, and this book really stood out as clever, original, while quite tragic as well. Catherine Ravenscroft is a person who seems to have an almost charmed life, when we first meet her in this novel.But then there's the twist — she never actually had an affair; the man raped her at knifepoint and made her take sensual pictures for him, and she went along with him because her son was asleep in the next room and she didn't want him to get hurt.

The initial concept peaked my interest, but I found it slightly frustrated as was left waiting for clues. More original and sophisticated than your average psychological thriller, Renée Knight's DISCLAIMER is an accomplished and addictive tale. Fast paced, the revelations keep coming and even when I was sold on one theory, another presented itself.Catherine Ravenscroft has built a dream life, or close to it: the devoted husband, the house in London, the award-winning career as a documentary filmmaker.

It’s not that the ending was bad or I had some expectations for it, it’s just that some explanations at the end didn’t seem right to me. She withdrew into herself and lived apart from her husband Stephen who buried himself into his work. The Sinker – Catherine Ravenscroft soon realizes the book she finds by her beside is far more sinister than a light work of fiction.There is nothing wrong with the writing but to me if was all too ordinary, not the passionate execution that separates the exceptional from the mediocre. Stephen is shocked and appalled by what he reads of Nancy’s version of events, and thinks that justice can only be served if the one responsible for his son’s death is made to ‘pay’. Catherine loses the plot big time and Stephen becomes quite manic as the thriller races to its completion. I still read it though, because it was all these nerve wracking elements that made me love this book because of how much I hated it too.

And then there's the central conflict of the story, which is the secret hidden away in the pages of the mystery book and that is, supposedly, earth-shattering and utterly terrible. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Catherine finds that she is the main character in the book and that it reveals a secret that she thought only she could now know. And he narrates part of the book in the first person, to be that much closer to readers who will wish they could keep him at a safer distance. Renee shows such magnificent skill in plotting amazing characters and creating dark and atmospheric story. Hype still gets to me, I easily get caught up in the must-read-this-first excitement, but I no longer expect it to actually mean a truly great book.