Description: The story follows best friends Alice and Beth. Alice is a successful interior designer who lost her first husband, Tom, unexpectedly, but has remarried the perfect man. Nathan. Beth is a single mom who struggles to make ends meet each month. Alice begins to notice strange behavior from Nathan and begins to suspect her marriage is not as perfect as she thought.
What I Liked: Sandie Jones’ writing is lovely. I flew through the book and it was so easy to read. I read 50 pages the night I started the book before I even realized it! The book is told in three parts: Part one and three are the present time and part two is a flashback. I did like the part two flashback and I feel it helped tie everything together and confirmed my predicted ending.
What I Didn’t Like: If you read a lot of thrillers, you will feel spoon-fed during this book. I had everything worked out before part two but kept reading because I thought maybe there was an epic twist and that the ending I had guessed was a red herring. Nope. It really was that easy to work out the “twist” ending.
Final Thoughts: If you need a quick beach read, I do recommend The First Mistake, but I don’t think it brings anything new to the thriller genre. I initially rated this four stars but bumped my rating down to three stars after sleeping on it. If I was doing half star ratings, I might would bump it up to 3.5 simply because I did enjoy reading the book even though I had the ending worked out.
What I Liked: Sandie Jones’ writing is lovely. I flew through the book and it was so easy to read. I read 50 pages the night I started the book before I even realized it! The book is told in three parts: Part one and three are the present time and part two is a flashback. I did like the part two flashback and I feel it helped tie everything together and confirmed my predicted ending.
What I Didn’t Like: If you read a lot of thrillers, you will feel spoon-fed during this book. I had everything worked out before part two but kept reading because I thought maybe there was an epic twist and that the ending I had guessed was a red herring. Nope. It really was that easy to work out the “twist” ending.
Final Thoughts: If you need a quick beach read, I do recommend The First Mistake, but I don’t think it brings anything new to the thriller genre. I initially rated this four stars but bumped my rating down to three stars after sleeping on it. If I was doing half star ratings, I might would bump it up to 3.5 simply because I did enjoy reading the book even though I had the ending worked out.