SHE WANTS HIM BACK. SHE WANTS YOU GONE.
Luke is the one. After everything she's been through, Georgia knows she deserves someone like him, to make her feel loved. Safe.
The only problem is his ex-girlfriend. Luke says Cadence is having trouble accepting their break-up, but Georgia thinks there's more to the story. She has the feeling someone is watching her.
So when everything starts to go wrong at work, at home, in her old friendships and her happy new relationship with Luke, Georgia starts to feel afraid.
It's becoming clear Cadence wants what she has. But how far will she go to get it?
What did I think?
I've been meaning to read a Nicola Moriarty book for a while and The EX-Girlfriend sounded so good that it jumped right to the top of my Nicola Moriarty queue. It's fast paced and a really easy read that is impossible to put down so I found that I raced through it in two sittings; it would have been one sitting but, rather disappointingly, I had to put it down so I could go to sleep when I was 75% through.
The prologue is entitled 'The Elevator' and it sent shivers down my spine; there's nothing worse than being in an enclosed box with someone you don't want to be in close contact with. It could be quite innocuous but there is just something so menacing about it and that's before we even get to know the characters of Georgia and Cadence.
I really liked the character of Georgia; the youngest and only girl in a family of boys. Although she may have been taunted and teased by her brothers when they were all growing up, I had no doubt that they would look out for her and never more so than when she brings her new man, Luke, to her brother's wedding. The way she met Luke was rather fortuitous as she had been stood up on a Tinder date. Georgia was just about to leave the bar when she got hassled by some beefy blokes and Luke rode in on his white horse to come to her rescue. Fate does seem to work in mysterious ways and Georgia happily exchanged numbers with Luke. She later finds out that Luke comes with a lot of baggage, namely his ex-girlfriend Cadence.
By the end of Chapter Two my bullshit-o-meter was going absolutely haywire. Maybe I'm just old and sceptical but, apart from his ex-girlfriend issue, Luke seemed too good to be true. Meanwhile, Cadence sets out on a campaign to get Luke back by stalking Georgia. This really was very frightening and it just shows how easy it actually is to stalk people these days thanks to Social Media. I always cringe when people 'check in' to places, sharing every minutiae of their life and not realising that they're leaving themselves wide open and vulnerable. Georgia didn't seem to be able to go anywhere without Cadence's eyes on her and I really started to worry about how far this would go when it seemed like Cadence not only wanted Luke back, but she wanted to ruin Georgia's life in the process.
Gripping, chilling and scarily believable, The EX-Girlfriend is a firecracker of a read; I couldn't put it down. Even if I had worked some of it out (and I'm not saying whether I had or not), it didn't spoil my enjoyment one bit and I was immensely satisfied at the girl-power ending. Nicola Moriarty has definitely earned the full five stars for this The EX-Girlfriend and I'm even more excited to read her other books now.
I chose to read an ARC and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
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About the author:
Nicola Moriarty is a novelist, copywriter and mum to two small (but remarkably strong-willed) daughters. In between various career changes, becoming a mum and studying at university, she began to write. Now, she can't seem to stop. The Fifth Letter was her UK debut novel, followed by Those Other Women. Follow the tour:
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