As
the only survivor of a horrific car crash, Lila Amberson believes she
is on the road to recovery after she is released from the hospital.
Her memories of the accident are blurred though and a series of
unsettling incidents leave her fearing for her safety. Does she have
survivor's guilt or is something more sinister at play?
Jack
Foley is reeling from the shock of losing his sister in the crash and
when he first meets Lila, he lashes out, blaming her for Stephanie's
death. But when Lila gives him a locket that she believes belonged to
his sister, it presents more questions than answers.
What did I think?
Woah! My creep-o-meter went into total overdrive whilst reading Dying To Tell by Keri Beevis. There are one or two characters who literally made my skin crawl and it's not that they were particularly unpleasant, but rather that they seemed to have a touch of menace and deeply buried secrets about them. To get this feeling from an author's writing is one of the magical things I love about reading! Keri Beevis has written a number of books but this is the first one I have read; it definitely won't be my last!
Lila is a brilliant character with an intriguing story. We've all been on bad dates but Lila's must be the worst when she is involved in a fatal two car collision. Lila can't remember exactly what happened in the crash but she is drawn to the funeral of the driver of the other car, Stephanie. Sparks fly when she meets Stephanie's half-brother, Jack; sparks of anger at first but most definitely sparks of electricity as the pair are helplessly attracted to each other. I loved this part of the story as Lila is very vulnerable and opens her heart to Jack but suffers the same insecurities as we all do in a new relationship.
There's definitely more to the crash than meets the eye and I thought I had it all worked out but I was only a teeny tiny bit right. Bravo Keri Beevis! I gave Keri a virtual standing ovation when I was proved mostly-wrong and my eyes raced ahead of my brain in an attempt to devour every word on the page at record speed.
Reading Dying To Tell has definitely piqued my interest in other books written by Keri Beevis. Whereas Dying To Tell is set in Norwich, her previous books are set in America but judging by the 5 star reviews they are just as brilliant. Keri Beevis is a new author to add to my favourites list and Dying To Tell is a book I'll be raving about for quite some time.
I chose to read an ARC and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
My rating:
Buy it from Amazon
About the author:
Keri
Beevis wrote her first novel at age twenty, but it was a further
twenty years before she was published after entering the Rethink
Press New Novels Competition 2012. Her entry, Dead
Letter Day,
was a winner, earning her a publishing contract, and the book proved
to be a minor hit, leading to a sequel, Dead
Write. However
it was Keri's third novel, standalone mystery thriller The
Darkness Beneath that
gained her the most success, along with many new fans, both in the UK
and the USA.
Born
in the village of Old Catton, less than a mile from where Anna Sewell
was living when she wrote Black Beauty, Keri had a passion for
reading and writing from a young age, though her tastes veered more
to the macabre.
Today
she still lives in Norwich, along with her two naughty kitties, Ellie
and Lola, and a plentiful supply of red wine (her writing fuel),
where she writes a comedic lifestyle column for a local magazine. She
loves Hitchcock movies, exploring creepy places, and gets extremely
competitive in local pub quizzes. She is also a self-confessed klutz.
Keri’s
previous books have all been US based and she is looking forward to
the release of her first UK based novel, which is set in her
beautiful home county of Norfolk.
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