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Before We Met A Novel Lucie Whitehouse 9781620402757 Books

I really liked this book! I had on my list to read, but was afraid to spend $10 cause when I heard about it, it was on a list with other books comparing it to Gone Girl. I had purchased about 2 of the books on that list, and the weren't like Gone Girl, so I just kept an eye on it and got it for a great bargain.

Cheapness aside. This was worth $10, and wouldn't have regretted paying that much! Forget the Gone Girl comparisons. I was hard on books (in my reviews) because you compare it to GG, and when it didn't deliver, or it was a mystery, and not really a psychological hot mess - I didn't like that at all. Don't say you're like GG if you're a mystery.

Now, "Before We Met". DAMN. It plays some head games. It almost seems like two books. The first half of the book takes you down a story, and you wonder what's true, what's not, but that's solved at the 53%, then you start another path, and you wonder, how will this all end??

I am anxious to read something else from this author, and wouldn't think twice now about spending full price.


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Before We Met A Novel Lucie Whitehouse 9781620402757 Books Reviews

I’m assuming just about everyone read Gone Girl last year. I did - though I’m one of the three people in the world that didn’t love it. It never grabbed me - I could not get interested in either character, and didn't care what happened to them. Before We Met is built on the same “who do you trust? who are you really?” premise. But instead of the back and forth of two narrators in Gone Girl (which I found unconvincing, especially the male voice), we experience this story through Hannah, a wife we largely trust and like.

The book begins on an evening when Hannah’s husband, Mark, fails to materialize in the crowd exiting Customs at Heathrow. She's worried, but perhaps there’s an explanation. After a few hours of watching planeloads of people greeting their loved ones, she goes home to wait. A few hours later her imagination is in high gear and she's making the kind of phone calls no woman wants to admit to. Her nerves are not calmed when Mark calls the next day with an explanation to rival a Julia Child recipe. The reader knows something is amiss, but Hannah tries to keep hope alive. No such luck.

Whitehouse is a good writer who is not shy about giving us a straight-up, chick lit experience. Hannah and Mark meet cute, have an adorable wedding, and move into Mark’s flat outside of London. (To be honest, after reading the lavish descriptions of that flat, I’d put up with a lot of crazy explanations too.) They wear good clothes, have successful careers and genial conversations in British accents, and go out to dinner with attractive friends. What’s not to like? Well . . . actually, quite a lot. Before you know it, you’re in a plot that rockets from one crazy scenario to another and pretty much doesn't let up until the last page. The reader is never out of Hannah’s head, which is the best choice Whitehouse could have made because it’s one many women will recognize. Who amongst us has not let her imagination run wild on the slenderest of evidence? And, if a male reader can get past the title, he'll discover that some chick lit is worth the read.

The Attentive Reader will note the book has almost all the earmarks of a classic Gothic novel raging storms that bookend the story, evil men, a damsel in distress who doesn't know who to trust, but does know she has to get out of that gorgeous castle to survive. Alas, it is missing one crucial element of a true Gothic it has neither the adorable pooch who comforts the damsel with its soft eyes and warm fur, nor the slavering canine with blood dripping off its dewlaps that really ramps up the terror. But so what if it's not Castle of Otranto? It's a good read on a wintry night.
This was the first Lucie Whitehouse book I've read. Once I started reading I couldn't put it down - a mark of a good story! I particularly enjoyed the build up of tension and the knowledge that lies are being told to the protagonist but not knowing who's lying and why. The denouement was enjoyable and offered surprises, which I won't mention, otherwise they would be spoilers for a new reader.

Why four stars instead of five? Because the author describes only too well the bleak wintry days of England and I don't feel this added to the story, but was rather a distraction. Don't get me wrong - there are some great descriptive turns of phrases, but as I said, I don't think they were necessary for the story line. If I want description I'll read Thomas Hardy or George Eliot!

Otherwise a most enjoyable read. Thank you.

I have begun another more recent book by this author and am finding the same overly descriptive depressing weather conditions quite offputting and have not been gripped by the story yet.
I really liked this book! I had on my list to read, but was afraid to spend $10 cause when I heard about it, it was on a list with other books comparing it to Gone Girl. I had purchased about 2 of the books on that list, and the weren't like Gone Girl, so I just kept an eye on it and got it for a great bargain.

Cheapness aside. This was worth $10, and wouldn't have regretted paying that much! Forget the Gone Girl comparisons. I was hard on books (in my reviews) because you compare it to GG, and when it didn't deliver, or it was a mystery, and not really a psychological hot mess - I didn't like that at all. Don't say you're like GG if you're a mystery.

Now, "Before We Met". DAMN. It plays some head games. It almost seems like two books. The first half of the book takes you down a story, and you wonder what's true, what's not, but that's solved at the 53%, then you start another path, and you wonder, how will this all end??

I am anxious to read something else from this author, and wouldn't think twice now about spending full price.