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This story engaged my curiosity from the start. I had to find out how it ended and it had a satisfactory end. The characters are varied and interesting. The relationships are challenging and broken. The mystery is excellent. I didn't like the timeline. This book is very long because the story starts when Helen is very young and then then a few years later and then a few years later and so on. The final consistent timeline starts about 40% of the way into the book and then I couldn't put it down....
I picked this book up for review a little trepidatious at its length, but once I got going, I just couldn't stop. For me, this one was a real page-turner, and one that I actually thought about during the day when I wasn't reading it, and one that I'm still thinking about now. The author states on her website that she set out to write a saga-style series where we could get to know the characters thoroughly, including their complexities, contradictions and flaws, over time. Her style reminded me o...
I adored this!OK, I admit it, I am in love with Hector Forbes!I thought this was beautifully written, with characters that leapt off the page and some really lyrical passages. Can't wait for the next in the series!
The start of this book has the main character being called Hel’nie and being bullied and made fun of in primary school. The only person who comes to her aid is Hector, future Laird of Pitfourie. He protected her from her best friend Suzanne and the boy, Rob, who her friend followed, as they picked on her and made fun of her, whether that was by fear or need. He was her hero and she looked up to him from an early age, even thinking herself in love with him. Why he did what he did, you have to wai...
😲Fraught with suspense stem to stern; rural hijinks end in tragedy🤕August 10, 2019Format: Kindle Edition👍👍🌄I loved the Scottish setting of this story, and the constant state of anxiety and suspense, starting with MC Helen Clack's morbid focus on ridding herself of the school bully who has chosen her for his most egregious attacks. The small town setting made young Helen's situation all the more horrible. Hector, the local Laird's son and her occasional champion, becomes a central character in he...
It is hard to know what to say about this book. For one thing, it is very long. Now, I have read some long books in my day—a couple of eight- and nine-hundred-page books by Katherine LeVeque come to mind—so I'm no stranger to long fiction. But for a book that is supposed to be a mystery, which should have some tight suspense—and it's even listed as a thriller—the length felt ponderous; it was not a page-turner. I felt like the book was paced too slowly, and the story did sometimes meander off in...
Although I applaud any writer dedicated to their craft, I could not give more than a one-star rating to Jane Renshaw’s mystery The Sweetest Poison.On three different occasions I tried to ‘get into’ reading this book, and my fourth time was not the charm! Characters are hard to follow and are not adequately introduced before they appear in the text. Scottish words are frequently utilized, but with no explanation as to what these words mean. This oversight requires that you must stop reading and r...
This was an interesting read... I wasn't too sure how I was feeling about reading this at first. But I didn't give up on the book. I found this book well written and the plot was good so that wasn't the case at all. I struggle with some things in real life that while reading this book reflected on it to some degree as I struggle with people who lie. But other than that I did find it to be an interesting read and very glad that I kept with it!
The Sweetest PoisonIt took me a while to get into this story, I found it easy to put down and walk away and at one time a was ready to give up. I persevered and made it to the end, the story got better, probably about the time that Damian and Hector came back into the story. I think it was Helen's character that put me off, I didn't like her, I'm not a fan of people who tell lies.
This book was extremely hard to get into. I had to restart over again 3x before finally getting into it. It did have some good twists once you do get into it. I found that it had dragged on at points. I also found that it had many grammical errors which I can usually overlook, but found this had an overwhelming amount. I received this as a free book specifically for a review
