When I try a new author and am not impressed with their debut novels, I tend to ignore later releases because I don't want to waste time reading a book that isn't going to be any good. I know I should give them another try, but more often than not, I don't. However, when I was trying to choose a book to make up my '3 for 2' offer in Waterstones, my fiance picked this book up and said it looked like my sort of thing. I recognised the author straight away and almost dismissed it, but the title and blurb on the back grabbed my attention and I decided to give Lucy Dawson's work another go. Photographer Alice is plodding along in her career and with live-in ...  Read the complete review

When Alice goes off to LA for a photo-shoot the last thing she expects is to come home with a new best friend. Her life has gotten fairly mundane of late and so when Alice meets Gretchen it's like a breath of fresh air has opened her eyes to fantastic new possibilities. Gretchen is like no one Alice has ever met before; she's beautiful and impulsive and Alice's life is suddenly sparkling again. But Gretchen isn't all she seems and there are ticking time bombs hidden below the surface just waiting to explode. When one of Gretchen's bombs do explode, it teaches Alice a lesson she will never forget about just how explosive female friendships can be. A couple of ...  Read the complete review

** Plot Summary.... Alice's life goes from boring to sparkling the minute she meets Gretchen, a gorgeous, funny and witty children's TV presenter. Within weeks of meeting Gretchen, Alice is convinced that she has out-grown her two year old relationship with her adoring boyfriend Nick, forgets all her old friends and cannot stop thinking about how wonderful Gretchen is. Things then become much more interesting for Alice when Gretchen introduces her to her handsome brother Bailey whom Alice Is convinced is what she needs to get her exciting life back. Before long however, Alice realises she may have made the biggest mistake of her life meeting ...  Read the complete review

If I'm honest this is a book that I'd never actually heard of before, although I had heard of the author; it was bought because on my home page on amazon as I'd bought something else apparently related to this book it was recommended to me. After clicking on it I had a quick read of the synopsis and was happy to see that you could buy it used with postage very cheaply. The book is supposed to be a twist on your average fluffy chick lit yet still fit within the genre, because of the addition of the thriller side to it with some psychotic behaviour thrown in, making you realise the true extent of certain friendships! Alice is stuck in the hum drum of suburbia ...  Read the complete review