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A review by kazofbooks
The Favour by Nicci French
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
I read this book as an ARC from NetGalley and give this review freely and uninfluenced.
This book starts out slowly, and with each new development you can’t help wonder if the characters we’re wearing rose-tinted glasses. Jude, our narrator and main character, is someone who should know better than to make decisions without thinking first leads us on a journey of confusion, loss, heartbreak and suspense all for a Simple Favour that even she didn’t know the truth about.
Young love makes you stupid. That’s all that can explain Jude’s actions as she comes to an unexpected conclusion that her once childhood sweetheart was stolen from them for a twisted reason by the last person she expected
This book starts out slowly, and with each new development you can’t help wonder if the characters we’re wearing rose-tinted glasses. Jude, our narrator and main character, is someone who should know better than to make decisions without thinking first leads us on a journey of confusion, loss, heartbreak and suspense all for a Simple Favour that even she didn’t know the truth about.
Young love makes you stupid. That’s all that can explain Jude’s actions as she comes to an unexpected conclusion that her once childhood sweetheart was stolen from them for a twisted reason by the last person she expected
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Abandonment