Before We Met

I've had a bit of a week of it this week and so I needed to read something that would engage me and immerse me in the story. I hoped that Before We Met would do just that.

The story of Hannah, a newly-wed who goes to collect her entrepreneur husband from the airport only for him not to arrive. This is the blurb the book advertised and it sounded exciting and engaging and the first 20% of the book was very engaging and I flew through it. It built the story up nicely and built the tension. We are given lots of questions about Hannah's marriage to Mark. Why has he lied about where he is? Why a second mortgage on his expensive townhouse without telling her?

It was a great start to the book, Hannah is instantly likeable and it has a good pull to lead you into the story, I did feel it began to dip a little in the middle and redeemed itself at the end. It's not a standout book, it's similar to a many books out there at the moment and I'm not sure it will stand out to me in 6 months time.

There was also a little bit of an abrupt ending whereby the tiny little epilogue didn't seem to adequately cover everything I'd have liked, it became a little clinical and lacked emotional tying up of loose ends.the conclusion to the mystery was good and very well written but the follow through seemed rushed.

All in all a good book, it did exactly what I wanted it to this week and engaged me fully and took my mind off a worrying time. It was easy to read and a good story written well.