Plot:
Victoria Barnett has it all.
A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems.
Then she’s in a terrible accident… and everything falls apart.
Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can’t feed or dress herself. She can’t even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with twenty-four-hour care.
Sylvia Robinson is hired by Victoria’s husband to help care for her. But it turns out Victoria isn’t as impaired as Sylvia was led to believe. There’s a story Victoria desperately wants to tell… if only she could get out the words.
Then Sylvia discovers Victoria’s diary hidden away in a drawer.
And what’s inside is shocking.
Review:
Anyone else get Verity by Colleen Hoover vibes?
It was so twisted. Hard to put down.
There is so much manipulation going on that it makes you suspicious of what everyone is saying about the wife upstairs.
This psychological thriller centres around Victoria and Sylvia.
So Victoria seemed to have had everything as Sylvia reads her diary entries. She worked as a nurse, met the most perfect seeming man and quits, moves in with the guy and they get married and are about to try for kids. All perfect right?
Until she had a fall and is left injured where she has to sit all day and can barely speak. Her quality of life is very low.
Sylvia, was waiting in a bar for an interview. Where a situation happened with an older lady when she was trying to save her life when she was choking. Enters Victoria’s husband who was watching this all happen.
So he offers her a job of being Victoria’s friend/feeder/carer. When she gets there. Victoria managed to point and lead her to read her diary.
So throughout the novel we see her life before the accident is so perfect, but there is little read flags in the husband’s behaviour that should make any woman run. He began to get so controlling and manipulative and telling her what to wear and basically he isolated her from her old life and made her paranoid when he was flirting with every woman!
Some of Sylvia’s choices really did not make sense as she contradicted herself as she was getting to know Victoria through V’s diary entries.
There was enough of a difference just about to differentiate this novel from the one I mentioned. There was that twist in the end which made you wonder, who was telling the truth but luckily within this novel it did not end in a ‘what if’ scenario.
I really enjoyed this novel. Full of twists and interesting plot line to keep you going throughout.
4/5 Stars
C’s La Vie 