ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – Message Deleted by Okay.L. Slater – Brief E book and Scribes

Message Deleted by Okay.L. Slater was printed by Michael Joseph on 18th July in hardcover, eBook and audiobook. My because of the publishers for the fabulous slipcase proof copy.

I felt within the temper for a thriller and thought Message Deleted had a terrific premise. Saffy receives three messages in fast succession from her greatest good friend, Leona.

Can’t converse.

Don’t textual content or name.

Pls simply come.

As rapidly as they’re obtained they’re deleted however Saffy is aware of what she noticed. She hotfoots it spherical to Leona’s home however one thing about her and her husband, Ash, simply doesn’t appear proper and much more so when they’re later reported lacking together with Leona’s daughter, Rosie.

This all occurs in the beginning of the e book and there are many ups and downs to come back for Saffy and her sister, Poppy. For me, it may have carried out with going fairly a bit quicker within the first third to a half of the e book to attempt to hold the tempo up. I didn’t at all times really feel like I wished to choose it up however I additionally knew I wished to maintain studying. The writing is excellent however the pacing wasn’t fairly sufficient to seize me by the collar and thrust me into the motion within the method I hoped for.

There have been a couple of plot twists that I didn’t count on and I used to be saved guessing as to what had occurred to Leona and her household. I feel this e book is a mix of a psychological thriller and a home noir. There’s fairly a piece of the narrative primarily based round one thing that occurred to Poppy and the way Saffy handled it, which undoubtedly falls into the home sphere.

While I feel it will have benefited from being a bit shorter and pacier, I did take pleasure in this e book and it saved me and intrigued sufficient to need to learn to the top.

Okay. L. Slater is the primary bestselling writer of twenty psychological crime thrillers. She has bought over 2.5 million copies of her books worldwide. She has additionally written 4 Carnegie-nominated Younger Grownup novels as Kim Slater. Kim has an MA in Artistic Writing and lives along with her husband in a small Nottinghamshire village.