Book #55 |
Book: The Soulmate | Author: Sally Hepworth | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Audiobook |
Pages: 336 | Duration: 07/16/25 – 07/17/25 (2 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: fiction, mystery thriller, mental health | ||
| 📕10-word summary: An unlikely suicide unravels — was it an accident or murder? 🖌6-word review: Compelling story despite unacknowledged magical realism. |
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| 💭Favorite quote: “For all of his foibles,” Mum always says, “at least your father does what he’s told.” | |||
| 🎓A new-to-me word: limerence | |||
| Description:* Picture a lovely cottage on a cliff, with sloping lawns, walking paths, and beautiful flowers. It’s Gabe and Pippa Gerard’s dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Over the past several months, Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until one day, he doesn’t. When Pippa discovers Gabe knew the victim, the questions spiral… Did the victim jump? Was she pushed? And would Gabe, the love of Pippa’s life, her soulmate… lie? As the perfect façade of their marriage begins to crack, the deepest and darkest secrets begin to unravel. Because sometimes, the most convincing lies are the ones we tell ourselves.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: This is my third Sally Hepworth book, having read The Good Sister in 2021 as a book club book and Uncharted Waters in 2022 as a free Amazon First Reads download. Like this book, I read both of those in 2 days and gave them 5 stars. This story moved at a good clip, which kept me reading. Written from a dual, alternating perspective, one being the living female protagonist and the other being the deceased female protagonist. I’m ambivalent about the dead woman “speaking,” because I don’t like magical realism (which wasn’t a listed genre of this book), but she actually provided a lot of information as to the motives of other characters. That aside, I liked the book enough to give it 5 stars, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it, and I may end up putting it forth as a Mostly Social Book Club book in the future. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.