Tink's Book Reviews

The perfect life. The perfect love. The perfect lie.  Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He's a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valley's most innovative start-ups.  He tells Abbie that she is a gifted artist, an avid surfer, a loving mother to their young son, and the perfect wife. If you loved your wife, you'd do anything to bring her back...wouldn't you?  When Abbie awakes in hospital, she has no memory of how she got there. In fact, it isn't even a hospital at all, it's her husbands company, Scott Robotics - and she's plugged in.  Soon her beloved husband announces that she's actually a robotic version of her old self. Downloaded memories, charging systems and silicone skin.  But something isn't right. Scott says that her old self, the real Abbie, went missing  five years ago. But why, al...

Love is in the air in St Carys, but you'd never know it - the people of this seaside town are very good at keeping secrets... The man Clemency loves belongs to someone else. She has to hide her true feelings - but when she ropes in an unsuspecting friend to help, wires start to get crossed. For the first time in Ronan's life his charm has failed him in winning over the woman he wants. Loving her from afar appears to be his only option. Belle seems to have the perfect boyfriend, but something isn't quite right. And now a long-buried secret is slowly rising to the surface. The truth has a funny way of revealing itself, and when it does St Carys will be a very different place indeed... What if you'd just met the love of your life, on a plane, covered in red wine?  Or just met your one true love, after a mistaken one night stand?  And what if, your partner, your wonderful gorgeous  partner, just doesn't do it for you?  Welcome to St Cary's, where love is i...

Claire Wright likes to play other people.  A British drama student, in New York without a green card, Claire takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of a divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pick-up in hotel bars to entrap straying husbands.  When one of her targets becomes the subject of a murder investigation, the police ask Claire to use her acting skills to help lure their suspect into a confession.  Is Patrick Folger really a killer...Or is he the only decent husband she's ever met? And is their more to this set-up than she's being told? And that's when Claire realises she's playing the deadliest game of her life... Claire just wants to act, though when she moves to New York, the undercover work for a divorce firm, it's the closest she can get to a paid acting gig and her dreams don't work out exactly the way she planned.   She certainly didn't think she would fall for Patrick Folger; tall, handsome, charismatic an...