Tink's Book Reviews

Pete Riley answers the door one morning to a parent's worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, who breaks the devastating news that Pete's two-year-old, Theo, isn't Pete's real son - their babies got mixed up at birth.  The two families - Pete, his partner Maddie, and Miles and his wife Lucy - agree that, rather than swap the boys back, they'll try to find a more flexible way to share their children's lives. But a plan to sue the hospital triggers an investigation that unearths disturbing questions about just what happened the day the babies were switched. What could be your worst nightmare as a parent? Your child getting hurt? Them not having any friends? Or perhaps, someone telling you that your own child, who you have given birth to and loved, isn't actually yours? Theo had a traumatic entrance into the world, one that Pete and Maddie will never forget, but nothing trumps Miles Lambert showing up at their home with a private investigator and sa...

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...

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...

The Girl Before by  JP Delaney Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules.  After moving in, she discovers that a previous tenant, Emma, met a mysterious death there - and starts to wonder if her own story will be a re-run of the girl before.  Emma's past and Jane's present become inexorably entwined in this tense, page-turning portrayal of psychological obsession. Would you live in a house with pristine walls, works surfaces with state of the art technology and all for a good price?  Would you still stay if you couldn't have no books, music, DVD's, magazines or children for that matter?  Jane is looking for an a place to escape from her past, she wants nothing more than a minimalist life and she thinks she's come to the right place. Though  One Folgate Street has something siniste...

The Girlfriend by Michelle Frances A girl. A boy. His mother. And the lie she'll wish she'd never told. Laura Cavendish has told a lie, not a white one but an unthinkable one, a lie that no mother should ever let cross her mind. Though it has and there's no way that she can reel it back into the depths of her mind.  Daniel Cavendish has a lot going for him at the moment, a good steady job as a doctor at one of the top hospitals, a new already renovated flat and his beautiful new girlfriend, Cherry.  Cherry has had a rough life, or so she thinks. Growing up on the council estate and being an only child has its limits. She feels like she has been cursed and she doesn't know what she's done wrong, but it needs to change and fast.  Though Cherry isn't all what she's cracked up to be, in fact she's quite the opposite to what everyone may think of as the 'perfect girlfriend'. She's far, far from it. She'll do anything to have Danie...