Book Review: His and Hers by Alice Feeney

I need to start by saying that this is going to be filled with spoilers so if you have a desire to read this book, don’t continue reading this review.

I’m not sure if thriller and suspense is really my genre anymore since becoming a mom. This book was really hard for me to read on many levels. I still really enjoyed the twisting aspect of it, and the fact that I was on the edge of my seat. But this book was filled with really graphic mental images of nudity and death and rape of teenage girls and now that I have a daughter, I cannot imagine someone doing this to my child. There’s also the death of an infant that is the exact age thar my baby is currently and that was really hard to read about as well. If I knew all of that prior to starting this book, I definitely would not have read it, but I did have to finish it once I started it unfortunately so that I could figure out who the murderer was.

We follow two storylines and two points of view with our leading lady Anna Andrews, who is a BBC reporter and Jack who is a detective for a small town couple hours outside of London. Anna is called to the small town that Jack is a detective for when a local woman is found murdered in the woods. Much to her dismay she has to go back to this small town that she just have happened to grow up in and see her ex-husband, Jack. The woman murdered was a friend of Anna‘s from when she was young and it has caused Anna two great live some memories from their friendship together back when she was 16. Just when Anna feels like she can wrap things up and go back to London, another body is found: another girl from her friend group back when she was 16. Who is the murderer? Could it be Anna? Is she that desperate to get a good story? Could it be Jack or is that just what the murderer wants us to think is Anna next?

Like I said before this thing is riddled with triggers and I’m not sure I would suggest it to anyone especially young mothers. It was good and twisty but it was a hard read about the depths of a mother’s love and the ache of loss. And I will say, I did figure it out, but it still felt like a good twist.