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Review: Skin Deep

Skin Deep Skin Deep by Liz Nugent
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I am a massive fan of Liz Nugent, and have been since the day I read the opening line of her first book Unravelling Oliver. What makes her books so enjoyable for me are the opening lines which always make me gasp, and this one was no different. I was enthralled from the moment I read “I wondered when Rigor Mortis would set in…”

The story starts in the south of France, with Cordelia Russell standing over a dead body in her apartment and wondering what to do. If she ran, where could she go, as she had previously isolated herself from her husband and son, and her family had tragically died in a fire many years before. The story takes you right back to how Delia became narcissistic Cordelia who seemed to ruin the lives of everyone she came into contact with.

Usually I have a favourite character, but not so in this book, and not because they were unbelievable, but because the main focus of this story is Delia, and it is actually impossible to like her, she has no redeemable features.

Although you are waiting to find out what happens to her, the story kept me guessing, and I knew there was a twist coming because Ms Nugent always puts a little treat in for us readers to keep us guessing, and when it came it wasn’t what I was expecting it to be!

I wanted to feel sorry for Delia, but I couldn’t find it in my heart, in fact, I hated her! (I hope that doesn’t make me a bad person!) This book isn’t one of those shmaltzy, happy ever after stories which is really refreshing to read, and made it more true to life.

I was gripped from start to finish, and was in one of those predicaments that us Liz Nugent fans have…I wanted to race ahead and constantly read the book, but I knew that by doing that, the story would come to an end far too quickly, and now I have a Skin Deep hangover!

I loved it, it was an enthralling, captivating thriller which has gone into my Top Three books of 2018.

I received an advance review copy of this book in return for an honest review.


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