Between You and Me
by Carol Mason
Is her new husband really who she thinks he is?
When young doctor Lauren Matheson meets Joe, an older divorced businessman, at a glittering poolside in California, it’s a chance encounter that seems life-changing for them both. Back home in London, their feelings only strengthen. But Lauren soon discovers that building a happy future with Joe is going to be an uphill struggle…
She’s determined to be a good stepmother to his children, four-year-old Toby, and complicated teen Grace. But under the watchful eye of Meredith, Joe’s intimidating ex-wife, Lauren can’t seem to do a thing right. Why won’t Joe ever take her side against Grace? And what really happened between him and Meredith?
As her husband retreats into a cold, secretive version of the dashing man she met in California, Lauren starts to wonder if she’s made a costly mistake. Was Joe ever the man she thought she married?
My Rating:
My Review:
This was one of those maddening tales that kept me reading well into the night while greatly annoyed with ALL the characters. They each needed a few firm pinches and even a swat or two to the back of the head. Ms. Mason excels at creating curiously compelling yet vile characters I love to hate. Her well-textured and shrewdly paced storytelling lures me into an interwoven trail of storylines, each with an itchy web of nebulous veracity and questionable sincerity, and I just can’t help myself.
About the Author
Carol Mason is the Amazon Charts and Kindle #1 bestselling author After You Left (more than 300,000 copies sold), The Secrets of Married Women, The Last Time We Met, The Shadow Between Us, Send Me A Lover, and Little White Secrets which hit the Bookstat digital bestsellers list top 3 in the week of its launch. She was born in the North East of England where most of her novels are set. She now lives in Canada with her Canadian husband, a rescue dog from Kuwait, and a three-legged cat. When not writing, Carol loves to read, cook, and binge-watch Netflix.
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I just have to laugh at the annoying characters in your desire to pinch them, them, LOL
Don’t you just love it when you can’t put a book down. Great review.
I know it’s an unpopular opinion but I love reading books where the characters frustrate the living crud out of me! I’m glad you enjoyed this one 🙂 And it’s fun to read well into the night (as long as you don’t have to crawl out of bed super early in the morning LOL).
lol, I know exactly what you are saying.. having the characters (or something else in the story) annoy me makes it more real somehow too:)
Sometimes it’s fun to be annoyed with characters! And sometimes… oh, I just wanna shake them!