Please let me add – This is not that story but it put me in mind of it towards the end. Unfortunately it’s was a story that can only be done once in my opinion. One particular thought process took me along the lines of a film I watched recently. I saw elements of other stories in here, only towards the end though, and that didn’t feel good. Keri did her homework and the clues are there throughout the book if you look harder. It’s not a common twist and admittedly I haven’t seen it used often so I do take my hat off for its originality. I’m not sure that this worked, well not for me anyway. I have read other stories that have unravelled this way and found them to be much better in wrapping up the conclusion. When the reveal comes I wasn’t so sure about it. Right up until about 80% it was there but that last little bit just didn’t live up to that awesome read it had been until that point. However, I had issues with it so I couldn’t award the 5 star rating I was so sure this would be. The scene following was simply not enough for me. I think the book could have supported that kind of depravity and it seemed odd to me that it wasn’t there in its descriptive form. There was one scene however that I felt was lacking, I really needed the details of it and I’m not sure entirely why they were missed.

With the intimate scenes I found them to be perfect erotically, I think that was down to the way in which the author wrote them, they didn’t feel like smut, far from it, and they were a natural progression of the storyline. To say it was heart-breaking would be selling it short I think.

But then again, it marked such a monumental moment in Nick’s life and the book as a whole.

One in particular really tugged at me, it was more the aftermath of the event and I can honestly say that this would be the first time I have felt emotion over this particular subject in a book. The emotional connection is all there, I had many moments throughout this read that just stopped me in my tracks. I could envision many places that Keri described. Detroit seemed the perfect backdrop for this book and imagery played its part extremely well. I absolutely loved the descriptive text for the most part. The story sets a good pace and while it contains a few twists and turns that I didn’t really see coming until they were right on top of me, I was invested in this story very quickly and the compulsion to keep reading was there with the relevant chapter hooks.

Ricochet by Keri Lake