Meet Cole. One of the really good guys. Supportive of his wife, dedicated to family life, home when you need him. Not a drinker, not looking after other women. Then, suddenly, his perfect family picture is shed into pieces as his wife is leaving him. Heartbroken, he is becoming almost a hermit, not interested in connecting with anything outside work. And work saved him as he willingly accepts a job far away from the place where his family was destroyed.
Shortly into his new life, he meets Lennie, an artist that loves privacy. They are in love and start writing their story.
But it looks like Cole is not meant to be happy as close to their neighbourhood two women participants at a walk protesting gender discrimination are disappeared and their case starts affecting their love story in the most unexpected ways. They may discover in shock that they not only not know each other, but trusting each other may be out of question.
One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall is shocking, unexpected and sometimes scary too. Through a well written thriller story, it convenes so much women history and feminist topics. Creating this specific context for telling such stories is from the very beginning a very creative and efficient way, because through the topic it can easily attract a diverse readership, otherwise maybe not interested in such approaches.
The suspense comes mostly from what is left untold, where we, as readers, we are invited to be part of the investigation and guess the hidden ways of the characters.
One of the Good Guys is a surprising book from the beginning until the end, with twists that once revealed are about to shake your trust and knowledge in humans. And it is definitely much better to gather this experience through a book than by facing yourself in real life.
Rating: 5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own
Thanks for the blog tour support x
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