Random Things Tours: I Have Something to Tell You by Susan Lewis

 

´I have something to tell you...´ rarely ends up good. This simple saying means more than the opening for sharing a secret, it often hides betrayal, disappointment and treason. I suppose not too many couples survive such a moment of truth. Maybe they actually should not go beyond that very moment anyway. Would you trust someone who betrayed you?

Jessica Wells is a successful lawyer who suddenly is requested personally to assist architect and property developer Edward Blake, accused of killing his wife. But this is not Edward who has something to tell her, but her beloved husband, Tom, who betrayed already her trust once, not so long ago.

I Have Something to Tell You, the latest book by successful writer Susan Lewis is unexpected in the sense of the ways in which we are tempted to trust those very close to us. How else can we live with and near other humans otherwise? What sense does it make to live with the fear of distrusting anyone around us? However, there are even more questions the reading of this book prompted to: what push humans to hurt each other, not only physically, but also by betraying the one who trusted us their life. 

Jessica, by far the most complex character in the book, has to deal with all those questions and her decisions are guided not by anger or the thought of revenge, but by honour and self-respect. After all, when we put a price on our honour, no matter what other will do to us, we will always stay the same, as humans of honour and moral integrity.

From the literary point of view, the negative characters in the book as well are well built and do play very well their role within the construction of the story. All the characters are complex particularly from the point of view of their capacity to chose and look back to their past mischievous episodes.

I particularly liked how the twists are occuring when one expects less. Although the pace is not always too alert - the beginning, for instance, is relatively slow paced for my taste - the surprises took place at the right moments in the most unexpected circumstances and ways.

I Have Something to Tell You is a book where you have to watch out for every detail as in the end, all those small bits of information are coming back together. Although there are sad truths told and hearts are broken, it is a side of the human behavior and character which is revealed. Each and every one of us has the choice of doing good. Or the opposite of it.

Rating: 4.5 stars

Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour, but the opinions are, as usual, my own