I couldn´t resist The Call by P.D.Viner. A page turning thriller I´ve read in one long sitting it kept me constantly wired to the story. I am a super-active person with a limited attention span but with a big heart for books therefore, when there is a story waiting for me, I know how to switch the focus.
´I´m coming. It´s you and me against the world´.
From a hotel room, Mia desperately calls Ben, her beloved husband. There is a corpse and a lot of blood. Before explaining herself, she needs help, support and her husband´s presence. Did she turn into an unprofessional killer with a serious anger management issue? The more I delved into the story, the more questions I had. So many that I almost forgot that there should be an answer.
The action takes place within a couple of hours, hours revealing the cracks of their marriage, but there is no light coming out of it. There are dark secrets and breach of trust, there are missed opportunities and lost chances. And as I arrived at the end of the exceptional emotional ride, I was surprised by the ending, which was however totally in sync with the rest of the book: eventful and with unexpected twists every couple of pages.
The piece of resistance of the narrative is the dialogue. Particularly through the exchange between the two there are new details revealed of the enormous puzzle that should be solved in just a couple of hours. All the tensions and the next steps depend on them, of the next word to be uttered between Mia and Ben. I can imagine this book turned into a movie, anyway.
The Call by P.D.Viner is a book that stays with the reader for a very long time. Indeed, marriages may be black boxes, but the codes of the heart are always hard to break, if ever.
Rating: 4.5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of a book tour, but the opinions are, as usual, my own
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