Review: Barren Cape - Michelle Prak

-





 
 
 



Review: Barren Cape - Michelle Prak - April 2025

Scrolling through my Libby Library books, I came across this Australian thriller called Barren Cape which sounded up my alley. The book starts with Mac and Elise being evicted from their home as the landlord wants to use it as a holiday home as he can get $200 a night with it. Elise heads back home to her parents, but Mac, she has no one and couch surfs for a while until she finds herself with no other option than to sleep in her car.  Driving around, Mac comes across Barren Cape which is out in South Adelaide. It was to be a luxury hotel but of course, when COVID hit, the money dried up and now the luxury hotel is just a concrete shell with a few rooms. Mac breaks in and sets up camp in one of the rooms, she isn't the only one here though as we have also in other areas - an escaped convict and a sixteen-year-old girl Brex. Each just looking for a place to lay their head away from the world. The book splits into two storylines and plots where we have Brex and her two friends who accidentally kill someone and hide the body and Mac and her friends who were mainly invited by Elise who find the body. When their story intersects, Mac is kidnapped by Brex and her friends. Can she escape or will she die in this Barren industrial building? At the end of the book though, Mac won't be the only one with dark secrets as Brex and Elise end up tangled as well. This was a great AU thriller and also shone the spotlight on an issue that is happening everywhere around the world with not enough houses for people and a strong case of homelessness or moving back in with family occurring.

Amazon: https://amzn.to/4jL6mQg




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Review: Steel Princess - Rina Kent

-
Image
Review: Steel Princess - Book #2 Royal Elite Series - Rina Kent - December 2019 At the end of Book #1, we were left on a cliffhanger of Elsa being pushed into the pool. At the beginning of book #2, she is saved by a newcomer to the school - Knox.  We can see some friendly flirting but nothing more going on between these two, but it riles up Aiden who still has this mindset of "if I can't have her, no-one can" especially since he is supposed to be engaged to Silver Queens. During Book #2 Elsa starts to recall some more memories and goes to Dr.Khan in hopes that he can open her Pandora's box and can restore her full memories of what happened before she was seven years old. We also catch a glimpse during this book of her past and why Aiden King's father blames her for his mother's death and why Aiden considered Elsa a ghost. I liked this book as it was more intense with Elsa's memories and past returning. In Book #2 it is revealed about he...
Read more

Review: The Hoodie Girl - Yuen Wright

-
Image
Review: The Hoodie Girl - Yuen Wright - August 2021 Now and again, I will come across a book that I have never heard of and the author is also unknown to me and I will give them a go. This weekend, for me that was The Hoodie Girl by Yuen Wright. As readers know, I just absolutely adore the Library App - Libby and find so many awesome reads on there. In The Hoodie Girl we meet Wren who loves to try and be invisible, she is just skating by on life and has this obsession with her Red Hoodie - it's a comfort thing we later learn as a few years ago, Wren was in a car crash with her Dad and sister Emma. Wren was the only survivor and now suffers panic attacks, nightmares, and bad anxiety. At school, she is the heads-down type of girl and has one best friend Mia. That is until one day, she is bumped into by Asher Reed -he is the school's Mr. Popular and captain of the Hockey Team. As the week goes on, Asher needs to know the girl's name and soon he learns that she is none other...
Read more