Review: Far From True - Book #2 Promise Falls - March 2016 One of my favourite mystery/thriller writers is Linwood Barclay, I have to say except for one of his earlier books that I couldn't finish as the plot was too busy for me, I have read all of his books and I am loving the Promise Falls series and heads up to readers, that Far From True ends in a major cliffhanger and when I read the last page , I have to say I was like NOOOOOO as now I have to wait a while for the next one to be released. I do have to say though that if you don't like busy plots or aren't keen on having numerous storylines and find yourself getting confused with so many different characters, then unfortunately this series isn't for you. One of the biggest things I love about the Promise Falls series and Book #2 continued it , is that and I'm not sure if it's been intentional or not but a few of the characters and settings - are found in earlier stories as well as a cou...

  Review: Broken Promise - Book #1 Promise Falls - Linwood Barclay - July 2015 Readers will know that I am a fan of Linwood Barclay's books and have loved them all, except of course The Accident which I got confused as too many characters and it felt a bit disjointed for me. Broken Promise, I thought was going to be a brand new series and then all of a sudden we are thrust into this world where we are intoduced to characters that seem eerily familiar and places a bit deja vu going on. I even talked about it with a friend as Broken Promise seemed to reunite us with old characters like Derek - the party boy who was living next door to the family that got murdered and he was the prime suspect, to the dodgy mayor Randall and to David's cousin Marla and the old abandoned theme park. The other names that seemed familiar were Cal Weaver whom I was sure was in A Tap on the Window series and the policeman's son Travis. All the characters connected in Promise Falls bu...