Synopsis

The story of two people, both as magnetic as they are dangerous, who get caught in an electric game of cat and mouse

The question is, Who is the predator and who is the prey?

Meet Iris: a dark soul with a propensity for obsession, still reeling from a recent loss, who relies on a local grief group to keep her grounded and out of trouble. And now meet Jack: a cagey widower who shows up at a meeting one night and jolts both of them back to life.

From the moment Jack first takes a shabby plastic chair in the circle, he is positively dashing. And Iris can’t help but feel that fate has brought them together.

But their chance encounter sends them racing through a series of hairpin twists where nothing is as it seems and no one plays by the rules. As Iris is drawn deeper into Jack’s world, she begins to realize that her own deceptions may be no match—or maybe they’re the perfect match?—for all the dirty secrets Jack has been hiding.

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Review

If you want to go into a book knowing that you will be taken on a ride, then this might be the book for you.

I’ll admit that Iris is a hard person to like. She was a twin and not treated equally, not even when her sister passed away. It is hard when you aren’t the favorite. This sets her up for who she becomes, and while at times I felt sympathetic towards her, when all is revealed in the end, I sat here with my jaw on the floor, surprised at the details. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so surprised, considering how she acts, but even she sank to new lows.

Jack is not any better. While we think we know what is going on in their “relationship,” there are so many details revealed in the end that might surprise you. Perhaps Jack and Iris are perfect for each other if they weren’t self-destructive.

This book took me on a rollercoaster ride at the end. Just when I thought I had things figured out, I was jerked out of my comfort zone and thrown into a new loop.

We give this book 4 paws up.

About the Author

Georgia McVeigh grew up in the southwest of England and studied English literature at Newcastle University. She started her career as part of the editorial team at a luxury lifestyle magazine, before realizing that her passion lay in books. She joined a leading literary agency in 2018 and became the in-house editor just over a year later. She now splits her time between the agency and freelance editorial work. In 2022, she completed the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course, where she developed the concept for Sorry for Your Loss. She currently lives in London.