I’m so excited to be able to share my review for this amazing book! I so enjoyed reading it and just couldn’t put it down. A definite 5 star read for me which I will be recommending to absolutely everyone as I feel it is a must read.
An Act Of Silence is available in ebook now and will be released in paperback on the 11th January. You can get your copy here.
Book Blurb:
MOTHER. WIFE. POLITICIAN. LIAR.
THEN: How far did she go to conceal the truth?
Politician Linda Moscow sacrificed everything to protect her son: her beliefs,
her career, her marriage. All she wanted was to keep him safe.
NOW: What will she risk to expose the lies?
When the voices she silenced come back to haunt her, Linda is faced with
another impossible choice. Only this time, it’s her life on the line…
An Act of Silence is about the abuse of power, the devastating effects of keeping the truth buried, and the lengths a mother will go to save her child.
My Review:
Wow i so enjoyed this book. It was such a chilling, tense and emotional story that I just couldn’t put down and it is one that will be staying with me for ages.
An Act of Silence explores the very difficult subject of abuse that was very difficult to read about. I think it’s the knowledge that situations like those mentioned in the book has actually happened in real life that makes this book quite so chilling. It’s amazing to me that abuse like this still happens and worse that some people can still get away with it.
The story alternates between the perpetrators and what they did and their attempts to push it all under the carpet and the victims, who are having to rebuild their lives and are trying to get justice for what has happened. This makes the book a very poignant and heartbreaking read as the reader is able to see both sides of the story and witness first hand the affect that such abuse can have on the victims. The callus, uncaring attitude of the perpetrators compared with the emotional effects that the victims go through makes for very emotional reading. That victims of such crimes may feel this way and blame themselves is a hard truth to realise.
I felt for the two main characters Linda and Gabrielle. Despite having a difficult mother/son relationship, you soon become aware that they are both quite complex characters that are just searching for love and acceptance. They are actually quite good people underneath it all but have been forced to make some difficult decisions. I did feel a lot of sympathy for the pair of them and the situation that they find themselves in. This increased as the story unfolds and it become more obvious how naive they have been and how deep and twisted the deception goes. I found myself hoping that they would find their way out of their current situation and have a happy outcome.
The author does a great job of slowly unraveling the story so that the facts are gradually revealed to the reader. The story told from multiple points of view also increases the readers understanding of the situation and increases the tension in the book as the reader becomes aware of things that other characters might not be aware of yet and as you start to get an understanding of just how deep and twisted the situation is. As cliche as it sounds I really couldn’t put this book down and found myself trying to hide away from the kids just so I could read a little bit more. I even downloaded the ebook so I could switch to the kindle and read at night when I was up with the baby as I was desperate to read more and find out what was going to happen.
This is Colette McBeth’s third book and I will definitely be going back and reading her other books as I thought this one was outstanding! It would make a great book club book as it would provide lots of great debates and talking points. I can’t wait for someone else I know to read it so I can discuss it with them. A fantastic book that I will be recommending everyone to read.
Huge thanks to Wildfire books and Anne Cater for my copy of this book and for inviting me onto the blog tour.
About The Author:
Colette McBeth is the author of three critically acclaimed psychological thrillers. Her latest, An Act of Silence, is part domestic, part political thriller. In her former life Colette worked as a political correspondent for the BBC at Westminster, a news reporter and started out on regional newspapers. She lives by the sea with her husband and three children and never has enough time.
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