With a hurricane barreling toward Florida and Ethan stuck on a business trip, Tessa finds herself imprisoned in her own home with a choice to make: Does she ride out the storm until she can confront Ethan in person, or does she take matters into her own hands?
Increasingly restless and desperate for revenge, Tessa resolves to act. And when she lures Lindsey over a few hours later, there’s no turning back.
What ensues is a battle of wills between two well-matched opponents, blinded by love for the same man but driven by demons of their own. Like storm-ravaged Florida, neither woman will be the same when the skies clear.
He’s mine. Both wife and mistress would stake their lives on it. But only one of them can be right.
**Told in alternating perspectives and set over the course of a weekend, Mine explores the emotional complexity of infidelity and its aftermath and what happens when those two scorned women finally meet face-to-face.**
AMAZON | AUDIBLE | BARNES & NOBLE | BAM | INDIEBOUND
What I thought about Mine
Shocked, upset and sequestered in her house during a storm, Tessa loses it and manages to get Ethan's girlfriend to come over and handcuff herself to the bed. Really. Tessa proceeds to grill Lindsey about the relationship she had with Ethan and it's not pretty. Mine is a story of anger and betrayal and any woman who has gone through this will identify with so much of this story. I'm not sure how it works for someone who's never experienced this sort of pain.
Lindsey's story is told in parallel with what is going on in the present. It's a very interesting way of telling the overall story and I really liked the alternating chapters. It would have been so easy to paint Ethan with broad brush strokes, but giving some page time to Ethan and Lindsey together helped to show how he lived two lives and essentially betrayed both his wife and his lover. But this really isn't a story about him but more a tale of these two women.
Overall, I liked this story. The pace is terrific, drawing in the reader right from the start. I gobbled it down in a day and while some woman may find this topic triggering, I thought Courtney Cole nailed the shock and betrayal of finding out that the person you trusted isn't the person you thought. So good story, great emotional content. I did have a few issues with some of the details that were a bit of a stretch of the imagination. They didn't wreck my enjoyment of the story, but I'm sort of a stickler for details being believable, so that's why I have to give this four and 1/2 stars instead of five. Your mileage may vary as they say.
An ARC was provided for review.
1 comment:
Excellent review! For some reason I like this kind of story. Maybe it lets me flush my anger although I haven't had this happen to me. It sounds suspenseful.
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