The Sunday Girl

Title: The Sunday Girl

Author: Pip Drysdale

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Australia), 23rd August 2018

Pages: 400 pages

How I Read It: ARC book

Genre: Mystery and Thrillers

My Rating: 4.5 Cups

Synopsis:

The Girl on the Train meets Before I Go to Sleep with a dash of Bridget Jones in this chilling tale of love gone horribly wrong …

Some love affairs change you forever. Someone comes into your orbit and swivels you on your axis, like the wind working on a rooftop weather vane. And when they leave, as the wind always does, you are different; you have a new direction. And it’s not always north.

Any woman who’s ever been involved with a bad, bad man and been dumped will understand what it feels like to be broken, broken-hearted and bent on revenge. Taylor Bishop is hurt, angry and wants to destroy Angus Hollingsworth in the way he destroyed her: Insidiously. Irreparably. Like a puzzle, he’d slowly dissembled … stolen a couple of pieces from, and then discarded, knowing that nobody would ever be able to put it back together ever again. So Taylor consulted The Art of War and made a plan. Then she took the next step – one that would change her life forever.

Then things get really out of control – and The Sunday Girl becomes impossible to put down.

My Thoughts

It certainly was impossible to put down! I read this book in 3 days and it had me on the edge of my seat the whole time! I have read many thrillers before, but this would have to be in my top 10.

I really enjoyed the way every chapter started with an excerpt from The Art of War, this was the book that the protagonist, Taylor, was using as a guide to ruin her ex-boyfriend, Angus.

“But everybody has their limit, a boundary you just can’t cross, and Angus eventually found mine...that amicable, pliable, understanding girl finally snapped.”

Angus seemed like a dream come true at first and Taylor was swept off her feet,

“With Angus, life was like a movie: a dozen red roses at work for no reason, phone calls from the restaurant bathroom in the middle of a business lunch just to say that he missed me…”

She soon noticed little things about him that made him not so perfect and to keep him interested, she did things she wouldn’t normally do.

“But then, after a few months, the night set in. A tapestry of darkness began to weave itself around us...I knew how wonderful Angus could be if he was happy…”

Taylor was very lucky to have such a supportive best friend, in Charlotte, who helped her get through the break-up, but even she didn’t know how far Taylor was planning to go.

She set about destroying him one step at a time, she made a list:

“Reputation. Work. Money. Family. Health. Home. Sanity. Sex. Other.”

I really liked how calculating and clever Taylor was in her plan for revenge and it made for some really interesting reading that made you want to keep turning the pages and reading more and more. The chapters were quite short so that also made it an easy and quick read.

I recommend this book to anyone who loves a good psychological thriller with a very unexpected twist at the end.

“And I know that one day I will stop thinking of Angus...I know that one day he will become just another thing that changed me, that made me who I am. Because that’s how life works: Some love affairs change you forever.”

This review is based on a complimentary copy from the publisher and provided through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The quoted material may have changed in the final release