Guest Review: Felicia reviews Live and Let Die by Bianca Sloane

(Blurb): On a bitterly cold January evening, Tracy Ellis went for a jog along Chicago’s snowy lakefront and disappeared. Her body was discovered days later, her beautiful face bashed in with a rock. Police determine her brutal death to be a mugging gone wrong and drop the matter into their cold case files.

Over a year later, Tracy’s sister, Sondra, still can’t come to grips with what happened. She throws herself into her work as a documentary filmmaker to try and forget the cruelty of her sister’s death. However, a chance encounter with a man from Tracy’s past rips the wound open and sends Sondra on a desperate search for answers about the secrets from her sister’s life that may have led to her death.

As Sondra struggles to uncover what happened to Tracy, she’s launched into a tangled web of deceit and danger that put her on a collision course with life and death…

Review:

When I was first asked to review “Live and Let Die,” I checked, online, for reviews of which were often 4′s or 5′s out of 5. Of which I responded with an “okay... I hope this book is good.” Lo and behold! I have received a great book, so let me tell you about it.

First of all, I like how the author frequently (and creatively) shifted points of view without making it confusing to the reader. I also loved how she added to the mystery by using those shifts of views to make the reader predict a certain thing but what actually happens is totally different.

Surprisingly, I love that I have made several predictions throughout the book and all were proven wrong by the twists and turns of this story.

I am a big fan of not having a final conclusion of books until the end of the book which is EXACTLY what I got from “Live and Let Die”; the mystery/ issue was not completely solved until the last page or two.

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The Good: This book kept me at the edge of my seat and longing for more while offering proper closure to the book at the end.

Middle Ground (would normally be considered bad but…): Sex is specifically depicted but it is to enhance the point the author was trying to make

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Rating:

I give “Live and Let Die” a 5 out of 5 stars because not only was it well written but intriguing, gracefully chaotic, and very mysterious.