Alex the Book Reviewer

this book has no capital letters at the beginning of paragraphs it also has no full stops or speech marks it's insanely annoying! Punctuation exists for a reason Mrs!!!  good grief. I started it one evening and could absolutely not follow it at all. However, I persevered the next day and actually got into it. In fact, I really struggled to put it down. I could honestly have read this book forever. Each chapter is the story of one woman. Which, at first, I thought was going to be really annoying, largely because I adored the first character and wanted to carry on hearing her tale. I thought it was going to be a bunch of short stories, only vaguely linked, which I suppose it is in some ways, but it works really well, mainly I think because you are instantly engaged in each woman's story. She writes so well that there's none of that getting-used-to-the-character settling-in period. Chapter one - 1) Amma, 2) Yazz, 3) Dominique. Amma is a strong, black, feminist,...

  If I was the writer of Kind Hearts and Coronets, I'd have read the beginning of this and reached for my phone to give my lawyer some very firm instructions. But then my hand would have hovered two inches above the phone as I  got a couple of pages in. My hand would gradually edge further away from the handset as I turn to the next page and the next ... slowly withdrawing as engrossment settles in. I mean, the story is very, very similar. The premise is exactly the same. Long ignored and unacknowledged child of super-rich man plots revenge on family and plans for inheritance. The inheritance isn't her main motive, revenge on the evil father is. But it's done really well, gets you hooked right from the off. Grace's mother had a short relationship with Simon Artemis a super-rich man but, when she gets pregnant, The Evil Impregnator is no longer interested and returns to his wife. Her mother raises her in poverty and then dies when Grace is still very young. After h...