On the eve of her 40th birthday Sophie awakes in the middle of the night to find a strange man in her bedroom. He hands her a letter and instructs her to read it aloud to the guests present at her birthday party the following day. If she doesn't something terrible will happen to her family and dearest friends...
You Sent Me a Letter starts off promisingly and I thought that the basic plot line held promise but unfortunately it failed to deliver and was not an enjoyable book for me.
I found the style in which it was written did not match the plot, Sophie is ditsy and the story was told in a manner that felt as if I was reading a rom-com rather than a thriller. The book contained lots of light hearted humorous conversations and the majority of the book detailed the preparations being made for the party. (There is a whole chapter where Sophie is getting her hair done, another where she gets beauty treatments etc etc).
Aside from this fluffy writing style I found that the plot was simply too far fetched to be believable, there were so many elements to it that I can only describe as being silly.
I expect a thriller to be somewhat dark and menacing and to draw me in. You Sent Me a Letter felt like a fluffy read and the plot failed to engross me. I only finished it because I was away from home and had nothing else to read. It's a quick unchallenging read but it was the most disappointing thing that I have read so far this year...
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