The Ex

Name: The Ex
Rating: 3.00 (3 reviews)

by Alafair Burke

3 ratings • 3 reviews • 8 shelved

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The Ex

by Alafair Burke

3 ratings • 3 reviews • 8 shelved

Criminal defense lawyer Olivia Randall represents her former fiance, who's been arrested for a triple homicide. As the evidence against him mounts, she wonders if she really knew him.

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ISBN10 0062441744
ISBN13 9780062441744
Publish Date 26 January 2016
Publish Status Active
Publish Country US
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint Collins

Edition Large type / large print edition
Format Paperback (US Trade)
Pages 432
Language English

Reviews

This is the first Alafair Burke I've picked up, and I'm glad I did. It made me realize it had been a while since I read a good thriller and how much I enjoy them!

The main character here is Olivia Randall, a New York defense attorney who receives a call one morning from the daughter of her ex-fiance, Jack. He's been arrested for murder, and the apparent primary victim is a man connected to the murder of Jack's wife. Jack's story? He was only there to meet a woman he was interested in, and he has no idea what happened.

It's up to Olivia to figure out what really happened. Is Jack telling the truth, or did he really do it? And if he's innocent, why does everything point directly to him? And is it all Olivia's fault? Did she break him, 20 years ago?

There are a lot of good twists and turns here, and I enjoyed the ride!

dpfaef

Written on Jul 17, 2016

3.5 rating. Good but not great.

Leah

Written on Mar 22, 2016

This was an interesting read. I kind of wanted more pace - more action, more thrills, just MORE. It lacked something, and it proves that once again, trying to bill a book as the "next Gone Girl" is just tying a noose round the neck of a book like this. This is nothing LIKE Gone Girl. Not in the slightest. Not in tone, not in writing, not in plot and it's getting to be a really old thing for publishers to wheel out for every single thriller published.

I never cared for any of the characters. I tried so hard to like Olivia, but she was too cold. Too unemotional. Jack I couldn't have cared less for. The daughter was the only one who actually jumped out at me, and I can't even remember her name and I only finished reading half an hour or so ago.

The ending would have been a surprise, if it hadn't taken so long to get there that I guessed it.