Our Kind of Cruelty: The most addictive psychological thriller you’ll read this year

by Araminta Hall

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LOVE. OBSESSION.
DANGER.

'Simply one of the most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. In short I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line' GILLIAN FLYNN, author of GONE GIRL

Our Kind of Cruelty is:
'Astonishingly dark.'
'Chilling. Disturbing. Addictive.'
'Gripping, unsettling, and brilliantly constructed.'
'The year's best thriller.'
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VERITY
Things were difficult with Mike by the end. He was too much, too controlling - sometimes, I was afraid of him. But I've moved on now. I'm getting married to the man of my dreams - he looks after me, but he doesn't stifle me. Mike and the games we used to play - that's all in the past now.

It's time to move on.
Mike and I are finished.


MIKE
It was just a matter of time until she came back to me. After what I did, maybe she's right to make me wait. But Verity knows how sorry I am. And the messages she sends me, the way she calls me, the way she acted last time I saw her - no-one acts like that if they've stopped caring.

She'll be mine again.
No matter who stands in my way.
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'A propulsive and addictive study of the darkness of obsessive love. I was completely gripped from the first word to the last.' LISA JEWELL

'As merciless a thriller as I've ever read. Astonishingly dark and sensationally accomplished.' AJ FINN, author of The Woman in the Window

'A tense intelligent thriller that kept me gripped and guessing until the last page - and thinking long after that.' ERIN KELLY

'A searing, chilling sliver of perfection... may well turn out to be the year's best thriller.' NEW YORK TIMES SUMMER READING ISSUE

'Readers of weary of domestic noir should pick up Our Kind of Cruelty, a splendidly written novel that gives the genre a shot in the arm ... pacily written and hugely involving... I was gripped until the last pages.' DAILY EXPRESS

'A taut, fascinating psychological thriller. Original and powerful. Be prepared for questions to linger in your head for a long time afterward.' JULIA HEABERLIN

'Toxic love, obsession, and the unflinching unravelling of a mind. Scarily plausible, a great read.' ALI LAND

'Chilling. Disturbing. Addictive. I couldn't put this down.' EMMA FLINT

'Like watching a slow motion car-crash through splayed fingers' TAMMY COHEN

'An addictive dive into dangerous, extreme obsession. A must-read' JULIA CROUCH

'the orchestration of suspense is masterly' FINANCIAL TIMES

'disturbing and thrilling' DAILY MAIL

'This brilliant, thought-provoking thriller will keep you up at night' BEST MAGAZINE

'Darkly addictive, this is set to be one of the most talked-about thrillers of the year' HEAT MAGAZINE

'I devoured this gripping, unsettling, and brilliantly constructed thriller in one gulp' WOMAN AND HOME

• ISBN10: 1473552648
• ISBN13: 9781473552647
• Publish Date: 19 April 2018
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Cornerstone
• Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 368
• Language: English

Reviews

[kristy]

I received this book from the publisher through Netgalley for a review. Mike and his girlfriend Verity are in love, just no one else seems to realize it, including Verity. For some reason Verity has broken up with him, gotten engaged to someone else, changed her phone number and wont respond to Mike's emails. Oh well, Mike will just have to make her realize how much he loves her and is devoted her. Just like the games they use to like to play when they were a couple he will succeed in this larger game and in the end they will be together forever, whatever it takes. I thought that this was a an interesting novel. Overall the story tone in my opinion was more of a slow burn, even when events took the turn that they did I wasn't overly shocked and thought that it was an expected outcome. It took me a while to get in to the story, but once I did I was engaged and read through the rest quickly. I liked seeing how the same event cant be interpreted so differently by all of the individuals involved. I thought that the author did a good job expressing Mike's reasoning and justification behind his actions, even if they could be considered delusional. I feel that the author did a decent job trying to demonstrate her point regarding the negative view society as a whole can have regarding women's sexual liberation and that there is often the double standard of boys will be boys v.s. the demonization of women for having the same sexual appetites. I didn't overly like either character of Mike or Verity which made me feel somewhat eh about the ending of the story when I feel like potentially it was meant for the reader to have more sympathy/outrage regarding how it all turned out. Overall though it was an engaging, entertaining read and I would recommend it to others who enjoy skewed, potentially unreliable narrators and more of a character based, thought provoking story compared to non-stop action.