Leah
Written on Jul 18, 2013
Tasmina Perry has a formula that works for her novels. It’s a formula that you just can’t beat, and it works every time. Her plots are always focused on unwrapping a mystery, whilst being set in glamorous locations, with rich people (they have to be rich – if they aren’t rich, you just can’t go to Jamaica or Washington at a moments notice) and a cracking plot twist that you don’t see coming. It’s a winning formula and it’s one that despite having read three of her novels now in quick succession, it doesn’t get old at all. Tasmina Perry is a cracking writer, and I just adore her books so much.
Deep Blue Sea is possibly Perry’s most ambitious novel to date. All of her plots feature intricate mysteries to be unravelled, but this one is possibly the most intricate and mysterious to date, with so many different twists that I didn’t even see it coming who was eventually unmasked as the evil Scooby-Doo-villain. I loved how Perry takes current-events and turns it into a fabulous plot, this time around it’s the phone-hacking scandal and when we meet Rachel Miller she’s recuperating in Thailand after being chewed up and spit out by the newspaper industry after the newspaper hacking scandals. But when she learns her sister’s husband Julian has killed himself, she’s beside herself in shock. Diana, Rachel’s sister, didn’t think she’d ever want to see her sister ever again, but something about her husband’s death doesn’t ring true, and she wants answers. As Rachel and Diana delve into Julian’s life, it seems his life wasn’t at all what it seemed and he might have been about to blow the lid on something so massive it would cause ripples within his own life.
I really enjoyed Deep Blue Sea. It was yet another excellent Tasmina Perry read, ticking all of the boxes. I loved the mystery, the intrigue, the unravelling of the Denver family and finding out what Julian was doing that could have caused him to commit suicide. I really enjoyed the sisters’ contrasting lives. Rachel, the career-hungry journo, who let her own aspirations get ahead of herself and landed her in hot water, and Diana, the trophy wife. I enjoyed how they reconnected after everything that occurred. The novel was filled with some glamorous, beautiful locations as always, taking us from Thailand to Jamaica. I LOVED the scenes set in Thailand, it sounded so relaxed, so fun, so beautiful, I wanted to go there immediately. I thoroughly enjoyed Deep Blue Sea. It was another staple Perry read, and her fans will devour it, as I did, and I can’t wait for The Proposal later in the year.