*TUDOR^QUEEN* 's Reviews > The Other Side of Night

3.5

I usually never read the genre of mystery & thrillers, but an invite from a marketing email put this on my radar. I became intrigued by stellar reviews and the urging to "go in blind" without reading the synopsis. Perhaps I should have "stayed in my lane" and stuck with my usual biography and historical fiction selections.

The fact that I was interested enough to finish the book rates this a 3 star effort...a "good" rating. I was a bit more hopeful in the beginning when the female main character Harri, a British police officer, was on a pleasant blind date produced by a dating app. I was enjoying more of the human element of things, but when the story descended into a police investigation and a deep mystery, I began to lose interest. Without going into a lot of detail, the story involved this female police officer who had been recently fired, and her subsequent private investigation of a recent love interest. The story takes place in country locations in the United Kingdom. The story also involves a trio of physicists who are friends, and a male young child who is orphaned. While the story didn't "wow" me, it retained my interest in a middling fashion until an explosive reveal came very near the end of the book. I was glad I held on until the mystery unravelled, but in future will stick to genres that are more my cup of tea. This has been getting very favorable reviews, so I'm sure I'm just an outlier.

Thank you to the publisher Atria Books who provided an advance reader copy via Edelweiss.