Review: Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
N.B. There may be spoilers.
We’re at our layover at Heathrow when we decided to stop at W.H. Smith to pick up some things; some puzzles (a word search and sudoku), a water and a book for me, 2 books and a water for Timi.
Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
This beautiful orange cover had been glistening in Mississauga’s May sunshine my whole stay at Timi & Moyo Money’s (my new friend) place. With only a day left in my stay, I decided to pick up this book, Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce that had been enticing me to read and here’s what I think:
The main character, Alison is a criminal barrister married to a psychologist with one child, Tilly. She drinks way too much, cheats with a senior colleague and got a huge murder case to defend. At the beginning I though she must had some esteem issues because of the way she allows Patrick, her colleague treat her. What are you doing with a guy like that when you have a family at home?
Q&A
What was your favorite part of the book? The end. I’m satisfied that her husband got what he deserved. Her husband is a deranged manipulative and psychotic idiot. I hate men who make you feel guilty about your shortcomings when their own is even worse, just hidden. The irony of a sex addiction psychologist dying from a disgusting fetish really did it for me. I actually thought her husband, Carl was obsessed with their kid Tilly only to find out he was just using her to manipulate Alison.
What was your least favorite? Her relationship with Patrick. I didn’t like it — the cheating, the way he treated her, an affair with a rapist *ewww
Which scene has stuck with you the most? I think learning that Carl got a vasectomy without Alison’s knowledge and the whole time she thought she could not have another child. That’s how you know you don’t have a husband, you have a pyschopathic roommate.
Would you want to read another book by this author? Definitely because I’m enjoying thrillers but I don’t think I’d want to read another domestic noir for another month or two.
What surprised you most about the book? That I enjoyed it and it was a quick read.
Would you ever consider re-reading it? Why or why not? Maybe, becauseI might get a fresh perspective, maybe I’d notice something I didn’t on the first read.
Favorite quotes and passages: “What Carl has done isn’t that far off. She and I have both let our husbands tell us how to feel bad about ourselves, carrying all the guilt for failures that belong to them too.”
