this book took you down an alley in the dark and left you there with no light. then it handed you itself to read and waited in the darkness for you to do so. because i was scared, i was tense, but also on a wild ride for this one! i was looking around me i was teased i was ready but o ready for each new unravelling to this plot.
it was clever. thats how it felt. so tight on the plot and new exactly where it was taking me and how it would be done.
in this book set in the time of the summer of love there is no love to be had for this era from our Lawyer we meet in this book. he seeks order, he seeks properness and this hippie dippy stuff aint his jam at all.
when he then hears that his friend wants him to draw up a will leaving all his wealth to one of these characters he is not ok with this. his friend wants this will to be solid. but our lawyer cant believe it not least when he then has contact from his friends staff who insist this man is a wrong-un and his been meddling and being a wrong-en in the friends own house.
so what can our lawyer do but set out to investigate. and this will lead him on some unexpected paths to some unexpected people and places.
i truly get the opposite side of what this time might have been like for some people living within it from George's writing. we never hear about this side. and actually sometimes for me when i hear of the goings on at that time i do think for me it would be a nightmare. and to me there seems a side to it that feels darker. so when this book came up and id read the blurb i was all over wanting to read how George would play that ok. and im so glad i got to read it. granted my fears weren't quite so dark, lol. but i loved this twist on the narrative.
it was dark and twisty this book and that feeling was coming off it in ripples. less the summer of love more the feasting off people who wanted love and got it taken by predators.