My review
It is my belief living in the world of today — No good deed goes unpunished.
And this book too follows the same theme. 3 main ladies Sarah, a lawyer, who had a good life with a stable job and an okay relationship with ex-husband. Darcy, her teenage daughter who is still in a stage of rebellion, shoplifts, ditches school, hates mom. Liz, her best friend who is a voice of sanity in the insane world.
AND ENTER LAUREN
Sarah meets Lauren at a nail bar, a woman who does nails and says she is a lawyer, and who smiles a lot. One sob story and Sarah invites Lauren into her life, into her home, and into her office. And soon it is Lauren living her life, with Sarah viewing it from outside.
This is my first book by author Claudia Carroll and I expected a cute family drama with secrets and emotions, maybe an affair or two. And instead I got a sinister creeper of a babe in Lauren.
Claudia did a fabulous job in showing Lauren as a friendly, smiling parasite which wraps its poisonous tentacles around the life giving tree, slowly sucking the sap inside, till the tree is a husk and it dies. And that’s who Lauren is — oily and slimy (I only wanted to read an easy feel good book, and I chose this) And the rest of the ladies are shown as the helpless, unrealized victims, who could only get entangled in the web the black widow laid, realizing the trap far too late. Liz is sensible, tries warning Sarah. But in her need to do good, Sarah heeds it not and loses everything in the process.
How did that happen? Is that the end of everything for Sarah?
Claudia Caroll is an amazing author, I was going to read the book just for half an hour till I got sucked into the story till the end. Creepy Lauren pulled me in too, and I had to read the whole book to know if she gets her dues. Does she???
As I said, no good deed goes unpunished!!!
I received an ARC from NetGalley and publisher Avon Books UK, and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
My rating : 4 stars
About the Author
Claudia Carroll is a number one bestselling author in Ireland and a top ten bestseller in the UK, selling over 670,000 copies of her paperbacks alone. She was born in Dublin where she still lives and where she has worked extensively both as a theatre and stage actress. She now writes full-time. Her 2013 novel ME AND YOU was shortlisted for the Bord Gais Popular Choice Irish Book Award. Her previous novel ALL SHE EVER WISHED FOR spent 12 weeks at the top of the Irish charts.
Book blurb
Sarah Dee has the perfect life. A high-flying job in a law firm, a beautiful daughter and a house to die for. So how does she find herself looking in through the kitchen window while another woman enjoys it all?
When Sarah takes pity on a struggling young graduate who can’t get a job, she thinks she’s doing the right thing. She’s being kind, generous and helpful to others, as she always is. But as Sarah allows the younger woman into her home, her law firm and even her family, is there more to this pretty youngster than meets the eye? And could this be a good deed that goes further than expected?
Product Details
Publication date : 8th February, 2018
Publisher : Avon Books UK
Language : English
Available on Amazon
No good deed goes unpunished
42 Responses
Sounds great! Another one to add to my list. Thanks
Oh yes… This was good. I enjoyed it thoroughly
Sounds wonderful and a novel I would enjoy as well… great review!
Thank you Inge. How are you? It was good story
Thanks love, I’m fine, I had some days off, which I spent reading of course :-). I hope you are well too! Have a great Easter holiday weekend!
You too Inge
No good deeds goes unpunished. Nice line. I think you have read a similar type of book recently.
I feel all books are becoming similar nowadays. But this was little scary
Hmmm K I will write something differently.
That would be cool
I think a guy being police could not find the women’s act in his house.
Yeah but not police, lawyer
Just kidding
shalini by the way I liked your pages in fb
That is so sweet of you. Thank you so much
Beta reading?? Proof reading??
Yea
Yea, I do all that with editing
How much do u charge for a book to edit.
Depends on what draft it is, first draft is 15 paise per word. If it is final draft then it is 10paise per word
Wow that’s amazing. How many books till now did you edit. Can you tell anyone book which you have edited which is a hit. Will you have the name as editor on the book which you have edited.
Many, I don’t keep count. I edit and delete everything. Most books have been released.
That depends on the author, most don’t put the name.
Nowadays there is nothing like hit. There are more than 100 books released per day. To get 1 hit amongst millions is difficult now. So most authors are happy when books get released and they do well
100 books+ edited cool. Hats off keep reviewing and editing
Yp used to edit my friend’s medical articles in journals. Then slowly switched over
So the only thing left is the writer tag for you.
Hahaha nowadays I am drawing after that author
Drawing you mean the cover page.
Thanks
I have seen you drawing a dinosaur sketch which you drew for an author that was what I was asking.
Yea, something like that. Not a cover page, but he wanted inside his novel. I don’t know if he will use it or not.
You are multi talented.
That I don’t know. I want to know if I am. I studied all my life for medicine. Now I want to see what else I can do. Because I don’t know what I can do
I don’t know that you can do all this how could you manage time shalini. I am very poor in managing time.
Even I am very poor in managing time. I know people who can multitask in one day, 2 hours for each activity. I have to try that
Hmmm keep trying
I am trying to do but it is not happening. I end up doing nothing
I don’t do nothing. I read books then when everything else fails. I shut everything and read a novel
What did you mean by drawing after the author.
The author had a thriller about dinosaur, he wanted someone to draw a picture. He gave me a picture, I drew it and gave it to him
Cool
Anyways I would not like to waste the time of multi talented shalini. Hope you find a technique to use the time more efficiently. Probably a schedule for every 2hrs.all the best with that
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Thank you Michael