The Exes' Revenge

This debut thriller had so much potential, and all the elements are there. The problem is that those elements are taken to the extreme at times. The story started off well enough, if a bit different than the norm. We know some key points from the get go, and the book then goes on to give us the details. For about the first third of the book, it was interesting and had me asking all the right questions. However, from there, it starts to spiral and the further it goes, the less believable it becomes. There are some interesting twists along the way - some of which were a little too easy to see coming, but even those did keep me reading to see if I was right. There were also some things in the last part of the book that had me scratching my head. Phillip was already unlikable and the exes had plenty of reason to want revenge, so I didn't understand the need for extra layers of badness. For me, that part took away from the story more than anything else, and caused the last part of the book to be somewhat messy. Nevertheless, the story was interesting enough to keep me reading. Had the story been tightened up a bit and not gone so far over the top, it would've been a much more entertaining read. As it stands, it ended up being just a middle of the road read for me.