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mystery/thriller. The heroine goes to a hypotherapist to get to the root of her insomnia, Brilliantly unfolded. Great writing. Can't wait to find more by this author, I was happy to win this book through Goodreads as I've read and enjoyed the earlier books in Sophie Hannah's series, Kind of Cruel is more of the same and that's both good and bad,

Sophie Hannah doesn't write straightforward plots, and when the complexity works it's pretty impressive, When it doesn't, her books can feel a bit like an overlycomplicated, tangly mess, Kind of Cruel ends up leaning toward the latter while still remaining enjoyable, There were parts, particularly in the middle of the book, that rambled and lacked cohesion, As usual with Hannah, all of the pointofview changes, twists, and misdirections can get a little confusing and overwhelming, but it makes senseish by the end though to be totally honest, I found the ending flimsy, even factoring in the necessary suspension of disbelief.


That being said, I do enjoy Sophie Hannah's writing, and even when I'm not totally convinced by her story, I enjoy watching the pieces fall into place.
She does a good job of writing compelling, flawed characters whose relationships feel real, Amber Hewerdine was losing sleep, and it really wasnt surprising,

Her best friend died in an arson attack, the arsonist had never been identified, and now Amber and her husband, Luke, were bringing up her friends two young daughters.


An incident that happened at a family Christmas spent in a holiday cottage was still troubling her, Lukes sister, her husband and their two young sons disappeared on Christmas day, not returning until the next morning when the refused to give any explanation of what had happened.


And things got worse, When Amber took positive action to deal with her insomnia, visiting a psychotherapist, she found herself under arrest, Kind, cruel, kind

of cruel, she said, She didnt know what it meant, where the words came from, they just came into her head,

The impression of those words had been found on a notepad in the room where Katherine Allen had been found, beaten to death with an iron bar.
The police had no idea what they meant,

Thats how Sophie Hannah set up another fiendishly complicated mystery,

She gave it a few clever twists, and then she offered up a solution that was entirely credible but pretty unguessable, I realised about twothirds of the way through the book who the murderer would probably be, And I was right, but I couldnt put all of the pieces of the puzzle into place until the very end of the book,

I loved watching those pieces fall into place,

There were one or two niggles but they were more than made up for by many, many wonderful things, Im not mentioning specifics, because they really arent things youd want to know before you read the book,

I loved observing the characters, They werent overly likeable, but they were interesting, believable and complex, Real, threedimensional human beings.

And there was none of the slight feeling of ennui Ive experienced once or twice with Sophie Hannahs leading ladies: Amber was definitely a oneoff, She was an intelligent woman she was a professional shed clearly worked to build a strong relationship with the daughters she inherited she had with strong and sometimes unconventional opinions, and she wasnt afraid to speak her mind, though she understood that sometimes it was wiser not to A great character.


I was enthralled by some wonderful dialogue: between Amber and her two girls, between Amber and the Spilling detectives, between Amber and her usually warm but sometimes spiky sisterin law, Jo.
There were times when I could have happily just followed those conversations even if there had been no mystery to be resolved,

The stories of the various members of the Spilling police force evolved nicely, and the mix of their story, Ambers story and the psychotherapists narrative worked very well.


Im a little tired though of the troubled relationship between Simon and Charlie though, and I think its time to call a halt, Its become a little tiresome, and it so clearly isnt going to work out,

Otherwise though Sophie Hannah was at the top of her game, and Kind of Cruel was pretty much perfect,

An intriging puzzle and a psychological thriller perfectly balanced,

And all I have left to say is MORE PLEASE!
like many other books i read, i was intrigued by the title at first, and when i found out that it has a somewhat high rating, i decided to read it,

the overall story is okay, believable enough, seeing the references the author added at the end of the book made me appreciate the fact that she did a thorough research in order to present such a complex story.


but what bothered me so much, that i had to take awayfromwere the characters, the main character, Amber, irritated me so much that i could barely move on to the next page after the firstpages of her story, after a long while, i finally could get the hang of it and start to enjoy the story without a care to what Amber thought/said, but then i found other characters to be just as irritating, and some conversations were just too unbearable since everyone seemed to aim to be thesarcastic/smart speaker.
whenevercharacters or more talked to each other, what started to be a point A to point B conversation turned to be A through C D E F G to B or sometimes they didn't even get to point B after all, which really tired me and made me want to skip to the end of the book.


actually, even the end of the book was just the same, when it got to the part that the whole mystery was unveiled, i felt like i was again taken from point B to F and then back to E and back again to C and then forward to D.
. . and, uh, what was the last point again

it's probably just me, though, maybe if you're a smarter reader than me, who longs for smart amp snappy amp sarcastic conversations regardless of the topic, you'll enjoy this book more than i did.
but since this is my review, i just have to say that i had too high of an expectation before reading this book, and was a bit disappointed with it.
it's less entertaining and more annoying, that 'wanting to know who did it and why' was the only reason i kept reading on till the last page, A couple of years prior to the events of this novel, Ambers best friend, Sharon, dies in a house fire and, as she had agreed so to do should the need arise, Amber and her husband, Luke, take in Sharons two daughters.


Seeking help for her insomnia Amber visits a hypnotherapist, She is also obsessed by events several years earlier when she and her extended family stayed one Christmas at a large, rented house, Inexplicably, Ambers sisterinlaw, Jo, Jos husband, and their two sons, went missing forhours, Though they returned unharmed, it was understood that this event must never be spoken of again,

The police are investigating the murder of a woman, They have few clues. In the murdered womans flat, on a notepad, were found the imprints of the words: “Kind, Cruel, Kind of Cruel”,

Amber is upset by her first hypnotherapy session, As she leaves the hypnotherapists office she encounters the woman who apparently has the next appointment, In a kind of stupor she mutters the words found in the dead womans flat, and the woman who has the next appointment just happens to be a police officer.


This somewhat unlikely coincidence is just the first of many in a book I found to be, in turns, disconcerting, disorientating, beguiling, fascinating, irritating and annoying,

I had not read one of Sophie Hannahs books before, nor had I read a book like this one before psychological crime novel

I had little clue what was going on for the firstpages.
I think this was intentional, The narrator mainly Amber, but not always is of the unreliable kind, Each chapter is introduced by another narrator and we dont realise that this is the hypnotherapist until about a third of the way through, Once a few of the pieces fell into place, the pace picked up, my interest was piqued, and I was keen to get through the book,

The problem was, really, about three quarters of the way through, once the murderers identity became clear, a lot of the faults in the book also become clear.


Had I rated the book at thepoint I would have given it/, Immediately after reading it, I would have said/, Now, several hours after finishing it, and having thought about the story in more detail, I realise how unsatisfying it was,

SPOILER ALERT

The murderer is Ambers sisterinlaw her husbands brothers wife Jo, The reason for the murders is that Jos sister, Kirsty, has severe learning disabilities and is looked after full time by Jos mother, Hilary, Hilary made it clear to Jo when Jo wasthat Jo would have to take on the fulltime care of the sister when Hilary dies, Jo cant live with this prospect and ends up killing two people as well as setting fire to Ambers house,

Hannah goes into the psychological reasons for all of this in great detail over the lastpages of the novel but, in essence, its all supposition, At no point do we see things from Jos point of view, Exactly why looking after Kirsty would be so dreadful is never explained, This would not sit well within anyone who has to care for such people, Jos Mum, Hilary, is painted as a villain of the piece, putting too much pressure on Jo, but we never hear her side of the story either,

The police just seem incompetent, Amber seems to easily assume the role of investigating officer this is surely incredibly unlikely, Furthermore, the sister of one of the police officers also seems able to do the same,

I can see what the authors done read about some kind of psychological problem emotional/covert incest and then sort of reverse engineered the story,

When you dont know whats going on, your interest is maintained, and then once you find out, you can think “Ah, clever, I see what shes done here”, but then afterwards you just end up thinking “Hang on, THAT never would have happened”, “Wait, the police would NEVER have let a suspect do that”, “But theres no good reason why she should have reacted so violently to that situation”, and “Nah, thats just too unbelievable.
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Ultimately, a highly promising book for the firstand then, after that, very disappointing indeed,

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Amber Hewerdine suffers from chronic insomnia, As a last resort, she visits a hypnotherapist, doubtful that anything will really change, Under hypnosis, Amber hears herself saying, "Kind, cruel, kind of cruel, " The words awaken a vague memory, but she dismisses the whole episode as nonsense, Two hours later, however, Amber is arrested for the brutal murder of a woman she's never heard of, and the only way she can clear her name is by remembering exactly where she's seen those words.


The story unfolds from the perspectives of the therapist, Ginny Saxon from Amber and from various detectives involved in solving two murders, including Charlie Zailer and Simon Waterhouse, even though Charlie is not "officially" on this case.


Charlie and Simon are married, but they have issues, We have learned about them in previous books, but they are pinpointed again in "Kind of Cruel, "

Amber's world is one which includes her husband Luke and her best friend Sharon's children, Dinah and Nonie, Sharon was murdered in a fire, and this crime is one of the unsolved ones, Another unrelated seemingly murder, of a woman named Katherine Allen, is the one that triggers something in Amber when she hears herself saying the words "Kind, Cruel, Kind of Cruel.
" She believes she has seen the words written down somewhere, . . but where And when She can even describe the notepaper on which the words were written,

How do members of Luke's familyhis brother Neil and Neil's wife Jo, as well as assorted other family membersimpact Luke and Amber Why does Jo seem especially controlling of Amber, and how do Amber's fears and insecurities escalate when around her What was the meaning of a strange disappearance of four members of the family from a vacation house called Little Orchard during Christmas

The fun in reading a book in this series is watching how Simon's mind works in sorting through the clues and making sense of it all.
It is also enjoyable to see how he manages to enlist the assistance of others, like Amber, who might not necessarily have been so cooperative otherwise, In this particular tale, Amber's voice is poignant, even as she portrays an angry, cranky, and sometimes aggressive persona, She has issues with memory, which is also very intriguing to me and the hypnotherapist's voice helps connect the dots for the reader in terms of psychological issues and memory retrieval.


I couldn't put this book down, and the convoluted and twisted pathways to resolution kept me engaged, Five. This is.for me. It took until the lastpages to really get me hooked which means I had to read overpages to get into it, This is a psychological mystery with a very convoluted plot, Detective Simon Waterhouse turns out to be a psychological mystery himself, His wife Charlie Zailer has her neurosis, The plot revolves around a hypnotherapist, I had no idea hypnotherapy was a psychological treatment, I thought it was something people did to change behaviors like smoking and overeating, The story begins with a mystery of a family member who invited her extended family to a Christmas getaway and then disappears for more thanhours with her husband and children before reappearing.
There are some very psychologically disturbed people in this novel, I am intrigued by one of the personalities described, who masquerades as generous, charismatic, and considerate, Although there is a character described as a narcissist, the characteristics of narcissist and sociopath overlap to some extent but are different, I am not sure why I find these personality disturbances so interesting, but if you do as well, you will probably like this book, .