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This Is What Happened by Mick Herron
Aug. 27th, 2018 07:32 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Something’s happened.
A lot of things have happened.
If there was a way of rolling back time, she wondered how far she would go.
Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in London, with no family except an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the king of person who could vanish from the face of the earth without anyone taking notice.
Or just the kind of person MI5 needs to thwart an international plot that puts the whole of Britain at risk.
Now one young woman has the chance to be a hero – if she can think quickly enough to stay alive.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Mick Herron’s standalone psychological thriller is an interesting, if ultimately unsatisfying affair that makes excellent use of misdirection and manipulation and features a genuinely creepy antagonist but which suffers from the fact that Maggie is so passive and accepting that it becomes increasingly difficult to sympathise with her plight, coupled with an ending that I found disappointingly open-ended.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED was released in the United Kingdom on 7th June 2018. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
A lot of things have happened.
If there was a way of rolling back time, she wondered how far she would go.
Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in London, with no family except an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the king of person who could vanish from the face of the earth without anyone taking notice.
Or just the kind of person MI5 needs to thwart an international plot that puts the whole of Britain at risk.
Now one young woman has the chance to be a hero – if she can think quickly enough to stay alive.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Mick Herron’s standalone psychological thriller is an interesting, if ultimately unsatisfying affair that makes excellent use of misdirection and manipulation and features a genuinely creepy antagonist but which suffers from the fact that Maggie is so passive and accepting that it becomes increasingly difficult to sympathise with her plight, coupled with an ending that I found disappointingly open-ended.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED was released in the United Kingdom on 7th June 2018. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
