Between Us

Mhairi McFarlane is one of my favorite authors. She is fantastic at creating realistic, flawed characters with great emotional depth, putting them into messy situations and having them change and grow. Her writing transports me and doesn't let me go until the final page. This book was no exception.

Between Us is about Roisin who starts to question if her boyfriend of ten years has been keeping secrets from her, based on parallels she notices in the new TV show he wrote.

As the main character goes through suspicion and doubt about her relationship of ten years, you go through the same. It almost becomes a romantic mystery, are her suspicions correct or is she making a mountain out of a molehill? As the reader, are you being led by an unreliable narrator?

I loved the romance in this book even though it was secondary to the story. (I don't want to expand more for spoilery reasons)

The author is also great at depicting dynamics of a friend group. The intricacies of long term friend groups: the ties that are stronger, the ones that don't seem to get along well at all, the WhatsApp group that generates many side WhatsApp groups... I loved many of the side characters within it. Plus they all knew each other from working at Waterstones, great tidbit for book lovers.

This one isn't as strong as Just Last Night by the same author, which is still one of my fave books, but I absolutely enjoyed it and found it hard to put down.

Overall rating: 4.2⭐

Thank you to Avon Books and NetGalley for the eARC!