By Alison Evans
**Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review**
This book wasn’t what I expected it to be – I thought it was going to be something similar to Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy with the travelling between parallel universes, but it was completely different. For the first few chapters I didn’t think I was going to enjoy it, but as I read on I was more and more pleasantly surprised.
This is one of the few books I have read where I did not dislike any of the characters. Ida and Daisy were written perfectly and their relationship was believable. I thought Frank should have had a bigger part in the plot as I really liked him as well. The romance between Ida and Daisy was also done really well I thought – it wasn’t overdone and although it was a prominent part of the story, the plot did not revolve around it.
The only part of the book where I felt I was let down was with the ending. Ida spent a lot of time on her own in the last half of the book, which I disliked. I liked all the other characters and would have liked if they had played a bigger part in the story. The answer that Ida was looking for was staring her in the face for half the book and seemed so obvious, and when she finally does discover it the story ends very abruptly.
If this is the start of a series then I would definitely read more – Ida gets an interesting job offer towards the end of the book which would be interesting to read about, to see if she can maybe help others that are in the same situation as she was. All in all, a quick, easy and enjoyable read.
UPDATE: I've been thinking about this book a lot since I read it back in December and I think I enjoyed it a lot more than I first thought. I keep thinking about the characters a lot, and I might reread it sometime soon. I've never read an LGBT themed story before but I really liked this and I'd be interested to read more by the same author.
Rating: 7.5/10.
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