Review: The Second Cup - Sarah Marie Graye
Review: The Second Cup - Sarah Marie Graye - February 2018
This book was an interesting one; it had grabbed me originally by not only the cover with the
butterflies in the jar but also the tagline - "Can someone else steal your
suicide"? Well if Ryan's Bed by
Tijan is anything to go by, we know that it's true. I wasn't sure what to
expect, and I have to admit it was a
confusing read as felt in quite a few places disjointed and seemed to go off on
tangents. We have four unlikely friends - Faye,
Beth, Abbie, and Olivia. All of whom their lives are at a stagnant feel. For Faye she never got over who love of Jack - he was
the "one who got away", Beth is a weird one and dreams of her suicide
often and how she would do it, Abbie has been married a couple of times and has
decided this marriage she is in is a loveless one and Olivia is a doormat with
a relationship that is now miserable and not going anywhere. Faye
decides one day to go on the search for Jack and the results of her journey set
a domino effect between her friends as their lives start to collapse. I did find it interesting how the author connected the
characters together from Ethan who had connections to Abbie and Faye , to Beth
whose dream suicide mirrors Jack's , Olivia who when visiting Beth in hospital
spots the girl who made her life hell and led her to the guy she is currently
with and also Olivia's connections to both Abbie and her first ex-husband Paul.
If you are in the mood for a slower paced women's fiction
with a bit of edge, then check out Sarah Marie Graye "The Second Cup” and like most Women Fiction novels, The Second Cup
has a series of discussion questions at the end of the book for readers.
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