PRESSURE – Betsy Reavley
Today I am pleased to be able to
participate in the blog tour for Pressure, the fabulous new book by Betsy Reavley. My thanks go to Sarah Hardy
at Bloodhound Books for my spot on this tour.
About the Book
When the submarine departed, none of
the ten people on board knew it would turn into a nightmare.
Trapped on the sunken vessel on the
bottom of the ocean and unable to escape, one of them is discovered dead. The
tension escalates as the survivors realise there is a murderer among them, who
is preparing to strike again and again…
With mounting
desperation, people begin to turn on each other. While they struggle to
identify who is responsible, each must contend with their own past, the claustrophobia
and the secrets they are hiding.
But who is
who? And which of them will be next to die?
Below the surface,
the pressure is building and time is running out…
Review
I was so pleased to be able to read this book as part of the blog tour. The last book I read by Betsy Reavely was Fraility back in 2016 and cannot believe that the other books by Betsy are still sitting on my kindle waiting patiently to be read 😡. I seriously need to rectify this and catch up. 😏
Pressure is centered around a group
of people who are set to star in a film based on a submarine which experiences
problems and starts sinking and how the people on the sub cope as one by one
things start to happen.
I couldn’t think of anything worse
and this would be my worse nightmare to be based on a submarine, I remember
vividly going on one of those underwater trips when in Fuerteventura last year
and our daughter wanted to go on one. I
never felt so claustrophobic in my life and felt so sick and couldn’t wait to
get off. I had never been so relieved to
get back on “dry land” and vowed never to do anything like that again.
Pressure is told in alternating
chapters with each of the people on the sub advising how they came to be on
board as well as chapters about one of the character who was abused by their
mother.
We follow the members and watch
as things start to happen to the people on board.
Through the chapters wrote
through the eyes of the child being abused and I was reading further and further
into the book, I kept feeling I had worked out who this was only to be proved
wrong time and time again as I kept guessing.
Betsy Reavely is a writer who
knows how to grab the reader by the hand and transport them into the depths of
the story and keep them there and this made me gasp from breath time and time
again.
About the Author
Author of The Quiet Ones, The Optician's Wife, Frailty, Carrion, Beneath the Watery Moon and the poetry collection The Worm inthe Bottle. Betsy was born in Hammersmith, London.
As a child she moved around frequently with her family, spending
time in London, Provence, Tuscany, Gloucestershire and Cambridgeshire.
She showed a flair for literature and writing from a young age
and had a particular interest in poetry, of which she was a prolific consumer
and producer.
In her early twenties she moved to Oxford, where she would
eventually meet her husband. During her time in Oxford her interests turned
from poetry to novels and she began to develop her own unique style of
psychological thriller.
Betsy says "I believe people are at their most fascinating
when they are faced by the dark side of life. This is what I like to write
about."
Betsy Reavley
currently lives in London, with her husband, 2 children, dog, cat and chickens.
Social Media Links
Website: Bloodhound Books Website
Twitter:
Betsy Reavley
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My thanks to Betsy Reavley for letting me read an advance copy of this book and the
publishers Bloodhound Books for my spot on the
blog tour along with NetGalley for granting my request to
review this book.
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