Eve is a maths teacher and she’s married to the handsome, charismatic English teacher Nate. Their marriage has become boring of late, they’re having sex once a month and they kiss exactly three times a day, no more, no less. Eve is obsessed with shoes, expensive shoes.
Addie is a student of both Eve and Nate, and she’s responsible for the firing of one of their colleagues the previous year. Eve therefore sees Addie as troubled and not very talented at maths, and Nate sees Addie as a very talented poet. He is paying her a lot of attention and kind of mentors her – but secretly grooms her.
So the shoe thing, I don’t get it – I have difficult feet so shopping for shoes is the bane of my existence and I can’t think of anything worse. I also don’t understand paying a small fortune for a pair of shoes because they have red soles… besides that, there’s a lot of grooming going on in this book. I didn’t like Eve, like I said, the shoe thing… and she seemed just a horrible human being. She complains about her husband being distant while she’s having an affair herself.
Like all of McFaddens books, it’s fast paced and has a twist at the end – and I didn’t see that coming… it was definitely a WTAF moment!
Read for the Read Between the Lines Reading Challenge 2024.
Prompt 41: A Book by a Favourite Author.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
