Book Review #51 After he killed me

After he killed me

Author : Natalie Barelli

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Language : English

Genre : Psychological thriller

About the book

Emma’s friends are close. Her enemies are closer.

Emma Fern has won at life: she’s a prize-winning author and she’s blissfully happy with her husband, Jim. It wasn’t an easy rise to the top, but Emma knows you can’t achieve success without sacrifice. The trouble is, Jim knows that too.

As her literary triumph starts to fade into the past, Emma comes under pressure to write a second bestseller. But her big secret is that she didn’t write the first one. She’s a fraud, and the only people who ever knew the truth are…no longer a problem.

What Emma didn’t count on was Jim playing the long game too. He has his own secrets—and a dangerous plan that could derail her beautifully orchestrated life. Faced with the loss of everything that defines her, Emma is forced to take increasingly desperate steps.

She won’t go down without a fight. And as Jim should know, she won’t fight fair.

About the Author

Natalie Barelli can usually be found reading a book, and that book will more likely than not be a psychological thriller. Writing a novel was always on her bucket list, and eventually, with Until I Met Her, it became a reality. After He Killed Me is the second and final book in her Emma Fern Series.

When not absorbed in the latest gripping page-turner, Natalie loves cooking, knits very badly, enjoys riding her Vespa around town, and otherwise spends far too much time at the computer. She lives in Australia, with her husband and extended family.

My take:

'After he killed me' is a beautiful sequence to the author's first novel, 'Until I met her'.

Emma Fern, who is now a Poulton prize winning author, is now under the pressure to write another one, lest she fades into oblivion. But she knows she can't write one. Especially because she hadn't written the first one either.

As luck may have it, she meets a man who works as a ghost writer. Emma gets ready with a plan for her second novel. But the ghost writer seems to be smitten with her.

Her problems don't appear to cease. Someone is sabotaging her life, trying to harm her.

Her husband Jim is not aware of her secrets. But he too has secrets of his own. What happened in the past between the two of them starts resurface.

So what happens next? 

This book is a roller coaster ride filled with doses of adrenaline.The twists keep coming even before we can recover from the first one. The story is so gripping that it keeps us on the edge of the seat to know what more is coming. I enjoyed the twisted story.

The language is easy flowing and fun to read. The cover page is befitting.

I rate it 5 stars.