"The Expats" Review

The Expats: A Novel by Chris Pavone
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

First thing, I would love to thank the Crown Publishers for this Advance Reader's Copy that I won through Goodreads. Without them I could have missed out on this amazing book.

"The Expats" as Chris Pavone's first novel shows such an exemplary reason why we suspense, thriller, or mystery book lovers: love what we read. The story held a pretty easy to-understand plot that was built in astonishing plotting of deception and lies.

A lot of other review claimed that this wasn't mysterious enough because of the time intervals between Kate's ignorance from the past 2 years up to the present but let me clarify you that it didn't not sacrificed any big revelation and shocking truth. The timing was perfect and it did not held back until the last few pages, believe you'd be clutching to it until the ending.

Chris Pavone's writing is undoubtedly amazing, giving him a credit to be a really good editor himself. His book held a lot of imagery that few writers cannot handle putting into words, given that a lot of scenes in the book jumps from places. Especially creating his characters, each let alone has a really unique strengths, wits and admiring weaknesses. It might not be action-packed but there is action, a adrenaline rush to the words that you'd be totally shock that came out of nowhere but successfully being let on with it.

Doing this book justice and respect, I am giving it a rightfully earned 5 stars. And the wish for more Chris' books in the future.

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