#MeToo–Book Review

Hello all! Back with a new psychological thriller book, that is ranked one of the top bestsellers, #MeToo by Patricia Dixon which is based on true events. So here’s my review!

It can happen to anyone… #MeToo

When Billie receives a letter from the man she loves, she returns home, determined to help him.

Desperate to prove his innocence, Stan is in prison, convicted of a crime he swears he didn’t commit.

Kelly, his victim, is struggling to cope after an ordeal that left her traumatised and lonely.

Whilst hiding a secret of her own and battling demons from her past, Billie is enlisted by the private detective who is looking for vital evidence that might set Stan free.

Billie has complete faith in Stan but when she hears Kelly’s version of events, cracks begin to appear and her faith wavers.

There are two sides to every story and Billie needs to get to the truth, but the deeper she digs, the more lies are unearthed.

Who will she believe?

And who is really telling the truth?

Pages:- 318 pages

Date published :- May 27th 2020

Genre:- Women’s Fiction/Psychological Thriller

Rating:-

Patricia Dixon lives in Manchester UK and is the best selling author of nine books.
She has written multi genre stories set in her home city and the Loire, a place to close to her heart and from where she gathers inspiration for her characters and tales.

In May 2018 she signed with Bloodhound Books, leading crime and thriller publishers.

Recently Patricia was long-listed for The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize and has been nominated in the Crime Fiction Addict Readers Choice Awards. Her books regularly appear in the top slots for readers and bloggers book of the year.

If you would like to get in touch please follow the links below. Everyone is welcome.

Email : dixon.patricia@icloud.com
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The story plot line appealed to me and both the Goodreads and Amazon had given an almost five star rating to this book so I decided to try this book out. This book is based on true events. Stan is accused of a rape which he denies committing and is in prison. He sends a letter to his ex-girlfriend, Billie, asking her to help him. Billie believes that Stan is innocent and she decides to help Stan. She then meets Kelly, the woman who accused Stan of the rape. And then Billie wasn’t sure to who she should believe–Stan’s version or Kelly’s version.

I am not going to push too much spoilers in here but here are my thoughts about the book.

• As a reader, I was really hooked into the story, and wanted to badly know what happened in the end, the writing was good, the author did a good job of keeping the reader hooked into the story until the end.
• The story is itself realistic as it goes on. Even in real life, when a woman accuses a man of raping her (even if that man was innocent and never actually raped her), the police are quick to arrest the man and put him behind the bars. Here’s the thing. In real life, it is hard to identify who are the real victims and who are the ones who are just seeking attention rather than playing as a victim. As such the real victims may not get the justice that they really need. The author did a good job of portraying that in the book, making the reader understand the situation. It also helps us that sometimes, the legal system can be missing and is not able to assist the ones who needed the most.
• You can also completely understand the turmoil Billie is in–she wants to believe in Stan but as a woman, she wanted to believe in Kelly and so she had no idea who to believe in. So as a reader, you feel sympathetic towards Billie.
• The author has done tremendous research about domestic abuse and rape cases that she had done a good job making the book realistic as possible.
• Overall the writing was good, easy to understand and you can actually picture those scenes in your head while you are reading the book.
• Many of the characters in here are favorable but I think I favor Billie the most. You can also see how much Billie had struggled in her life and you admire her courage as a woman.
• I like the parts of the letter that Stan had written to Billie, you can actually note the desperation of how much he wanted Billie to believe him.
• The fact that this book was based on true events really piqued my interest to read this book.
• It was very interesting, particularly the middle part when Billie, disguising herself meets Kelly for the first time and you are wondering if Billie was going to take Kelly’s side or not.
• I like Billie’s relationship with Stan’s mother and brother as they all try to support each other during the difficult time. The author did a good job at how the family of possibly an innocent man is going through such humiliation and shame in public.
• The ending was good.

This book was actually emotional to read–there is a bit of violence in the book (though no gory sex parts) and also how the family of accused had to go through in public feeling humiliated and the victims who are seeking help from community centers. Overall, this is a good book to read, I rate this book as five stars!