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And we endure 10 hours of them learning lessons about relationships that most of us learn as young adults Kate was a very unsympathetic character Imagine going to the lengths she did to unearth the timeline of the collapse of a relationship for someone that cheated on you and chucked you over five years ago How disempowering Her inner dialogue about Valerie s body and intellect was so cruel and I don t understand why she blamed Valerie for her boyfriend s actions Why wasn t that anger and rage funnelled toward the person who wronged her I don t like that her stalking and creepy actions were largely excused either While her takedown of Tom was excellent.

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Despite how much time we spend in Kate and Valerie s heads which could be because of the monotone delivery of the audiobook Characterization was weak in general all men were monsters and all women basically those horrid Twitter wine moms of 2017 The mysteries Jessamine and the haunted chapel threads weren t fleshed out and felt like weird afterthoughts rather than a core part of the story I picked up a weird anti abortion undercurrent too The pace of the book is agonisingly slow The gotcha moment isn t really a gotcha because the listener knows the truth about Kate and Valerie s connection from the beginning it comes late in the book too The pace picks up around 90% but the drama is pretty anticlimactic especially with all the inner monologues we ve sat through to get there The ending felt unsatisfactory almost like the author didn t know how to end it To be honest.

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This was good Definitely a psychological thriller but with a twist of something extra that really allows you to see through the characters see into them really Initially this feels like a slow burn but there is an ominous undercurrent that will keep you invested into the second half of the book where the story becomes so fascinatingly complex with really honest vulnerability Kate who was abandoned by her long term partner Max five years ago for another woman another pregnant woman is rebuilding herself and moving on however she is still fragile still looking for answers so when an opportunity presents for her to relocate to the small town of Bridgewell where Vee and her daughter live it seems like the best option for answers Vee is equally trying to pick up the pieces of her life after kicking Max out he has monthly visits with Iona but seems to keep making his way into Vee s bed Inevitably the two woman cross paths and the story that unfolds is chilling eye opening and genuinely moving There s a lot to take in The ending suggests a sequel I d be first in line to read it if that s the case The narration for the most part was really enjoyable there were a few minor sound issues but nothing to detract from the story Thank you to Wavesound by W F Howes via NetGalley for the opportunity to review this ELC Liz Evans From the very first page I knew I was going to enjoy this book. Book Catherine wheeler What a perfect premise the person you are stalking shows up in your world and you have a legitimate reason to integrate yourself into their world Such a clever way to start this engrossing nail biting thriller. Catherine wheel goring Meet Kate a brittle damaged individual and her nemesis Vee warm and funny but also broken and their common connection is their ex partner Max A narcissist gaslighter and frankly awful human who has managed to destroy the self esteem of both these women. Catherine wheel chords Kate wants to understand why Max ended their relationship convinced Vee was the catalyst Vee totally clueless about Kate and how she arrived in her life feels trapped by her past association with Max because their union produced a daughter Iona. Catherine wheel goring menu Vee s attraction to artist Tom is understandable she is lonely and when he starts paying her attention she begins to feel she is actually loveable Unfortunately she ignores the warning signs for he is just like Max only his character is even darker and dangerous. Thriller Catherine wheelchair This book had me up late at night reaching for answers at every twist and turn I loved it Liz Evans I downloaded this audiobook from NetGalley thinking it would be a standard domestic noir in which a woman driven crazy by a toxic man went on to do toxic things herself. Thriller Catherine wheeling But there is waaaaaaay to it than that The author is a psychotherapist who was motivated to pursue her PhD looking at the portrayal of women s complex psychological and emotional states in psychological thrillers The resulting book Catherine Wheel makes for a fascinating read If you like Sarah Vaughan s work you ll probably like this too for my money it has the same nuancing of the lead characters We hope that we wouldn t act like Kate in Catherine Wheel but Evans has written her so well that we can understand how she has ended up in the situation in which she finds herself. Catherine wheel crank lyrics A good domestic noir should I think make us feel uncomfortable while still wanting to turn the pages keep listening It s a fine line to tread I believe that Liz Evans has trodden it with perfect poise Three Word Review Catherine wheel spinning Liz Evans Why do women seem to not want to let go of men that treat them so poorly Kate never recovered from Max leaving her for Vee who is pregnant with Max s child So what does she do Move to Bridgewell to befriend Vee where she lives separated from Max with Iona Max s daughter Kate and Vee seem to connect over their scathing of men There are a lot of inner thoughts of Kate and Vee tossed throughout this story though they don t seem to add to any drama. Catherine wheel chords Both Kate and Vee were not strong or assertive women They were quite wishy washy and seemed to be very ordinary Kate was aggressive and vengeful than Vee with an obsessive streak Writing a book to explore how women s emotions are captured in thrillers is an interesting way to write a thriller and illustrate how actions have much darker consequences than first realised The past of both Kate and Vee provided good context for the present time and also created a heightened sense of tension in their relationship which they were both oblivious to until it was too late The introduction of Tom a potential love interest for Vee was unsettling And when Kate decided to also make a connection with him for her own conniving purposes it become a little obscure and twisted The main concern I had with Tom was that his backstory was not fleshed out enough Even though this book was concentrating predominantly around the emotions and mental well being of Kate and Vee this background info could have provided strengths to their actions and thoughts. Catherine wheels A thought provoking story to read Liz Evans Catherine Wheel is a psychological thriller with an ever present ominous atmosphere The story is told from the alternating perspectives of two women who are linked by their past relationships with the same man The emotional damage caused to both of them by Max is revealed as the story unfolds I found both Kate and Vee not likeable characters particularly Kate with her desire to seek revenge on Vee However the form this revenge will take is not made clear and is part of the mystery that keeps the reader absorbed Another man enters the lives of both women and learning about him and his motives adds another layer to the cryptic plot that builds with greater pace in the second half of the novel As the story progressed I became engaged with the fate of all the characters especially when the tragic past history of the nearby St Catherine s Chapel became interconnected with the present The collision of past and present led to a satisfying conclusion to this suspenseful story With thanks to Better Reading and Ultimo Press for the preview copy to review BRPreview Liz Evans Originally from the UK Liz Evans is a journalist author former psychotherapist and sessional academic currently based in lutruwita Tasmania She spent the 1990s as a rock journalist in London interviewing the like of Nirvana Pearl Jam Bjork Foo Fighters Soundgarden Marianne Faithfull Tori Amos The Cranberries Red Hot Chili Peppers plus hundreds of others She has since written on film books women s issues health travel psychology lifestyle parenting and environmental topics contributing lead features and interviews to a broad selection of magazines newspapers academic journals and digital platforms around the world. Catherine Wheel thriller books These include The Guardian The Independent NME New Statesman Elle Dumbo Feather Lunch Lady The Originally from the UK Liz Evans is a journalist author former psychotherapist and sessional academic currently based in lutruwita Tasmania She spent the 1990s as a rock journalist in London interviewing the like of Nirvana Pearl Jam Bjork Foo Fighters Soundgarden Marianne Faithfull Tori Amos The Cranberries Red Hot Chili Peppers plus hundreds of others She has since written on film books women s issues health travel psychology lifestyle parenting and environmental topics contributing lead features and interviews to a broad selection of magazines newspapers academic journals and digital platforms around the world. Catherine wheel pub henley These include The Guardian The Independent NME New Statesman Elle Dumbo Feather Lunch Lady The Age TasWeekend Island Magazine and Womankind as well as academic journals Liz is now a freelance literary critic for The Conversation and a regular contributor to Bookish on ABC Hobart She holds an MA in Jungian and post Jungian Studies from the University of Essex and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Tasmania where she is now an Adjunct Researcher She has been awarded two Varuna Residential Fellowships and a third from the Katharine Susan Prichard Writer s Centre She has also received an Arts Tasmania grant for an Education Residency Liz is represented by Curtis Brown Australia She is currently working on her second novel for Ultimo Press site_link Moving and thoughtful with the propulsion of a page turning thriller The book made me desperate to know what would happen to these women and their lives I loved it Kate Hamer author of The Girl in the Red Coat and The Doll Funeral a taut multi layered psychological thriller Melanie Joosten author of Berlin Syndrome and Like Fire Hearted Suns Where did she come from And how far will she go Five years ago Kate s partner Max abandoned her for his pregnant lover The affair has long since crumbled but Kate has become fixated with Vee her replacement In a bid to find out what compelled Max to leave she moves to Bridgewell which stands in the shadow of St Catherine s Chapel where Vee is now raising her four year old daughter Iona Warm and trusting Vee is juggling work single parenthood and a controlling ex partner Max with whom she is still secretly sexually involved Glad of Kate s friendship she nevertheless wonders what has brought this glamorous but brittle woman to such a quiet corner of middle England When Vee meets charismatic artist Tom she is hopeful of establishing her first meaningful attachment since Max But Kate has her own plans Against a backdrop of ancient ghosts mystical forces and long buried tragedy Vee unwittingly yields to Kate s cruel agenda until the past and present collide with devastating consequences Catherine WheelFormat Review I ve never tried audiobooks before and was curious about how they d work for me At first this reminded me of the time I accidentally turned assistive voiceovers on on my phone The narrator was stuffy and dry with a thick English accent that got confusing at times I found myself rewinding to understand some of the unusual pronunciations croissant scones and pausing to look up words frock smock And OMG what was up with the constant kiss in correspondence It sounded SO weird There wasn t much characterization or emotion in the voices just a flat reading What s spoken word vs narrative Who is speaking It all sounded the same like assistive text compounded by the narrator using the same voice was used for all the MCs except the child for which the narrator put on a grating nasal whining voice This experiment has shown me that the audio book narrator stands between the author and the human reading the book and I m not sure I like that While I have problems with this book I m not sure how much of it was influenced by the narrator s delivery of it The delivery will make or break an audio book and it doesn t seem fair to judge the author s work by the narrator s performance I can understand why folks enjoy audiobooks if you re on a plane driving out for a walk cutting the grass but just sat on the couch not so great I m a much faster reader than this book was paced at and got frustrating by how slow progress felt I did find myself zoning out a bit but no or less than I do when reading which pleasantly surprised me By the end I had the speed on 1. Catherine wheel goring 5x which suited me a bit better I d consider giving audiobooks another go but this time I d make sure to pair my listening with an activity so I m not just sat there staring at the ceiling Story Review The story itself was exhausting It s interesting that this book has no genre tags on Goodreads or Storygraph I too am at a loss to accurately classify it it s too slow to be a thriller there s no mystery it s not crime Domestic drama maybe Idk Essentially this is a book where the reader is trapped in the heads of two tedious middle aged women who can t get over a sleaze ball of a man They re moaning about men fixated on babies and pregnancy it didn t redeem her character and I felt uncomfortable that at the end she was mooing over Monroe and making the same comments about Lindy that she d made about Valerie Have we learned nothing UGH. Book Catherine wheelchair Valerie was a bit sympathetic but largely because she came across as really young like early 20s and na ve I didn t understand her fixation on Tom or the events that concluded that whole thread From the listener s perspective she kinda does latch on really quickly and most of that relationship is in her head Valerie seemed a bit switched on that Kate and seems to have learned a fair bit from this whole fiasco though so there s that Ultimately I couldn t relate to either of these milquetoast women who wasted so much time and energy on these horrible men Writing style has a lot of similes and flowery descriptions that I became hyper aware of because of the audiobook format None of the characters felt like individuals to me I ve thought about it and I m not sure what a satisfactory ending would look like for a book like this I completed this book wondering what on earth it was trying to say and what the point was which isn t a great feeling This book will stand out as my first foray into the audio book world but knowing that I spent 10 hours on it irks me Maybe readers interested in motherhood pregnancy and men dating will have a better time with this I was privileged to have my request to listen to this audio book accepted through NetGalley Thanks Wavesound WF Howes Liz Evans In the excellent Catherine Wheel by Liz Evans August 7 Kate appears to be back on her feet after her breakup with the self serving and controlling Max Initially thrilled by his intense interest in and attraction to her she was demeaned by his philandering and gaslighting the slow corrode until he abruptly left her for another woman Vee Damaged by his manipulation still snared in the dependency he incubated Kate is obsessed with understanding what Vee had that she didn t Now split from Max Vee lives in a small country town with their small daughter Iona and Kate with a nebulous enmity relocates to get closer to them. Catherine wheel firework book In general I m not a huge fan of thrillers So many of them do unconvincing things with co incidence and behaviour which tip me straight out of the story It s the premise that lures me and this is a great one brilliantly executed with genuine conviction rage and insight Emotive issues are raised here but none of them sensationalised They are examined and laid bare and we absorb the truths of their consequences The impact of Max s behaviour extends beyond Kate Vee and Iona and we see it echoed in another man they both encounter. Catherine wheel want to touch you lyrics A few years ago I d have groaned at this being a contrived coincidence of thrillerdom but now I m wiser and aware of toxic masculinity and the lasting impact of men Liz Evans identified elsewhere as gods of their own universes Their problem lies with them believing in their own realities at the expense of others You re all the f king same aren t you You f king women yells a male character and Kate reflects It s not us women who are all the f king same It s heart breaking to observe Kate and Vee coming to terms with the realities of how they have been broken and how similar men observe that damage use it as a way in and inflict They lose faith in themselves can t trust anyone else keep quiet for fear of appearing weak and foolish and worst of all are pitched as women against each other not their abuser in their anger and despair Their resilience is hard won. Catherine wheel fripp Compelling and rousing this a bold and potent book Liz Evans This was really good I thought it was going to be just another spurned woman taking revenge on her ex s new girlfriend but there s many layers in this one Alternate narratives by two women Kate and Vee connected by their ex Max Kate has moved to the town of Bridgewell to follow Vee and get to know her she says to find what Max saw in her It s stalkerish definitely Vee has a young daughter by Max and still has sporadic sexual encounters with him She lacks confidence in herself and compares herself to Kate who seems confident and self contained There s much to this another manipulative man artist Tom North becomes involved with both women And there s the chapel on the hill based on St Catherine s Chapel in Abbotsbury which inspired PJ Harvey s song The Wind and an old Celtic site a cloughtie tree where ribbons or pieces of cloth are tied as a way to heal in this usually the death of a baby next to a spring and deep pool I really enjoyed the momentum of the story as both women came to realise that it was the men who were toxic An excellent read Liz Evans Catherine Wheel by Liz Evans was such an enjoyable read The story centres around two women Catherine Kate and Valerie Vee who are connected by a past boyfriend Max Kate inserts herself into Vee s life to find out why Max left her for Vee Vee and Max have a daughter but are no longer together however this doesn t stop Kate s obsession with Vee Catherine Wheel is an atmospheric unsettling and intriguing story full of revenge instability and tragedy This was a 5 star read for me Thanks to Better Reading the author and publisher for my preview copy Liz Evans Kate s partner Max left her to be with his pregnant lover Vee five years ago Kate has never gotten over it as much as she tries to move on. Catherine wheel intravenous So she decides to move to Bridgewell where Vee now lives rearing her child Iona a four year old and the daughter of Max With the affair well and truly finished between Vee and Max he does have access to Iona on some weekends which gives Vee a break. Music Catherine wheeling Vee is very trusting and meets an artist Tom who is an artist she has met through her work and is hopeful they could have a serious relationship She has also friended Kate and is glad to have her in her life Kate has also helped out with babysitting Iona but what is she up to This is the first novel I have read by Liz Evans and she took me on a journey to the dark side with very interesting multi faceted characters I had no idea where the story was going and a surprise ending was thrown into the mix of this psychological thriller A real page turner and a must read, Catherine wheel pub goring Thank you to Ultima Press and Better Reading for the advanced copy Liz Evans