Stop At Nothing by Tammy Cohen

Author : Tammy Cohen
Title : Stop At Nothing
Pages : 384
Publisher : Transworld
Publication date : July 18, 2019

| ABOUT THE BOOK |

A mother’s job is to keep her children safe.

Tess has always tried to be a good mother. Of course, there are things she wishes she’d done differently, but doesn’t everyone feel that way?

Then Emma, her youngest, is attacked on her way home from a party, plunging them into a living nightmare which only gets worse when the man responsible is set free.

But what if she fails?

So when Tess sees the attacker in the street near their home, she is forced to take matters into her own hands. But blinded by her need to protect her daughter at any cost, might she end up putting her family in even greater danger?

There’s nothing she wouldn’t do to make it right …

| MY THOUGHTS |

I always get excited when a new Tammy Cohen pops up and this time was no different. The book description promised a gripping story and that’s exactly what it is although it didn’t at all go the way I thought it would.

Tess’s teenage daughter, Emma, is the victim of an attack. Rocked to the core, things only get worse when her attacker is released, free to roam the streets. Like any mother, this does not sit well with Tessa but her attempts to somehow see justice served don’t go so well.

Stop At Nothing deals with a mother failing to keep her children safe and stopping at nothing to try and protect them from further harm in future. But consumed by guilt and struggling with insomnia, is Tessa thinking straight or is she becoming paranoid? While her actions are often completely understandable, I did sometimes have the urge to yell at her, to ask her to stop and think.

My suspicious nature rather quickly realised what was going on but I couldn’t at all think of why or how it would possibly end. Told through Tessa’s eyes, there are some moments when the reader is faced with some chapters written by an unknown character and I had a heck of a time trying to figure out who was writing those or how they even fit into everything.

Tammy Cohen’s books always make for compulsive reading, one of those where you look up from the page and hours have gone by. While this may not be my favourite by her, I did thoroughly enjoy it and I absolutely devoured it. This story about a mother’s love is gripping, well-paced and pretty cleverly done. I look forward to whatever Tammy Cohen comes up with next.

My thanks to the publisher for the review copy!

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