This novel has the style and tone of the early Roman Polanski films. In fact it wouldn't look out of place on Alfred Hitchcock's C.V. The author's screenwriting experience has certainly paid off in this debut novel.
The story unfolds a few years in the future in a dark and claustrophobic Europe. Events unfold at a leisurely pace allowing each act of violence to have maximum impact. The characters all seem to exist in a lonely state of near isolation. Tragedy, terror, and deceit must happen before friendship and love can flourish. A tour de force of originality and literary integrity. Tense and evocative.

When Marta tries to escape from her abusive boyfriend and move on with someone new, a chain of events are started which will change the lives of everyone involved forever.

I didn't enjoy this one unfortunately. It was very slow moving, it didn't really have any twists or anything that kept me gripped. This just wasn't a book for me.

The writing was good, the story was interwsting and the characters were well developed. An enjoyable read.

Marta is 32 in single, she loves her job and the work she does with the local sports club. She also loves spending time with her rich boyfriend, Arpod or at least she did until one night while looking at pictures of the nighttime meds she runs across ones of a local woman who is missing. When her boyfriend tells her she must keep a secret and that secret is he works for the police and think this woman is involved in sex trafficking she doesn’t know if she believes him when he showed up at her apartment unannounced and drunk she really starts to doubt her fondness for him but when she tries to break it off her real trouble begins. This book was so good that it one part although I was laying in my bed listening I had to sit up and wait till it was over because my heart was palpitating so much. She has a lot to protect her mom and aunt who are elderly in the widow with the 15-year-old daughter everything she holes dear let’s threaten from the insanity of her ex and OMG he is insane. This book was given to me by NetGalley and the author but I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review but all opinions are definitely my own.

Europia
by Anthony Etherington
My Thanks to NetGalley, The Book Guild, and Anthony Etherington for the advance to review.
I do not know how to really rate this one. It is a mystery set in the future. The Language had me
trying to understand some. This is my fault, not the writer. I am just not good with the new wroding.
So, I will give it a solid 4 stars.