I don’t think I’m right for this book.
I’m not a lover of “mobby” kind of reads and it never really gave any indication that is was going to be anything other than maybe a physiological thriller/domestic noir kind of book, so it threw me a bit.

It’s writing was OK, had a storyline.
But nothing I could relate to or feel like I had enjoyed it.

Might be a case of it’s me not you?

A lot of people were saying this was too much but fortunately its exactly what I like. I can why people were saying it as there were parts that made me shudder, but it made the book what it is. The plot did however fall a little flat a times.

Did not finish this book, it was a bit too violent or extreme to me.

Why oh why did it take me so long to read this book? It was such a fast-paced rollercoaster of a read that I could hardly bear to put it down. It may be my first Tim Adler book but it certainly won't be my last.

Paul and his wife, Kate, are visiting Albania in order to attend his uncle's funeral. I had read the blurb but I still let out an involuntary gasp of shock as Paul jumped off the hotel balcony. Seconds before this happened his wife, Kate, had taken a photo of him and Paul had promised that they'd always be together. Why would he say that then commit suicide? When Kate examines the photo more carefully, she notices a face in the background on her hotel balcony. Who is he and what does he have to do with Paul's death?

Kate starts to ask questions about Paul's death and has an even closer look at her photographs where she notices one of her neighbours. What on earth is her neighbour doing in Albania? When she confronts him, her neighbour confirms that he was in Albania and he did see someone jump from the 6th floor balcony of the hotel that Kate and Paul were staying in. Kate and Paul, however, were staying on the 7th floor...

Understandably, Kate is struggling to cope with Paul's desk so she turns to grief counselling and meets a man called John Priest - a man whose face also appeared in her Albanian photographs. Who is he? What's going on? My mind was in a complete whirl as I tried to work out what was going on but nothing could have prepared me for the journey that this book took me on.

A real page-turner of a read, Hold Still will have you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.

I chose to read an ARC and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.

Thank you for the opportunity to review this publication.