Reading Trust Her is difficult. It’s riveting, scary, horrifying. You put down the book, unable to read another word, and then pick it up again almost instantly. Berry is a past-master at ratcheting up tension.
By so delicately humanizing the complex scope of Ireland’s troubled history, Berry masterfully balances the lightning pace of a sweat-inducing thriller with the contemplative satisfaction of a cerebral analysis of uncertain family dynamics.
Berry’s crisp prose, artful plotting and short chapters make for another thrilling read ... It’s a cat-and-mouse game of the best kind, interspersing plenty of high-octane, frightening moments with Tessa’s quotidian joys, concerns and exhaustion as a single mother to 4-year-old Finn.
Berry once again provides an engaging character in Tessa ... The author continues to interrogate the lasting, and live, impact of centuries of colonialism and violence on contemporary lives.
Harrowing ... Though some of the hairpin twists are less convincing than others... Berry’s moving depiction of a fractured family whose love runs as deep as its rifts should please existing series fans and win her new ones.
