Just Two Weeks is the sort of book that I love! Who doesn't love a good thriller? The main character Jo, decides to go on a two week holiday to Sri Lanka without her partner Mark. In the beginning I found this quite a strange thing to do but as the story progresses we gain a little bit of understanding of Mark's motives / reasons for not going. Jo initially appears to be quite a weak woman but I couldn't help feel that despite her sometimes irrational behaviour, it actually takes guts to travel alone! Jo is actually a mixture of contradictions if that makes sense. Just when the reader thinks they fully understand her, she does something that surprises.

 

When Jo finds herself in a foreign land with no money or passport, she is afraid, alone, confused and uncertain of who she can trust. Things don't get much better when she gets back home and is stalked by a woman she met on holiday. Jo becomes suspicious of everyone, not knowing who to trust. Can she even trust her own mind?

 

Amanda Sington-Williams has written a real psychological thriller that will get the pulse going. I noted the use of the weather as being symbolic to the tumultuous mixture of emotions that Jo felt in certain situations and thought it was very clever. There were times during the story that I felt myself almost as tense as Jo, wondering what was going to happen next. Whilst reading the book I was reminded of the style of some of Hitchcock's movies and the creeping anxiety and suspense that they produced and felt myself feel the same way while reading this book. It is an excellent book that will have you gripped right from the beginning and will leave you gob-smacked right at the end. Highly recommended read. I'd also recommend lots of snacks beside you while you are reading because you won't want to put the book down to go make some food! Really enjoyed this book.