Today I’m joining the blog tour for The Token. My review is written with thanks to Tracy Fenton for inviting me on the tour and to the publisher for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

Seven beneficiaries. Seven people who stood to gain a huge amount of money, for a reason none of them yet understood.

Seven strangers receive a mysterious note informing them of their impending inheritance of billionaire Logan Quick’s fortune. They each receive a token and soon embark on a doomed cruise where they will have to conquer their own demons, and each other, for a chance at the money.

But someone on this boat has something to hide.

Can the survivors work out the truth… or are they destined to drown?

Review:

I’ve read a few novels by Sharon Bolton now and I’ve loved them, so I was really looking forward to getting stuck into The Token and boy, does it start with a bang! The prologue is entitled “Day Fourteen”. It’s tense and full of drama and I really wanted to know what had happened in the previous thirteen days to lead to this point. It was in the back of my mind the whole time as I was reading and the intrigue had me hooked!

The main body of the story is quite slow burning as Sharon Bolton spends quite a lot of time building up the seven central characters – the recipients of the tokens. She does a wonderful job doing so and I felt like I knew them really well by the time we reached day fourteen. They all have very different backgrounds and circumstances so I was intrigued by how they could be linked to each other. 

The ending of The Token is really explosive. Sharon Bolton’s writing is fast paced and the sense of danger is palpable so I was reading from the edge of my seat! I’m not really sure how I expected the story to conclude but there are definitely some surprises which I really enjoyed.

This novel is highly recommended by me and I can’t wait to see what Sharon Bolton does next!

The Token is available from Amazon.

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