Behind Closed Doors - B.A. Paris

Title: Behind Closed Doors
Author: B.A. Paris
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 351
Date read: November, 2016

The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?

Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do.

You'd like to get to know Grace better.

But it's difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart.

Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn't work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. And why there are bars on one of the bedroom windows.

Sometimes, the perfect marriage is the perfect lie.


This is one of those books that's almost impossible to rate. It was ridiculously well-written, and I could neither put it down, nor stop thinking about it when I finally did. I read it in two days flat.

At the same time, it was incredibly disturbing. Parts of it made me physically sick to my stomach, others I had to skim through, as I couldn't handle reading them. At one point I seriously considered just leaving it, as it made me feel so awful to read.

But I had to know what happened.

Fortunately it improved. Reading about a person being broken is never fun. Reading about a broken person learning how to fight back immensely more satisfying. I wouldn't go as far as to say I enjoyed it, and I certainly cannot recommend it in good faith, but I'm glad I stuck with it, and was happier with the ending than I'd expected to be.