The Book:
Sun Damage by Sabine Durrant
Published August 1, 2023 by Harper Paperbacks
Date read: August 10, 2023
Sun Damage spoilers can be found below, but they’re hidden under a spoiler tag so you’re safe to keep scrolling if you’d just like to read my review.
The Characters:
Lulu
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The Plot (from Goodreads):
In a tiny village in Provence, nine guests arrive at a luxury holiday home. The visitors know each other well, or at least they think they do. The only stranger among them is Lulu, the young woman catering their stay. But Lulu is not exactly the woman on the video the guests thought they’d hired. Turns out Lulu has plenty to hide—and nowhere to run as the heat rises. In this seemingly idyllic getaway, under the scorching sun, loyalties will be tested, secrets exposed, and tensions pushed to the brink . . . Dripping in intrigue, Sun Damage is a glamorous, witty, and totally riveting story chock full of secrets, lies and . . . more lies.
Sun Damage Spoilers
The Ending:
In short, the real Lulu wasn’t dead. Sean was using her to pull a scam over on Ali, but then Ali disappeared and they couldn’t find her. They eventually caught up with her at Lulu’s summer job.
I hope these Sun Damage spoilers were helpful. Apologies that I don’t remember more!
The Review:
Thank you to Harper for this gifted copy!
I was really interested at the beginning when Ali was doing her grifting thing with Sean. I love reading about scammers working their scams! This part of the book was so interesting, where the reader can’t quite tell who they’re supposed to be rooting for or what’s going on. I loved the summertime seaside French setting.
Things got slow once Ali took over Lulu’s life, though. The middle 50% was her working at some villa with a rich family, and nothing happened for a really long time besides petty family drama. Then the ending felt very abrupt–the outstanding issues were resolved, but everything was magically wrapped up effortlessly when things had all been a big mess for Ali.
Overall, it was a good beachside summer popcorn book, but I wasn’t quite satisfied with the ending.
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