Mags doesn’t believe her brother’s fall was an accident. In that forty-foot stairwell, he didn’t just slip over the edge. But there is only one witness, Jody, the girlfriend grieving at his bedside. Which is another story Mags doesn’t believe.Because Jody likes telling stories, and this may be her most twisted one yet. As Mags begins to unearth the secrets hidden in her brother’s wake, she finds … her brother’s wake, she finds she isn’t just looking for the truth. For Mags, this is more than a simple tragedy. This is an opportunity for revenge.
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The writing held my interest. The characters were fleshed out. The novel had an air of verisimilitude that I appreciated. Many of the images from the book have stuck with me.
I liked the book. It had different characters than I am used to so that was nice.
When I first started reading this book, it was all over the place and I was a little confused by who was who and what was happening. Then I thought this isn’t the book for me. However I was given this book by Net Gallery for my opinion and I felt I owed it to them to continue. There’s a few characters, Abe, Jody, Mira, Mags, and Loran, tenants of the building and then some people from everybody’s past. This book is creepy and weird but I’m glad I stuck with it because it did eventually start making sense and by then I was hooked and read until I finished at 4 this morning. I can’t believe these people lived in such a dangerous area. These people went out at night ummm why? and are you crazy? So stick with this book and you will not believe the ending.
Thank you Net Gallery and Sourcebooks Landmark for this kindle digital copy.
I thought this started a little slow but gained momentum pretty quickly. Once I got into it, I really wanted to find out what happened.
Pretty engaging with well developed characters. The multiple first person idiom is getting a little old though.
The Girlfriend is dark and twisted, and there is certainly a mystery to solve. Those things alone should’ve made this one right up my alley, and it does have its moments, but I finished it with mixed feelings. The story starts out right in the middle of action and then veers off from there to Abe being in a coma and Mags trying to distinguish fact from fiction. We do get back to the events from the beginning and they do tie in, but it takes a while. From this point on, we get multiple points of view and lots of flashbacks, which are at times, quite difficult to read. I did have a problem with the flashbacks at first and found myself flipping back to the beginning of chapters to be sure of who was doing the telling. In all honesty, I found little difference in the voices of young Mags and young Jody. My biggest problem with this book was that after the initial action, the story moves along at a very slow pace and is loaded with filler. Several times, things that could’ve easily been summed up in a paragraph took pages. I appreciate setting a scene, but too much detail is as bad as too little, especially when any hint of actual answers isn’t part of all that detail. At that point, it just muddies the waters and makes for more convoluted mess than gripping thriller, which does little more than pull the reader out of the story. Fortunately, the story does pick up, but not until the last fifteen percent or so. I will say that I did like the conclusion, but with so much filler, along with the back and forth of the various characters, the getting there often felt more like a chore than enjoyment of what could’ve been a gritty and gripping thriller.