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FilmIntuition (33 KP) rated An Anonymous Girl in Books

Dec 22, 2018

Takes 150 Pages to Get Going

Wasting a clever set-up that feels like a cross between David Fincher's The Game and “the wrong man” motif that filled Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography, after strapped-for-cash twenty-something makeup artist Jessica Farris participates in a paid ethics study intended for someone else, An Anonymous Girl takes roughly 150 pages to get going.

Graduating from creepy to only mildly thrilling, predictably Jessica discovers that the study was the bait needed to lure her into a diabolical shrink’s carnival funhouse of lies and manipulation where very little is what it seems.

Needless to say, it's a disappointing return to the genre for Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen following their smash hit The Wife Between Us. And while An Anonymous Girl has the makings of a much greater psychological mystery, the authors don't invest nearly as much thought into the heroine as the book's villain, which means that the reader is usually three steps ahead of Jessica each time she gets a (fairly obvious) ticket to the clue bus.

Sticking it out due to mild curiosity as to how everything would turn out as well a desire to review An Anonymous Girl since St. Martin's Press, Bookish First, and NetGalley were kind enough to send me an arc, despite an intriguing idea, in the end, I think most readers will be tempted to put it down in favor of picking a different thriller up.

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The Cutting Room Floor

Dawn Klehr

7.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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DEZ: If my life were a movie, this would be the pivotal scene: a guy peering through his bedroom...

Tyrell

Coe Booth

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An astonishing new voice in teen literature, writing what is sure to be one of the most talked-about...

Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Tasting Never ( Tasting Never book 1) in Books

May 26, 2022

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Tasting Never ( Tasting Never book 1)
By C.M Stunich
⭐️⭐️⭐️
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"Never Ross wants to be loved.
It's that simple, but it's not that easy."

Never is a girl with a broken soul who doesn't date nice guys and can't seem to go to bed at night without crying herself to sleep. She doesn't need any complications in her life, especially not when they're attached to a man that could be her emotional twin.

Ty McCabe can't stand Never the first time he meets her. He's aware that the feeling's mutual and the two don't think they'll ever see each other again, but when fate takes a hand and puts them both in the wrong place at the wrong time, Ty and Never form a tentative friendship that opens the door on their dark sides and shows them what it's like to live in the light.

"Sometimes, the only way to go forward, is to take a few, careful steps back."

It was good a quick uncomplicated read. I’m not sure what else to say above it really while it was good nothing really stood out to take it higher than 3 stars.

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Destiny Binds (Timber Wolves #1) in Books

Sep 1, 2019

A decent read

Scout Donovan is a girl who believes in rules, logic, and her lifelong love of Charlie Hagan. Alex Cole believes in destiny, magic, and Scout. When Alex introduces Scout to the world of Shifters, men who change into wolves or coyotes during the full moon and Seers, women who can see your most private thoughts and emotions with a mere touch, the knowledge changes everything and everyone Scout thought she knew.

<strong>A decent read</strong>

This was Twilight without the vampires only better written. Don't get me wrong I like the twilight books but this just had the edge. It felt a little but rushed in places but for a first in the series it definitely made me want to continue reading.

Love triangle that ends in tragedy!

⭐⭐⭐

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Jeannie (40 KP) rated You in TV

Jan 29, 2019

You

2018 | Crime, Drama, Thriller

8.2

(69 Ratings)

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Started off well

Contains spoilers, click to show

I had high hopes for this as it started of very strong dispite my inability to over look gossip girl himself however i muddled through. Like i said first few episodes were very promising kept you in suspense however the futher in you get the more you stop guessing and start predicting. The end left me numb and the stpryline seemed flawed in the later episodes. I mean he left a jar of urine in the house of a woman he killed but somehow easily pinned the murders on his shrink who his girlfriend was cheating on him with. Also ypu hear alot a about Candance but never really know much then she shows up at the end ALIVE after the indication she was killed by Joe. Just so much wrong that the good parts cant be justified.