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Dying to Meet You

Sarina Bowen

3.77 AVERAGE

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

๐Ÿฟ ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด: I started reading Sarina Bowen when she started writing thrillers and I will never turn back. I loved Dying to Meet You just as much as I loved The Five Year Lie, and Bowen is definitely an auto buy author for me now. This was one of my most anticipated books of the year and it lived up to every moment I spent waiting for it.

๐Ÿคฉ ๐šƒอ๐š‘อ๐šŽอ ๐™ฑอ๐šŽอ๐šœอ๐šอ ๐™ฑอ๐š’อ๐šอ๐šœอ: Though I was a little confused by the viewpoints in the beginning, I was instantly pulled into the storyline. I did love having the different viewpoints and I liked the way they all added something different to the storyline. There is a dash of family drama in the book, and I loved the way Bowen blended mystery, thrills, and emotions together. I also really liked most of the characters and even though Iโ€™m not a mom, I totally felt for Rowan trying to raise her daughter by herself. The twists at the end blew me off my feet and I think my jaw actually dropped at a couple of them.

๐ŸŽง ๐’œ๐“Š๐’น๐’พ๐‘œ๐’ท๐‘œ๐‘œ๐“€ ๐’ฉ๐’ถ๐“‡๐“‡๐’ถ๐“‰๐’พ๐‘œ๐“ƒ: We have a lovely audiobook thanks to the cast of Kathleen Early, Caitlin Kelly & Sarah Mollo-Christensen. I was extremely happy they didnโ€™t skimp on multiple narrators for multiple viewpoints, and I loved every single one of them! Narration was on point all the way through and enhanced the book in the best possible way.

๐Ÿ’ญ ๐˜Š๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต๐˜ด: The secrets unearthed in Dying to Meet You just get juicer and juicer as the story goes on and I was awed by the way Bowen tied everything together. The confusion I had with the viewpoints in the beginning ultimately dissipated and ended up making perfect sense when I got to the end. And the best part is, I never saw it coming.

Tอhอiอsอ Bอoอoอkอ iอnอ 5อ Eอmอoอjอiอโ€™sอ oอrอ Lอeอsอsอ: ๐Ÿงฑ๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿšจ

๐™ฑ๐š˜๐š˜๐š” ๐š๐šŠ๐š๐š’๐š—๐š: โญโญโญโญโญ
๐™ฐ๐šž๐š๐š’๐š˜๐š‹๐š˜๐š˜๐š” ๐š๐šŠ๐š๐š’๐š—๐š: โญโญโญโญโญ

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. 
medium-paced
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ejbayer's review

4.0
adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot

elliebeadle's review

3.0
mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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vohak's review

4.25
dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

This is the second of Bowen's Thrillers that I've read and I do really enjoy her style. The pace and plot of this is just right, as Rowan gets more in the weeds of the murder, the reader gets more and more pieces of the puzzle.

I honestly didn't know who the killer was until it was revealed, which is rare for me, and I did like the twists and turns of the story. 

I'm a sucker for a romance (sub) plot so I did enjoy Rowan's relationship with
Harrison
. I thought some of the explanations for
their past relationship issues
were maybe a little rushed/convenient but I was happy to see them together. 

Very interesting things to say about people/families with power snd money, especially in small towns, and what that means for the people around them who get taken advantage of without recourse!

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

listgirl's review

3.75
adventurous hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Harrison Jones, Rowan Gallagher, Natalie Gallagher.
I enjoyed this 2nd thriller from Sarina Bowen. It was a little slow-going at first. The pace picked up in the 2nd half of the book and became propulsive. I knew Natalie would be important in the story since there were chapters with her POV, and also because her and her mom Rowan shared each otherโ€™s locations on the phone. I enjoyed Harrisonโ€™s character and Iโ€™m glad for his happy ending with Rowan and Natalie as a family again. Iโ€™m not sure I liked having
Beatrice
as the villain, since it was somewhat from left field? I had guessed that the Coralee storyline was in the past with Marcus Wincott, but had no idea that the kid was
Beatrice
. Hank Wincott as a character was also not very compelling to me.