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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
I'm not sure it was entirely satisfying as a revenge fantasy, but it was a lot of fun, and it had a good arc, just not a good revenge arc.
It started well enough but ended up being fairly disappointed. The whole "revenge" aspect was more r/pettyrevenge than r/prorevenge.
⭐️⭐️⭐️— Pretty Revenge by Emily Liebert (Out July 2)
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Thank you to Gallery and Netgalley for a free copy of this book!
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Kerri, now Olivia, wants revenge of Jordan, now Jordana. After the terrible wreckage jordana left behind years ago, Olivia decides to infiltrate her life. She quickly gets herself hired as Jordana’s assistant at her wedding planning company. From there, Olivia slowly starts to sabotage Jordana.
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What I loved: I loved the wedding planning business aspect. Seeing that and the positive interactions our two characters were having was fun to read. The writing style was my type of writing and I enjoyed the plot of the book.
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What I didn’t: Olivia’s determination seemed high, but her actions were weak. She didn’t really pull too many punches and the ones she causes little to no disruption. Even the “big” one was not really big for Jordana. The ending was a bit nice.
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Thank you to Gallery and Netgalley for a free copy of this book!
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Kerri, now Olivia, wants revenge of Jordan, now Jordana. After the terrible wreckage jordana left behind years ago, Olivia decides to infiltrate her life. She quickly gets herself hired as Jordana’s assistant at her wedding planning company. From there, Olivia slowly starts to sabotage Jordana.
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What I loved: I loved the wedding planning business aspect. Seeing that and the positive interactions our two characters were having was fun to read. The writing style was my type of writing and I enjoyed the plot of the book.
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What I didn’t: Olivia’s determination seemed high, but her actions were weak. She didn’t really pull too many punches and the ones she causes little to no disruption. Even the “big” one was not really big for Jordana. The ending was a bit nice.
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I received this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!
CW: adultery, terminally ill parent, child abuse, domestic violence, and deaths of family members
What a damn disappointment.
I was so into this book for, about 60-70%. Then I started seeing the writing on the wall and that it wasn’t actually going to be that good. But, let me start to explain why after a brief description of the books and characters.
Kerrie O’Malley has just lost her job and is in a relationship she doesn’t want to be in anymore. Her parents died when she was young and her grandmother, who raised her, died in some way. Then, there’s Jordana Pierson. Everything about her seems perfect, but she’s married to an unfaithful man who doesn’t like the wedding planning company that she throws herself into.
But, Kerrie knows Jordana. Because Jordana did something horrible to her a long time ago. Now, it’s time for Kerrie to take her revenge.
So, Kerrie gets herself set up as Jordana’s assistant at the business. And she starts picking away at things to ruin what Jordana has.
Then the other stuff comes into the book that I wasn’t a fan of.
Kerrie kind of starts a relationship with some guy who’s planning a wedding. Kind of because the romance never was that important to the plot or story. There’s another secondary plot that it gets tied up in, though. Kerrie has a neighbor who was once an investigative journalist but isn’t working like that now because she had a kid. But, the woman wants to blow the lid off of some guy’s bad deeds. Which happens to be the future father-in-law to the man. Then Kerrie decides to help her. For no reason.
And then there’s Jordana. The unfaithful husband didn’t add much to the story except, maybe, understand her drive to succeed. She also has a very messy relationship with her parents that gets very explored in the book. For no reason, tbh.
While these little journeys might seem interesting and fun, the book is only 320 pages. The actual plot of the revenge Kerrie wants to get on Jordana is forgotten for a very long time. It just kind of happens in little things, but the attention of the book is more put on the things that I explained above. None of which feature in the description of the book.
Look, I could care less about Kerrie and her infatuation. (I did care less, tbh. Hardcore skimmed those sections when I saw they were coming.) The plot to destroy the random guy? Also not what I was there for. Jordana’s stuff with her family? I found that more interesting, but, again, wasn’t what I wanted from the read.
The book turned out to be deeply unsatisfying for me. I wanted a dark thriller with two conniving women pitted against each other, battling for whatever the fuck it was. That’s what I wanted to read about. In the end, the book was very rushed when it got to the revenge Kerrie wanted on Jordana. It was very anticlimactic when we finally got to the reveal about different things.
The book lost itself completely. I didn’t find it twisty or bursting with suspense like the description says. It was a completely unsatisfying read for me, one that I wouldn’t recommend as a thriller.
I received this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!
CW: adultery, terminally ill parent, child abuse, domestic violence, and deaths of family members
What a damn disappointment.
I was so into this book for, about 60-70%. Then I started seeing the writing on the wall and that it wasn’t actually going to be that good. But, let me start to explain why after a brief description of the books and characters.
Kerrie O’Malley has just lost her job and is in a relationship she doesn’t want to be in anymore. Her parents died when she was young and her grandmother, who raised her, died in some way. Then, there’s Jordana Pierson. Everything about her seems perfect, but she’s married to an unfaithful man who doesn’t like the wedding planning company that she throws herself into.
But, Kerrie knows Jordana. Because Jordana did something horrible to her a long time ago. Now, it’s time for Kerrie to take her revenge.
So, Kerrie gets herself set up as Jordana’s assistant at the business. And she starts picking away at things to ruin what Jordana has.
Then the other stuff comes into the book that I wasn’t a fan of.
Kerrie kind of starts a relationship with some guy who’s planning a wedding. Kind of because the romance never was that important to the plot or story. There’s another secondary plot that it gets tied up in, though. Kerrie has a neighbor who was once an investigative journalist but isn’t working like that now because she had a kid. But, the woman wants to blow the lid off of some guy’s bad deeds. Which happens to be the future father-in-law to the man. Then Kerrie decides to help her. For no reason.
And then there’s Jordana. The unfaithful husband didn’t add much to the story except, maybe, understand her drive to succeed. She also has a very messy relationship with her parents that gets very explored in the book. For no reason, tbh.
While these little journeys might seem interesting and fun, the book is only 320 pages. The actual plot of the revenge Kerrie wants to get on Jordana is forgotten for a very long time. It just kind of happens in little things, but the attention of the book is more put on the things that I explained above. None of which feature in the description of the book.
Look, I could care less about Kerrie and her infatuation. (I did care less, tbh. Hardcore skimmed those sections when I saw they were coming.) The plot to destroy the random guy? Also not what I was there for. Jordana’s stuff with her family? I found that more interesting, but, again, wasn’t what I wanted from the read.
The book turned out to be deeply unsatisfying for me. I wanted a dark thriller with two conniving women pitted against each other, battling for whatever the fuck it was. That’s what I wanted to read about. In the end, the book was very rushed when it got to the revenge Kerrie wanted on Jordana. It was very anticlimactic when we finally got to the reveal about different things.
The book lost itself completely. I didn’t find it twisty or bursting with suspense like the description says. It was a completely unsatisfying read for me, one that I wouldn’t recommend as a thriller.
*I received a free copy of Pretty Revenge from Gallery Books via Edelweiss. This has in no way influenced my review which is honest and unbiased.*
3.5 stars
Pretty Revenge has a lot of very interesting aspects going for it! And one of those aspects is that we get chapters from either Jordana’s or Kerrie’s point of view. They both feel like they have a very difficult life, and have had to make some hard choices. However, Kerrie is out for revenge. Because when she was only 12 years old, Jordana took everything from her.
I loved that even as the characters were rather careful in their interactions in the beginning, they actually grew to love and respect each other. And the way Kerrie changed her appearance so that she could get close to Jordana made me root for her.
At the same time, while I could understand her thirst for revenge, I also kind of felt like it would have been better for her to just leave the past in the past.
As Kerrie forged new relationships, and really grew into herself, I liked a lot about her. Her drive, her intelligence, her street-smarts, and her organisation skills were excellent. And she was very methodological in everything she did.
Overall, Pretty Revenge is a good story, and I stayed up until 1 am to finish reading. There was a lot going on, and I really needed to know how it would all end.
3.5 stars
Pretty Revenge has a lot of very interesting aspects going for it! And one of those aspects is that we get chapters from either Jordana’s or Kerrie’s point of view. They both feel like they have a very difficult life, and have had to make some hard choices. However, Kerrie is out for revenge. Because when she was only 12 years old, Jordana took everything from her.
I loved that even as the characters were rather careful in their interactions in the beginning, they actually grew to love and respect each other. And the way Kerrie changed her appearance so that she could get close to Jordana made me root for her.
At the same time, while I could understand her thirst for revenge, I also kind of felt like it would have been better for her to just leave the past in the past.
As Kerrie forged new relationships, and really grew into herself, I liked a lot about her. Her drive, her intelligence, her street-smarts, and her organisation skills were excellent. And she was very methodological in everything she did.
Overall, Pretty Revenge is a good story, and I stayed up until 1 am to finish reading. There was a lot going on, and I really needed to know how it would all end.