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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
This book completely surprised me!
I listened to this book on Libro.fm and in the beginning I was bugged to be go back and forth between the Ana and Vanessa's points of view, but once they finally came together I was obsessed! I love the team up in the end to take down the scum bag that is Lachlan, or Michael, or Bryan (who really knows).
This one was fun!
I listened to this book on Libro.fm and in the beginning I was bugged to be go back and forth between the Ana and Vanessa's points of view, but once they finally came together I was obsessed! I love the team up in the end to take down the scum bag that is Lachlan, or Michael, or Bryan (who really knows).
This one was fun!
This book was so much fun to read. It did drag some in the middle, but boy was the last 25% worth it.
I'm irritated I wasted so much time on this one. Predictable plot. Boring characters.
This was a hard book to put down. It was was one that I wanted to keep reading, so many twists. I'm not sure the ending was fitting but it guess it works.
"We all build our own delusions and then live inside them, constructing walls to conveniently hide the things we don't want to see. [...] Maybe it's just that the world we live in now makes it so hard to separate truth from image and dream."
What do a reluctant con artist and a heiress have in common?
Their own shallow understanding of the world and people around them.
This was a heist that I didn't expect: full of history, depth, justified in a sick kind of way yet the full picture was always just a little hazy in the beginning. Both narrators Nina Ross and Vanessa Liebling were well written and their contrasting childhoods and eventual lifestyles helped propel the story into a crazy ride - it's one of those books where you can't decide who's right and who's wrong the longer it goes on; instead you gain a weird kind of kinship with both characters no matter where on the socio-economic scale you fall on. They're just human after all. They're all just trying to make a way for themselves and those closest to them - even if it means risking everything in the process.
I originally bought this book simply because the cover was pretty but I ended up being flabbergasted at the revelations and understanding of events that unfolded - I kid you not, I was on my knees at work and trying not to gasp too loudly the longer this book went on and the more was revealed. I couldn't put the book down. so uh yeah, totally would recommend this book. Its nothing like you'd expect, but I mean that in the best way possible.
What do a reluctant con artist and a heiress have in common?
Their own shallow understanding of the world and people around them.
This was a heist that I didn't expect: full of history, depth, justified in a sick kind of way yet the full picture was always just a little hazy in the beginning. Both narrators Nina Ross and Vanessa Liebling were well written and their contrasting childhoods and eventual lifestyles helped propel the story into a crazy ride - it's one of those books where you can't decide who's right and who's wrong the longer it goes on; instead you gain a weird kind of kinship with both characters no matter where on the socio-economic scale you fall on. They're just human after all. They're all just trying to make a way for themselves and those closest to them - even if it means risking everything in the process.
I originally bought this book simply because the cover was pretty but I ended up being flabbergasted at the revelations and understanding of events that unfolded - I kid you not, I was on my knees at work and trying not to gasp too loudly the longer this book went on and the more was revealed. I couldn't put the book down. so uh yeah, totally would recommend this book. Its nothing like you'd expect, but I mean that in the best way possible.
This back and forth narrative of silver spoon fed Vanessa and cunning Nina helps you piece together this tangled web of family, greedy, and privilege. During certain parts of the book, you have to re-live something you already read which can make this feel like it drags a little. BUT, I do think the author had a lot of purpose in this so readers could learn something different about Vanessa and Nina. This one is more family secret-mystery, but certainly has a good twist or two tossed in to keep things interesting.
An enjoyable, if overly long, long con of a thriller. It had a slow start, but the second half was fun.
I’ll round up to a 4. Another book of Lying Liars Who Lie. A grifter couple and a rich chick and they’re all playing each other. Even when they think they know what the others are doing, they only know the half of it. Pretty great, but long. Definitely felt overstuffed, but also I have a short attention span. Could be me. In the end, the juice was worth the squeeze. I mean, there was a LOT of deception here. Very fun.
The good: Snappy, easy read. Few twists I didn't see coming. Slight gothic mansion elements. A sensitive portrayal of mental illness, neither sensationalizing nor minimizing.
The bad: No way this should have been nearly 500 pages. Half that would have been better. The themes and morals - social media "influencing" being a form of con artistry, societal struggles between haves and have-nots, we always think we're the victim and never the villain - would have been far more interesting if the author didn't thunk us over the head with them repeatedly and spell them out in the text verbatim. Also the ending suddenly veered off into TV drama territory, which makes sense now that I see Nicole Kidman is producing a series based on the book for Amazon.
Diverting but flawed read.
The bad: No way this should have been nearly 500 pages. Half that would have been better. The themes and morals - social media "influencing" being a form of con artistry, societal struggles between haves and have-nots, we always think we're the victim and never the villain - would have been far more interesting if the author didn't thunk us over the head with them repeatedly and spell them out in the text verbatim. Also the ending suddenly veered off into TV drama territory, which makes sense now that I see Nicole Kidman is producing a series based on the book for Amazon.
Diverting but flawed read.
I kind of...loved this 🫢 what can I say it had literally everything I like!! It's hard to comment too much without spoilers but I loved watching everything unravel and I thought the shifting perspectives were great and paced well - I never felt like I was in one person's head too long. There were also some twists in there that well and truly gagged me. I loved how you were never sure who to root for or empathize with (but by the end I was pretty solid!) I also think this would make a super fun miniseries or something if adapted well. Just tons of fun and definitely recommended for anyone who likes stories about girls stealing from rich people :-)