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The Appeal by Janice Hallett

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lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

5.0

This is such a unique experience and i love it!!! It is written entirely in emails, texts, transcripts, and articles. At some point it made me think "do people really write this much emails for non work stuff??" but most of the time this type of story telling works here. It can be frustrating though when you really want to slap a character :) (sorry i just want to see somebody shake this character's shoulders in real life!! If you've read it, you know who they are. This character is quite a masterpiece though, because they felt really really real. I've known some people that has their traits, though might not be as chronic as portrayed in this book.) It's even quite triggering for me, and the beginning of the book was quite full of this character i felt sick.

Around half of the book things really start to get into action and I couldn't stop reading. Not that it wasn't interesting before, but the pace definitely picked up. If you love mystery and figuring out whodunnit, this book is really fun, because it really makes the readers feel involved and it laid out the stuff you can analyze, without it being too easy or too convoluted. I guessed 2 things right i'm so proud of myself lol
that 1) lauren is not real and that 2) poppy is not sick at all. And I did realized that the only person Issy would protect to that extent is James. But i'm always open to who the killer(s) are whenever i read books like this, and there wasn't any evidence, so i didn't exactly guessed that.
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