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A review by bookstobarbellsbabe
Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
4.0
I saw this cover all over Bookstagram and thought it looked really interesting and after seeing that a lot of my fellow book friends loved it, I decided to order it and read it myself. I have never read any of Janelle Brown's work, but I promise you, this book won't be my last.
"Pretty Things" follows 2 very unlikely women, Nina, the con artist and Vanessa, the wealthy Instagram famous IT girl that comes from old money. I must say, this novel was intense.
Starting off the novel, we meet Nina as she's in the middle of one of her cons. She's going to get over on a rich Russian billionaire. At first, I kind of got J.Lo's "Hustlers" vibes, ,but oh no. Nina does way more than drug you and steal your money. She seeks out your antiques and expensive furniture to sell months later on the Black Market.
Nina needs money , and lot of it to pay for her mothers cancer treatments . She soon learns of Vanessa Liebling, the Instagram IT girl that she has been following who recently left NYC to stay at her old family estate of Stonehaven in Tahoe.
You know those gorgeous girls on Instagram who wear the gorgeous clothes and perfect bodies and have the fabulous friends and are always going on the exotic trips? That's Vanessa. You know the ones I'm talking about. The ones who lives look perfect. The one whose lives you envy and think that if you just had their money, your life could be as easy and carefree as theirs? Yea, that's the one.
Only Vanessa hasn't been posting much of the glamourous lifestyle and more of old, dingy mansion that she has been staying at. Her family's Tahoe estate of Stonehaven.
Nina and her boyfriend , Lachlan go and befriend Vanessa and “rent” out her cabin for a few day. Only they go as “Ashley and Michael” Here's the catch though. Ashley and Michael are really Nina and Lachlan. What goes on next will start blowing your mind and like I said earlier, the slow burn to get here is totally definitely worth the wait.
I loved this ending and I loved this book. It kept me turning the pages faster and faster. It definitely didn't turn out the way I thought it would. Any of the turns that I thought were going to happen came in different ways that I couldn't even imagine. I definitely recommend this book to anyone.
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"Pretty Things" follows 2 very unlikely women, Nina, the con artist and Vanessa, the wealthy Instagram famous IT girl that comes from old money. I must say, this novel was intense.
Starting off the novel, we meet Nina as she's in the middle of one of her cons. She's going to get over on a rich Russian billionaire. At first, I kind of got J.Lo's "Hustlers" vibes, ,but oh no. Nina does way more than drug you and steal your money. She seeks out your antiques and expensive furniture to sell months later on the Black Market.
Nina needs money , and lot of it to pay for her mothers cancer treatments . She soon learns of Vanessa Liebling, the Instagram IT girl that she has been following who recently left NYC to stay at her old family estate of Stonehaven in Tahoe.
You know those gorgeous girls on Instagram who wear the gorgeous clothes and perfect bodies and have the fabulous friends and are always going on the exotic trips? That's Vanessa. You know the ones I'm talking about. The ones who lives look perfect. The one whose lives you envy and think that if you just had their money, your life could be as easy and carefree as theirs? Yea, that's the one.
Only Vanessa hasn't been posting much of the glamourous lifestyle and more of old, dingy mansion that she has been staying at. Her family's Tahoe estate of Stonehaven.
Nina and her boyfriend , Lachlan go and befriend Vanessa and “rent” out her cabin for a few day. Only they go as “Ashley and Michael” Here's the catch though. Ashley and Michael are really Nina and Lachlan. What goes on next will start blowing your mind and like I said earlier, the slow burn to get here is totally definitely worth the wait.
I loved this ending and I loved this book. It kept me turning the pages faster and faster. It definitely didn't turn out the way I thought it would. Any of the turns that I thought were going to happen came in different ways that I couldn't even imagine. I definitely recommend this book to anyone.
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