A review by bookbratmn
Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand

3.0

good, frothy, summer beach-read. I would say it was somewhat predictable and formulaic but that's what makes it a 'good, frothy, summer beach-read', right? I like that it was 'lifted' from the Bernie Madoff scandal and it gave a nice examination of what his wife might have been going through - the biggest take-away being that people hear about a scandal and make assumptions about the people involved. So in the Madoff scandal, everyone who didn't actually 'know' Mrs. Madoff but had heard about the ponzi scheme thought they 'knew' who and what she was and what she must have been thinking all those years - but they really didn't - they made assumptions about her and her life (for better or worse - probably mostly worse). The other interesting, and related point, is that people think they know the people they love - like because they've been together for so long or are 'soul mates' that they have full knowledge of the partner, when, in reality, everyone has that part of themselves that they might not show to anyone - things that make you go hmmmmm!