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A review by iris_ymra
Friend Request by Laura Marshall
4.0
Back in 1989 Louise was just a teenage girl trying to fit into the popular crowd. She had always felt the need to do something, to be accepted. To an extent Louise dared herself to do something she then regretted later for 27 years -- and was thinking that the death of Maria Weston was her fault all the time.
Had been living with such guilt all her life added with a friend request she received from Maria had made her life a living misery, of paranoia and danger -- not to mention that the only person whom she always found comfort from was no longer with her after their divorce -- Sam Parker.
Little did she know that the source of comfort she was getting from -- Sam -- the man she truly loved, will turn into knowing a gruesome fact of whatever it was that had happened 27 years ago -- of what had really happened to Maria Weston.
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Friend Request has its way of making me can't stop reading the book -- though it's not really that trilling. But it's how the book bore my curiosity into bottom deep, that makes me turning pages from one to one until the end. The twist and turn in this book were definitely beyond of what I had expected of how, who, and what actually had happened and about to happen.
The plot for me, was definitely moving upwards all the way till it met its peak and to the end. Though I was also accompanied with a range of emotion -- annoyed, anger -- through the story, kind of hating Louise too.
For me Louise always finds -- anything, anyone -- to be the reason of anything she did/does. She's this type of person who let everyone owns her, but she herself. It's not a good thing, it appears quiet annoying to me -- like she's indirectly shifting any blame to anyone but her. Because she let whatever she had done to have a reason behind it -- Sophie, Sam and Henry -- like she can reason it and makes it as if whatever happened back then was because she was once just this one teenager that messed up her life because someone took advantage on it, and her effort in covering what she did is because that's her responsibility as a mother to Henry, to make sure him growing up pure and innocently not tainted by his mother long time mistake. Well, maybe that's just how I see it.
Had been living with such guilt all her life added with a friend request she received from Maria had made her life a living misery, of paranoia and danger -- not to mention that the only person whom she always found comfort from was no longer with her after their divorce -- Sam Parker.
Little did she know that the source of comfort she was getting from -- Sam -- the man she truly loved, will turn into knowing a gruesome fact of whatever it was that had happened 27 years ago -- of what had really happened to Maria Weston.
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Friend Request has its way of making me can't stop reading the book -- though it's not really that trilling. But it's how the book bore my curiosity into bottom deep, that makes me turning pages from one to one until the end. The twist and turn in this book were definitely beyond of what I had expected of how, who, and what actually had happened and about to happen.
The plot for me, was definitely moving upwards all the way till it met its peak and to the end. Though I was also accompanied with a range of emotion -- annoyed, anger -- through the story, kind of hating Louise too.
For me Louise always finds -- anything, anyone -- to be the reason of anything she did/does. She's this type of person who let everyone owns her, but she herself. It's not a good thing, it appears quiet annoying to me -- like she's indirectly shifting any blame to anyone but her. Because she let whatever she had done to have a reason behind it -- Sophie, Sam and Henry -- like she can reason it and makes it as if whatever happened back then was because she was once just this one teenager that messed up her life because someone took advantage on it, and her effort in covering what she did is because that's her responsibility as a mother to Henry, to make sure him growing up pure and innocently not tainted by his mother long time mistake. Well, maybe that's just how I see it.