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Believe Me
by JP Delaney
I received this book from the publishers via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
25-year-old Claire is a struggling actress in New York, trying to get by without a green card. One source of income she has, and a job she's good at, is using her acting abilities for a divorce attorney to catch out cheating husbands. When Claire is hired for a different type of role, somebody ends up dead the next day and a murder mystery/hunt for a serial killer begins..
I'm a bit conflicted about this book, I have to say. There were some parts I truly liked and others that didn't gel with me at all. Yet, I could not put this book down and I started to really not have a clue what would happen in it.
I do find the entire plot of this book to be slightly unbelievable the length of the undercover operation using a civilian AND one that had to actually sleep with the suspect is a bit cagey for me. I find it hard believing such things could really happen, and if they did, it would be with a highly trained undercover agent - not a penniless actress, no matter how pretty she is .
The character Claire herself I found extremely unlikable. All her bad decisions all seemed to stem straight from her childhood in foster care (this book definitely doesn't have anything good to say about the foster care system either - if I was a foster parent reading this, it would probably be a bit insulting). She never really seemed to actually help herself and some of the things she was apparently 'running away' from in England were not actually big deals.
I did really enjoy the serial killer parts of this story, and I think the way the author used the poetry of Charles Baudelaire in such a dark, twisty way was kind of genius. There were so many ways I would have liked the story to go, and I think that's because now again I enjoy a really f***ed up story. So ultimately I was left a bit disappointed.
I just have really mixed feelings about this book and there are some points in the story that the plot line feels really weak. But as I said, I was hooked and I think that has to be a good thing!
25-year-old Claire is a struggling actress in New York, trying to get by without a green card. One source of income she has, and a job she's good at, is using her acting abilities for a divorce attorney to catch out cheating husbands. When Claire is hired for a different type of role, somebody ends up dead the next day and a murder mystery/hunt for a serial killer begins..
I'm a bit conflicted about this book, I have to say. There were some parts I truly liked and others that didn't gel with me at all. Yet, I could not put this book down and I started to really not have a clue what would happen in it.
I do find the entire plot of this book to be slightly unbelievable
The character Claire herself I found extremely unlikable. All her bad decisions all seemed to stem straight from her childhood in foster care (this book definitely doesn't have anything good to say about the foster care system either - if I was a foster parent reading this, it would probably be a bit insulting). She never really seemed to actually help herself and some of the things she was apparently 'running away' from in England were not actually big deals.
I did really enjoy the serial killer parts of this story, and I think the way the author used the poetry of Charles Baudelaire in such a dark, twisty way was kind of genius. There were so many ways I would have liked the story to go, and I think that's because now again I enjoy a really f***ed up story. So ultimately I was left a bit disappointed.
I just have really mixed feelings about this book and there are some points in the story that the plot line feels really weak. But as I said, I was hooked and I think that has to be a good thing!