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A review by emily_loves_2_read
Reputation by Sarah Vaughan
4.0
Reputation
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Genre: Thriller
Format: Kindle eBook
Date Published: 7/5/22
Author: Sarah Vaughan
Publisher: Atria Books
Pages: 336
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for providing a digital advanced readers copy of the book for me to read for my honest opinion.
Synopsis: As a politician, Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career--including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter, Flora. Fourteen-year-old Flora is learning the same hard lessons at school as she encounters heartless bullying. When another teenager takes her own life, Emma lobbies for a new law to protect women and girls from the effects of online abuse. Now, Emma and Flora find their personal lives uncomfortably intersected--but then the unthinkable happens: A man is found dead in Emma’s home, a man she had every reason to be afraid of and to want gone. Fighting to protect her reputation, and determined to protect her family at all costs, Emma is pushed to the limits as the worst happens and her life is torn apart.
My Thoughts: We live in a world where your reputation is everything, it can take years to build and second to destroy. Once destroyed, it could more years to reestablish yourself. Social media is everywhere and we put every part of our lives on social media, hopefully this book will make you hesitate to do that. That is what made me want to read this book. This book is classified as a thriller, but could also be classified as fiction due to the very strong message it relays. The book is narrated by several characters, mainly Emma and Flora, from their own perspective. I loved the court scenes as I generally gravitate toward legal scenarios. The characters were very well developed, had depth, strong, and the female characters were portrayed as very intelligent. The author’s writing was complex, thought-provoking, gripping, shocking, creative, and just brilliant. This story does not follow a typical thriller with red herrings and unreliable narrators, it a story that absolutely could be real, which is what makes this book so good. This is the first I have read by this author, but will not be my last.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre: Thriller
Format: Kindle eBook
Date Published: 7/5/22
Author: Sarah Vaughan
Publisher: Atria Books
Pages: 336
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for providing a digital advanced readers copy of the book for me to read for my honest opinion.
Synopsis: As a politician, Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career--including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter, Flora. Fourteen-year-old Flora is learning the same hard lessons at school as she encounters heartless bullying. When another teenager takes her own life, Emma lobbies for a new law to protect women and girls from the effects of online abuse. Now, Emma and Flora find their personal lives uncomfortably intersected--but then the unthinkable happens: A man is found dead in Emma’s home, a man she had every reason to be afraid of and to want gone. Fighting to protect her reputation, and determined to protect her family at all costs, Emma is pushed to the limits as the worst happens and her life is torn apart.
My Thoughts: We live in a world where your reputation is everything, it can take years to build and second to destroy. Once destroyed, it could more years to reestablish yourself. Social media is everywhere and we put every part of our lives on social media, hopefully this book will make you hesitate to do that. That is what made me want to read this book. This book is classified as a thriller, but could also be classified as fiction due to the very strong message it relays. The book is narrated by several characters, mainly Emma and Flora, from their own perspective. I loved the court scenes as I generally gravitate toward legal scenarios. The characters were very well developed, had depth, strong, and the female characters were portrayed as very intelligent. The author’s writing was complex, thought-provoking, gripping, shocking, creative, and just brilliant. This story does not follow a typical thriller with red herrings and unreliable narrators, it a story that absolutely could be real, which is what makes this book so good. This is the first I have read by this author, but will not be my last.