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Pretty Things
by Janelle Brown
"We all build our own delusions and then live inside them, constructing walls to conveniently hide the things we don't want to see. [...] Maybe it's just that the world we live in now makes it so hard to separate truth from image and dream."
What do a reluctant con artist and a heiress have in common?
Their own shallow understanding of the world and people around them.
This was a heist that I didn't expect: full of history, depth, justified in a sick kind of way yet the full picture was always just a little hazy in the beginning. Both narrators Nina Ross and Vanessa Liebling were well written and their contrasting childhoods and eventual lifestyles helped propel the story into a crazy ride - it's one of those books where you can't decide who's right and who's wrong the longer it goes on; instead you gain a weird kind of kinship with both characters no matter where on the socio-economic scale you fall on. They're just human after all. They're all just trying to make a way for themselves and those closest to them - even if it means risking everything in the process.
I originally bought this book simply because the cover was pretty but I ended up being flabbergasted at the revelations and understanding of events that unfolded - I kid you not, I was on my knees at work and trying not to gasp too loudly the longer this book went on and the more was revealed. I couldn't put the book down. so uh yeah, totally would recommend this book. Its nothing like you'd expect, but I mean that in the best way possible.
What do a reluctant con artist and a heiress have in common?
Their own shallow understanding of the world and people around them.
This was a heist that I didn't expect: full of history, depth, justified in a sick kind of way yet the full picture was always just a little hazy in the beginning. Both narrators Nina Ross and Vanessa Liebling were well written and their contrasting childhoods and eventual lifestyles helped propel the story into a crazy ride - it's one of those books where you can't decide who's right and who's wrong the longer it goes on; instead you gain a weird kind of kinship with both characters no matter where on the socio-economic scale you fall on. They're just human after all. They're all just trying to make a way for themselves and those closest to them - even if it means risking everything in the process.
I originally bought this book simply because the cover was pretty but I ended up being flabbergasted at the revelations and understanding of events that unfolded - I kid you not, I was on my knees at work and trying not to gasp too loudly the longer this book went on and the more was revealed. I couldn't put the book down. so uh yeah, totally would recommend this book. Its nothing like you'd expect, but I mean that in the best way possible.