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A review by eculatta
Last Woman Standing by Amy Gentry
4.0
Loved her Good as Gone and got an email from GoodReads describing this one: "I wrote about violence against women in my first novel, Good as Gone. But the kidnapping in Good as Gone was a very rare type of crime. In Last Woman Standing, I wanted to create a page-turning thriller out of something many women have personally experienced." Sounds great!
Read this psychological thriller in about 24 hours of page turnin' fun. The ultimate #MeToo book. He said/she said and who do you believe? But not like you’d expect. Or maybe exactly like you’d expect. The same events described in a different light take on new meaning. It all spirals out of control so quickly. I felt like I was dropping through quicksand. This book made me second-guess everything and everybody.
Slight spoiler-y reaction: I was beginning to wonder if it was Jason instead of Mattie. If Jason is really rotten to the core. 248 I wasn’t really expecting a psychological thriller. But I got one. It’s good. /Spoilerish over
QUOTES:
I want you to be scared of being alone with strange women, like I’m scared of being alone with strange men. -116
It had left me with a craving for closeness coupled with the need for infinite space. Wasn’t that what comedy was? A kind of intimate distance, a way to get a response that you could predict and even, in the best of circumstances, control? 134
And all he wanted was to get back at Jason. I wasn’t even a person to him – just something he could take away from his brother to prove who was the bigger man. I felt too disgusted for tears. 231
Sometimes it feels so dark, just waking up every day as a woman, in a woman’s body. What we go through. What we have to live with. Groped, harassed, stalked, followed down dark alleys. It makes you paranoid. He snorted. Except you’re not really paranoid, because there really are people out to get you. Men. A lot of them. 244 Every woman I know has gone through something. Raped, assaulted, harassed, forced out of jobs. Trapped in abusive relationships. We talk about it with each other when the guys aren’t around. And since most of us aren’t out there making revenge pacts, I don’t know what the incentive would be to lie. 245
Read this psychological thriller in about 24 hours of page turnin' fun. The ultimate #MeToo book. He said/she said and who do you believe? But not like you’d expect. Or maybe exactly like you’d expect. The same events described in a different light take on new meaning. It all spirals out of control so quickly. I felt like I was dropping through quicksand. This book made me second-guess everything and everybody.
Slight spoiler-y reaction: I was beginning to wonder if it was Jason instead of Mattie. If Jason is really rotten to the core. 248 I wasn’t really expecting a psychological thriller. But I got one. It’s good. /Spoilerish over
QUOTES:
I want you to be scared of being alone with strange women, like I’m scared of being alone with strange men. -116
It had left me with a craving for closeness coupled with the need for infinite space. Wasn’t that what comedy was? A kind of intimate distance, a way to get a response that you could predict and even, in the best of circumstances, control? 134
And all he wanted was to get back at Jason. I wasn’t even a person to him – just something he could take away from his brother to prove who was the bigger man. I felt too disgusted for tears. 231
Sometimes it feels so dark, just waking up every day as a woman, in a woman’s body. What we go through. What we have to live with. Groped, harassed, stalked, followed down dark alleys. It makes you paranoid. He snorted. Except you’re not really paranoid, because there really are people out to get you. Men. A lot of them. 244 Every woman I know has gone through something. Raped, assaulted, harassed, forced out of jobs. Trapped in abusive relationships. We talk about it with each other when the guys aren’t around. And since most of us aren’t out there making revenge pacts, I don’t know what the incentive would be to lie. 245