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Sadie by Courtney Summers
5.0
I listen to this book from the library and I need to my own copy. Brilliant
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
3.0
This was an okay thriller. The ending was a bit dumb, the twist was pretty obvious to me from the start of Colin's narration. A lot people to seem to love it or hate it, but I thought was okay. Maybe slightly dumb, I honestly don't know why Mia thought she had to be kidnapped to for her father to go to jail, those things did not compute. I guess it was so that they would be a big case which presumed would happen because she a blonde white woman from an Upper class family so he couldn't cover it up but surely in local news at least evidence of a judge being corrupt would be big news to some news papers still. Why Blackmail and kidnapping?
I don't really mind it, I liked the journey well enough.
I listen to the audiobook which also an okay production, the only complaint that is that distressed sounded more annoying than a scared person at times.
I don't really mind it, I liked the journey well enough.
I listen to the audiobook which also an okay production, the only complaint that is that distressed sounded more annoying than a scared person at times.
The House Swap by Rebecca Fleet
2.0
Disappointingly not a thriller of any kind and likes to just dance around facts. Also has sex scenes that got real boring as I literally had no investment. The "Twist" is dumb, especially with the audiobook production. Would have worked better with a single narrator instead of four.
If want something that's actually a thriller then go for [b:You Let Me In|39856154|You Let Me In|Lucy Clarke|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1523816644l/39856154._SY75_.jpg|61641277]. It's actually a thriller and I didn't question not finishing it. It has a similar feature of someone renting their House to someone while they away.
This book does have Thriller elements, like an obvious mystery that you know will be solved as soon as you know what terrible secret the MC has, so it's not thrilling at all. There's also the Husband's mystery drug problem, that he started because of stress, so it is a prescribed drug. I know it's not antidepressants but imagining it was and his wife was just arse really fitted with this book. It's never stated so feels very McGuffin.
Full review here.
If want something that's actually a thriller then go for [b:You Let Me In|39856154|You Let Me In|Lucy Clarke|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1523816644l/39856154._SY75_.jpg|61641277]. It's actually a thriller and I didn't question not finishing it. It has a similar feature of someone renting their House to someone while they away.
This book does have Thriller elements, like an obvious mystery that you know will be solved as soon as you know what terrible secret the MC has, so it's not thrilling at all. There's also the Husband's mystery drug problem, that he started because of stress, so it is a prescribed drug. I know it's not antidepressants but imagining it was and his wife was just arse really fitted with this book. It's never stated so feels very McGuffin.
Full review here.
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
3.0
I'm autistic, on the lines of Aspergers but that's not thing that diagonalised anymore.
From autistic point of view, the autism is portrayed well. It's is actually shown in actions and behaviour so that great. However, There were some things I'm just not here for. The Self-hate, I know it realistic, but I'm just sick of it with Autistic characters, especially when they are grown-arse women. Also label hate. Internal ableism is just so not fun.
Hoang has this author note about what discovering what autism meant to her "When I wrote The Kiss Quotient, I became myself, and I’ve been unapologetically myself ever since. Sometimes instead of confining you, a label can set you free." That's great, that what Autism was for me. The thing is none of that attitude is in this book. That what I am desperate to see in a book with Autistic protagonist. So I'm just like what went wrong. (Also author notes nor acknowledgements appear in Audiobook versions).
Autism becomes a plot, more than a trait with the Denial and Self hated. It's never addressed. If was just self-doubt and moments of weakness that would work, but it's constant and it doesn't feel like there's a turn around. And then the character says she not Disabled, which is I know is a can of worms about whether autism is a disability or not (I personally says it is). It's just in the context, that being Disabled is this thing that has to be denied. It's just all this internal ableism and whatever side you fall on, Autistic people definitely face Ableism. Hell, a main plot point of this book is about ableism. It's just not a fun to read, especially when deal with all this stuff in real all the time.
And then there's this on going thing of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault. Stella treats like it nothing, Michael sees it as Sexual Assault but that could be read as Jealous. I know Society can be messed up. The whole way it's treated is weird.
BTW, there's a lot of sex scenes in this book from the back. I got real bored, but if that's your jam, Go you. I thought this was a romantic comedy sort of thing so wasn't expected as much there was. I know escort, but there's a lot media with escorts with very little physical action. There were lines that made took me out of it completely out of those scenes. I listen to this on audio book, but I would switch to ebook version to scrim read these scenes.
I also did a review on my blog: Stuff about characters and stuff. This is really just my initial thoughts. I also live-tweeted my reading of this book so you can see when this book turned for me:my tweets
From autistic point of view, the autism is portrayed well. It's is actually shown in actions and behaviour so that great. However, There were some things I'm just not here for. The Self-hate, I know it realistic, but I'm just sick of it with Autistic characters, especially when they are grown-arse women. Also label hate. Internal ableism is just so not fun.
Hoang has this author note about what discovering what autism meant to her "When I wrote The Kiss Quotient, I became myself, and I’ve been unapologetically myself ever since. Sometimes instead of confining you, a label can set you free." That's great, that what Autism was for me. The thing is none of that attitude is in this book. That what I am desperate to see in a book with Autistic protagonist. So I'm just like what went wrong. (Also author notes nor acknowledgements appear in Audiobook versions).
Autism becomes a plot, more than a trait with the Denial and Self hated. It's never addressed. If was just self-doubt and moments of weakness that would work, but it's constant and it doesn't feel like there's a turn around. And then the character says she not Disabled, which is I know is a can of worms about whether autism is a disability or not (I personally says it is). It's just in the context, that being Disabled is this thing that has to be denied. It's just all this internal ableism and whatever side you fall on, Autistic people definitely face Ableism. Hell, a main plot point of this book is about ableism. It's just not a fun to read, especially when deal with all this stuff in real all the time.
And then there's this on going thing of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault. Stella treats like it nothing, Michael sees it as Sexual Assault but that could be read as Jealous. I know Society can be messed up. The whole way it's treated is weird.
BTW, there's a lot of sex scenes in this book from the back. I got real bored, but if that's your jam, Go you. I thought this was a romantic comedy sort of thing so wasn't expected as much there was. I know escort, but there's a lot media with escorts with very little physical action. There were lines that made took me out of it completely out of those scenes. I listen to this on audio book, but I would switch to ebook version to scrim read these scenes.
I also did a review on my blog: Stuff about characters and stuff. This is really just my initial thoughts. I also live-tweeted my reading of this book so you can see when this book turned for me:my tweets