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stephsbooktalk 's review for:
What Have We Done
by Alex Finlay
Thank you so much to Alex Finlay, Minotaur Books, St Martins and NetGalley for an advance copy of this book!
I was first introduced to Finlay's work after reading The Night Shift last year which I loved! So I was super excited to be able to have this opportunity to read an early copy of this.
"Wealth and power can hide monsters in plain sight."
This book is told from primarily 3 point of views - Jenna, Nico and Donnie but a few others are sprinkled in that would be spoilers. These characters were teen friends from being in a group home together where a crime they all committed took place. They went their separate ways but 25 years later their past catches up to them and someone who knows about what they did blackmails them and one is left dead to kick off this action filled thriller.
I love having the different point of views and learning about each of the character separately before them all coming together in the last quarter of the book. Jenna moved on from her past & was trying to live a normal life with a family. Donnie is an aging rockstar who has let his addictions get the best of him and Nico is a television producer whose vice is gambling. Even with all seemingly having moved on from their traumatic teen years, it still haunts them. Each voice was clearly defined and you got to know their personalities.
I am a fan of when a book takes place within a short time frame. The sequence of events in this all took place within a few days which kept the pace moving quick.
As being a Pennsylvania resident about 2 hours outside of Philly, I love the little tidbits of Philly being thrown in. The Troc reference gave me a fist pump as I saw a few shows there before it closed.
My only critique of this would be I wish there had been more of a distinguish when it was a flashback vs present time. It would just seamless go into it with brief cues or even starting chapters in a flashback. Maybe if it would be all italicized or page breaks to indicate that this section was a flashback. I think had this been audio it could have been easily lost.
I could not stop reading this as we got to the unraveling of truths. I was sucked into the action and there were a few twists including in the epilogue.
I was first introduced to Finlay's work after reading The Night Shift last year which I loved! So I was super excited to be able to have this opportunity to read an early copy of this.
"Wealth and power can hide monsters in plain sight."
This book is told from primarily 3 point of views - Jenna, Nico and Donnie but a few others are sprinkled in that would be spoilers. These characters were teen friends from being in a group home together where a crime they all committed took place. They went their separate ways but 25 years later their past catches up to them and someone who knows about what they did blackmails them and one is left dead to kick off this action filled thriller.
I love having the different point of views and learning about each of the character separately before them all coming together in the last quarter of the book. Jenna moved on from her past & was trying to live a normal life with a family. Donnie is an aging rockstar who has let his addictions get the best of him and Nico is a television producer whose vice is gambling. Even with all seemingly having moved on from their traumatic teen years, it still haunts them. Each voice was clearly defined and you got to know their personalities.
I am a fan of when a book takes place within a short time frame. The sequence of events in this all took place within a few days which kept the pace moving quick.
As being a Pennsylvania resident about 2 hours outside of Philly, I love the little tidbits of Philly being thrown in. The Troc reference gave me a fist pump as I saw a few shows there before it closed.
My only critique of this would be I wish there had been more of a distinguish when it was a flashback vs present time. It would just seamless go into it with brief cues or even starting chapters in a flashback. Maybe if it would be all italicized or page breaks to indicate that this section was a flashback. I think had this been audio it could have been easily lost.
I could not stop reading this as we got to the unraveling of truths. I was sucked into the action and there were a few twists including in the epilogue.