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Someone Had To Do It
by Danielle Brown, Amber Brown
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Disclaimer: I received this e-arc from the publisher. Thanks! All opinions are my own.
Book: Someone Had To Do It
Author: Amber Brown and Danielle Brown
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 3/5
Diversity: Black MC and characters, gay character
Recommended For...: mystery readers, thriller readers, crime
Publication Date: December 27, 2022
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Age Relevance: 18+ (death, alcohol consumption, gore, cursing, racism, sexual content, cancer, drugs, classism, micro aggressions, suicide, parental death)
Explanation of Above: There is death mentioned and shown in this book including parental death. Suicide is mentioned in the form of attempted, ideationized, and completed. There is some graphic description of how it was performed. There is some blood gore. There are scenes of alcohol consumption. There is cursing. There are scenes of racism, micro aggressions, and classism. There are some sexual content shown and mentioned in the book. Cancer is mentioned. There are scenes of drug usage and mentions of drugs.
Publisher: Graydon House
Pages: 352
Synopsis: Brandi Maxwell is living the dream as an intern at prestigious New York fashion house Simon Van Doren. Except “living the dream” looks more like scrubbing puke from couture dresses worn by hard-partying models and putting up with microaggressions from her white colleagues. Still, she can’t help but fangirl over Simon’s it-girl daughter, Taylor. Until one night, at a glamorous Van Doren party, when Brandi overhears something she shouldn’t have, and her fate becomes dangerously intertwined Taylor’s.
Model and influencer Taylor Van Doren has everything…and is this close to losing it all. Her fashion mogul father will donate her inheritance to charity if she fails her next drug test, and he’s about to marry someone nearly as young as Taylor, further threatening her stake in the family fortune. But Taylor deserves the money that’s rightfully hers. And she’ll go to any lengths to get it, even if that means sacrificing her famous father in the process.
All she needs is the perfect person to take the fall...
Review: For the most part this was an interesting book. The book is a duel POV between two characters, one a rich heiress who is on her father’s bad side and is desperate to get his money and back the man who left her years ago. The other is a woman who is just trying to live her life with her boyfriend and trying to break into the fashion world when she’s met with the other narrator of our tale and… well the other has it outs for her. The book quickly turns to a story of revenge and desperation as we see how far the heiress is willing to go to ensure she gets what she wants. For the most part, I found the book interesting and I loved the duel POV usage in this read. The book had a lot of good moments as well that I thought were thought provoking.
However, I didn’t feel like the book was fully fleshed out. There were some moments to have great characters but it wasn’t achieved in my opinion. I also felt like the beginning was a bit too complex for the story and the set-up took much longer than the actual mystery of the novel.
Verdict: It was ok.
Book: Someone Had To Do It
Author: Amber Brown and Danielle Brown
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 3/5
Diversity: Black MC and characters, gay character
Recommended For...: mystery readers, thriller readers, crime
Publication Date: December 27, 2022
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Age Relevance: 18+ (death, alcohol consumption, gore, cursing, racism, sexual content, cancer, drugs, classism, micro aggressions, suicide, parental death)
Explanation of Above: There is death mentioned and shown in this book including parental death. Suicide is mentioned in the form of attempted, ideationized, and completed. There is some graphic description of how it was performed. There is some blood gore. There are scenes of alcohol consumption. There is cursing. There are scenes of racism, micro aggressions, and classism. There are some sexual content shown and mentioned in the book. Cancer is mentioned. There are scenes of drug usage and mentions of drugs.
Publisher: Graydon House
Pages: 352
Synopsis: Brandi Maxwell is living the dream as an intern at prestigious New York fashion house Simon Van Doren. Except “living the dream” looks more like scrubbing puke from couture dresses worn by hard-partying models and putting up with microaggressions from her white colleagues. Still, she can’t help but fangirl over Simon’s it-girl daughter, Taylor. Until one night, at a glamorous Van Doren party, when Brandi overhears something she shouldn’t have, and her fate becomes dangerously intertwined Taylor’s.
Model and influencer Taylor Van Doren has everything…and is this close to losing it all. Her fashion mogul father will donate her inheritance to charity if she fails her next drug test, and he’s about to marry someone nearly as young as Taylor, further threatening her stake in the family fortune. But Taylor deserves the money that’s rightfully hers. And she’ll go to any lengths to get it, even if that means sacrificing her famous father in the process.
All she needs is the perfect person to take the fall...
Review: For the most part this was an interesting book. The book is a duel POV between two characters, one a rich heiress who is on her father’s bad side and is desperate to get his money and back the man who left her years ago. The other is a woman who is just trying to live her life with her boyfriend and trying to break into the fashion world when she’s met with the other narrator of our tale and… well the other has it outs for her. The book quickly turns to a story of revenge and desperation as we see how far the heiress is willing to go to ensure she gets what she wants. For the most part, I found the book interesting and I loved the duel POV usage in this read. The book had a lot of good moments as well that I thought were thought provoking.
However, I didn’t feel like the book was fully fleshed out. There were some moments to have great characters but it wasn’t achieved in my opinion. I also felt like the beginning was a bit too complex for the story and the set-up took much longer than the actual mystery of the novel.
Verdict: It was ok.