It held my interest, but that's about all I can say about this book. I wasn't overly entertained and it wasn't all that enjoyable. I found Ellen to be rather annoying and unpleasant, and a lot of her relationship with Patrick made me uncomfortable because of how she treated his stalker ex. This book did seem to try to humanize Saskia too much and almost excuse what she was doing, which I found a little horrifying. Stalkers aren't something to be downplayed, regardless of their gender. But it did save itself a bit in the end in that regard. All in all, not as impressed by this book as I wanted to be.

The reveal in this book was such a letdown. I pretty much guessed what had happened but was waiting for that "something more" in the big twist, but it felt like the entire book was a huge overreaction to that single event. Other than that I just couldn't get into it, and while I've enjoyed Liane Moriarty's other books, this one fell flat.

This was laughably bad. I kind of enjoyed the process of reading it just because it was funny to me, but not enough for me to rate this higher like I do with some stereotypically "trashy" romance and thrillers. They took forever to actually get together for pretty much no reason. And I can enjoy some good drawn out sexual tension, but this was pretty much set up as they're both in love but not together because otherwise this wouldn't be a full-length novel. I picked it up thinking it would focus more on the sexually explicit pictures and Caroline's feelings, but any semblance of plot just exists to further the sex scenes. Not my thing, so I can't fault the book for that. I honestly enjoyed it enough that I would have finished the series if my library had the other books.

I was just bored throughout this whole book. It felt very disconnected to me, like none of the events made sense and there was no linear story. I was consistently having to remind myself what was happening and why, and even then I struggled to follow it or care in the slightest. I finished it just for the sake of finishing the book, but I really wouldn't recommend it to anyone. There wasn't so much that I actively disliked as there was so little that I liked. It felt very lacking and almost soulless.

This book wound up being too much for me, a little too far into the absurd and outlandish. I have difficulty suspending my disbelief that much on a contemporary novel. I just didn't buy a lot of what the characters were doing and the situations they found themselves in- a lot of "too convenient" scenarios. It wasn't a terrible read, but I found it hard to relate to and thus hard to care about.

This wasn't a great book, but the story was fun and I found myself following the plot with interest. Sure there were a fair number of various flaws in the plot, but it was one of those situations where I didn't really care. I actually was interested in where the story was going and what happened to the victim, and if a story interests me then there's not much else that matters. Not a book that made me think, but a pretty fun read all the same.

I felt very letdown by the Oprah seal on the cover. Didn't enjoy this book in the slightest. The prose felt over the top pretentious, like she was trying too hard to sound literary instead of trying to authentically write the characters. And the characters were all just miserable people. I don't have to like every character in every book I read, but I have to be entertained by them and at least want to follow their journey, and I really didn't here. If all of them had died in the end, I wouldn't have felt anything at all.

I also normally don't mind reading books that deal with difficult topics like incest, but this left me with an ick feeling.

This book was pretty generic. I'm pretty sure I've read/watched this story at least a dozen times before (fancy roleplay experience goes wrong and turns into actual murder/kidnapping). That being said, this was pretty entertaining. I didn't necessarily mind that it didn't offer anything new simply because it was a solid read with enough action that there was never a point to stop and think. While it wasn't necessarily a great book, it was definitely worth the read for me. A fun little mindless thriller.

This was an incredibly convoluted story for what turned out to be a pretty simple plot. It was full of so many twists and turns that felt extraneous. It also couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a romance novel or a thriller, and the two plots distracted from each other. Most of the characters were pretty unlikable and it all seemed too far fetched for my taste. Not a horrible book, but it felt like a waste of time when there are so many good thrillers out there.

For all the over the top action in this book, I found myself incredibly bored. I wanted to like it, and I was excited to start, but the plot just never jived with me. It felt a little too jumbled and almost like it was trying to be so high intensity for the whole book that it wound up coming across as flat. The plot twist at the end was also meh for me. I just wound up forcing my way through it and being very disappointed.