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granolagurll's review against another edition
4.0
Good book and one of the better ones by Emily Giffin. I read it in one day. The downside was the ending...it felt like there was so much more to say than how it ended followed by the epilogue.
laylarouse's review against another edition
5.0
Well-written story taking place in present-day Nashville with the son (Finch) of an affluent family taking/posting a picture of girl (Lyla) that has both racist and pornographic components. The book alternates between three characters (1 Nina, Finch’s Mother)(2 Tom, Lyla’s Father)(3 Lyla). I couldn’t put down this book because I was fully engaged in the storyline and wanted to know what happened to these wonderfully written characters.
michele_la's review against another edition
3.0
About 10% in I was ready to quit. I thought the writing was juvenile and didn't like all the descriptions of how rich and obnoxious these people were. Then the story suddenly sucked me in. It's so realistic and probably happens every day. The only thing that was missing for me was Finch's POV. Seemed like an unfinished thread.
heather212's review against another edition
5.0
Loved it. It took me a while to get the characters straightened out but once I did, it moved a lot faster.
melannsbookshelf's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
tlmc65's review against another edition
4.0
I very much enjoyed this - quick and easy read. Summer, beach type novel.
laurlyne's review against another edition
4.0
Easy read, and ok story. I guess it was meant to be a commentary on race and the #metoo movement and whatever else is going on these days in the world. But those challenges in real life do not clean up nearly as easily as this book did. I prefer Emily Giffin’s beach type books, fun, flirty, and easy to forget we live in the world we live in.
sdecoste's review against another edition
4.0
Nina Browning grew up in a middle class family in Bristol, Tennessee. When she was in college, she was brutally raped, but she never told anyone. Too ashamed to face her boyfriend, she broke things off with him, buried her feelings and went on to later meet and marry Kirk. He was from a wealthy Nashville family, and Nina enjoyed the life she had living in a $4 million mansion, playing tennis, raising their only son Finch and meeting friends for lunch. Soon after the family celebrates Finch's acceptance to Princeton in the fall, Nina discovers her perfect life is full of cracks. Seems Finch made a very bad error in judgment during a teen party. He took some pictures of a half-naked fellow student, Lyla, and sent them to a friend. As Nina soon discovers, her son and her husband do not take seriously the damage Finch has inflicted on Lyla. Nina starts to become Lyla's champion, to the detriment of her marriage and relationship with her son. She can't pinpoint the time Finch started treating people (girls) with so little respect. It's not how she raised him. What can she do to fix this and get back the son who once was so kind to others? A very good read.
alesha_b's review against another edition
4.0
I thought this would just be fluffy in-between books, but it was really thought-provoking and a good look inside the decisions sexual assault survivors are forced to make.