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lyshbish's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, and Classism
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, and Outing
brookey8888's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I jusy love reading about rich people drama. The beginning of this was really good and I was interested, but then in the middle I was kind of bored because it just felt repetitive. I wish there was more present chapters because I would honestly forget that someone was killed. *slight spoiler* Then the last little bit was actually shocking because I didn’t expect such a dark topic to be in this.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Murder, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
julienicole1106's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Outing, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Classism
alysereadsbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Bullying, Death, and Classism
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Outing
minimicropup's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
- An entrepreneur whose business is their motivation, but now that they have success they are wishing for a partner to share it with
- A grudge-holding, insecure, egotistical, likely psychopathic ‘frenemy’
- A temporarily but dramatically unhinged outcast
- A seemingly sweet, naïve newcomer
- A peace-keeping, people-pleasing parent
- Set in a rich suburb (I think near Atlanta, Georgia) mainly in the exclusive local salon and salon members’ homes and parties.
- Simple, potentially fun read that is best taken at face-value. Not meant for overthinking or realistic, deep reading moments, but does touch on some serious issues.
- The characters and their spouses were almost caricatures and just…a LOT. They start off as walking stereotypes ranging from asshole to insufferable to dense, but somehow, they started to grow on me as the story progressed.
- I had multiple “get to the point!” DNF moments on this one that I managed to fight off. It was just so long to me sometimes. Twists/reveals start off as small, scintillating relationship and frenemy drama and progress to more serious criminal enterprises. The trouble was that each reveal seemed so drawn out because we see almost every happening from all five POVs before we can progress to more of the story. I stuck with it because I was curious.
- I get overly frustrated by dialogue-driven existential crisis plots, but now that it has ended I kinda miss these characters (er, some of them). I'm also relieved to be rid of them!
- I appreciate how the author pulled off an OTT character drama that didn’t rely on the tropes typical to rich people/domestic thriller-dramas. There wasn’t a single “hold-back, if only you knew”, “it's impossible to be childfree-by-choice”, “my children are my entire reason for existing (and therefore whiny and insufferable)”, “suspense through conversation interruptions” trope in this story!
- Dialogue-driven narratives
- Rich people behaving badly
- OTT housewives reality show can’t-look-away energy
- Amateur frenemy crime-fighting suspense
Graphic: Bullying
Moderate: Body shaming, Infidelity, Sexual content, Outing, and Alcohol
Minor: Biphobia
ssarahbbeth's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Bullying, Infidelity, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism
Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, and Trafficking
Minor: Gun violence and Outing
sderrig's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Blood, Trafficking, Murder, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism