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Good Rich People by Eliza Jane Brazier

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cc_shelflove's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I love a quick, juicy thriller! Good Rich People includes two points of view, Lyla and Demi. Lyla's husband is soooooo bored. To combat his boredom he loves to play a game where he destroys the lives of unsuspecting affluent individuals. After all, the wealthy aren't paying attention to anyone but themselves. In this round of the game, Lyla becomes the cat and Demi is the mouse. I really liked reading the same events through each woman's eyes, although this made the timeline disorienting at times. While I couldn't put this book down, the ending was weak AF. There weren't very many twists, but overall I enjoyed reading about rich people I loved to hate.

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emmareeser's review

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dark tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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tpsebast92's review

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dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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winifreddie's review against another edition

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fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

it’s fun to hate rich people

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jnl00700's review

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dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I almost DNF’d this book and honestly I kinda wish I had. I think this was supposed to be satire and commentary on wealth inequality but I don’t think the author has ever met a poor person or understands the struggles associated with poverty. Every character who was poor was either homeless or a drug addict or both and that’s not a cute look. And all the characters were very one dimensional and also they were all terrible people?? I don’t know, the entire book just rubbed me the wrong way. Also, it was very predictable. I guessed the ending like 2-3 chapters in. I say don’t waste your time.

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abbiiieeee's review

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dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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booksofautumn's review

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adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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thepaperbackbruncher's review

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

[Thank you to Berkley Publishing Group and Netgalley for my gifted e-ARC copy of this book, all thoughts and opinions are my own]

Synopsis:
Lyla loves to play games, but her devastatingly handsome husband Graham takes games to a whole new (and dangerous) level. Alongside his mother, they "invite" someone to move into their mansion's guest home, only to get involved in their life and destroy them bit by bit. Enter Demi, a young woman down on her luck, living on the streets. When an *ahem* opportunity presents itself for her to take over the life of someone rich, established, and private - she jumps at the chance! The game begins, but who is playing who, and more importantly - who will win?

Review:
Can we get a moment for the cover? 5 stars, a stunner, 10/10, she's a beaut.
Alright, onto the innards, the book itself.
This thriller was refreshing in the way that it was unpredictable, intriguing, and truly original. I can't say it made me think of any other thrillers and stands strong as its own story. It's one of those thrillers that would be AMAZING to be adapted for the big screen. It's a true cat and mouse tale, jumping from POV to POV, with no one clear winner. I enjoyed how at times, it would switch who had the "upper hand". It was interesting, it was strange, and I liked it.

4 stars!

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arthur_ant18's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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thereadingraccoon's review

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dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Book review: Good Rich People by Eliza Jane Brazier

Good Rich People is an adult suspense novel about a trio of the ultra wealthy and the games they play with other people’s lives for their own amusement.

Good Rich People is told in alternating POV’s between wealthy Lyla (wife of Graham and daughter-in-law to Margo) and Demi (their new tenant who stumbles into their lives by accident) against a glittering Los Angeles backdrop of wealth and privilege. Lyla is tasked with destroying the life of their latest unwitting tenant in a long standing game that her husband and mother-in-law invented. The game is that they rent part of their home to a self-made person on the cusp of success and then slowly unmake them. But Lyla can’t figure Demi out because she’s not who they were expecting to show up when the game began.

I would have enjoyed this book more if I approached it as a dark comedy instead of a straight thriller. The over-the-top descriptions of wealth, the lack of moral compasses among the characters and the weird descriptions of things as mundane as Graham’s scent made it an odd reading experience overall. It was written as if someone listened to Lorde’s “Royals” on repeat decided to write a book about rich people being awful. There was nothing remotely human or relatable about the interactions within the entire book and I quickly grew exhausted of their machinations (and Graham’s scent) and just wanted people to die or whatever.

I wanted to enjoy this one and be entertained by the scenario of Spoiled vs Scrappy but none of the characters were clever or interesting enough to make it work for me.

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