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denaereads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Sexual content, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship
brittanyisbooked's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Infidelity and Sexual content
caityg22's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Racism
aleen_elizabeth's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
bookishchaos's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, and Trafficking
Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexism, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Bullying
ksamaine95's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism
Minor: Biphobia and Trafficking
lbooch24's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Sexual content and Trafficking
Moderate: Murder
Minor: Toxic relationship
meaghancook's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Sexual content
Moderate: Gun violence and Trafficking
Minor: Homophobia
rochelleisreading's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
2.0
Graphic: Infidelity and Sexual content
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