happy_hiker's review against another edition
2.0
Genny (age 17) has an affair with 37-year-old artist Slade. He dumps her when he finds out her age and that her father is the owner of the gallery he has commissioned to work for. They meet 20 years later when Gabriel and her dad and involved in an accident, and affair is rekindled. Gabriel ends up dead in a suicide in which Genny assisted. Or did she? Was it an assisted suicide? Or murder? Was she enraged at Gabriel, or did she kill him because of her screwed up relationship with her father?.
The story goes back and forth between past events of their affairs/obsession and Genny’s relationship with her parents and a present day courtroom drama in which Genny is being tried for murder.
I found the obsessive relationship between Genny and Gabriel a little annoying – and found myself often thinking of the sloth in ice age when he said “she completes me” and made a little heart in the air with his fingers.
I don’t remember where I came across this book or why I chose to order it/check it out. After reading it, I noticed it had many five star rates on a review site I looked at and was called a “page-turner” and “thriller” – I obviously disagree. I thought the book was merely average, and found myself falling asleep and skimming.
The story goes back and forth between past events of their affairs/obsession and Genny’s relationship with her parents and a present day courtroom drama in which Genny is being tried for murder.
I found the obsessive relationship between Genny and Gabriel a little annoying – and found myself often thinking of the sloth in ice age when he said “she completes me” and made a little heart in the air with his fingers.
I don’t remember where I came across this book or why I chose to order it/check it out. After reading it, I noticed it had many five star rates on a review site I looked at and was called a “page-turner” and “thriller” – I obviously disagree. I thought the book was merely average, and found myself falling asleep and skimming.
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