A review by paperdollpages
No One Knows Us Here by Rebecca Kelley
3.0
This was my Kindle FirstReads pick for the month of December. I was drawn to the description and concept of this book!
This book is about a 20-something woman living in Portland barely getting by. She lives with several roommates and works at a cooking supply store. After her roommate encourages her to try escorting as a way to make money, she meets a rich and powerful tech CEO. The man then becomes obsessed with her and pays her to be his pretend girlfriend in exchange for a large paycheck & a dope apartment.
I enjoyed the story and the characters, but it ended up just being an average read. The author’s writing style was difficult to follow. She jumped around a lot with the timeline. The author would often fast forward weeks at time or have missing gaps of time that were filled in by dialogue between the characters with no warning. I would find myself going back a few pages and re-reading because I thought I had missed something. The ending was terrible. The whole “court case” part could have been left out all together. It was totally unnecessary and took the story in a weird direction.
This book is about a 20-something woman living in Portland barely getting by. She lives with several roommates and works at a cooking supply store. After her roommate encourages her to try escorting as a way to make money, she meets a rich and powerful tech CEO. The man then becomes obsessed with her and pays her to be his pretend girlfriend in exchange for a large paycheck & a dope apartment.
I enjoyed the story and the characters, but it ended up just being an average read. The author’s writing style was difficult to follow. She jumped around a lot with the timeline. The author would often fast forward weeks at time or have missing gaps of time that were filled in by dialogue between the characters with no warning. I would find myself going back a few pages and re-reading because I thought I had missed something. The ending was terrible. The whole “court case” part could have been left out all together. It was totally unnecessary and took the story in a weird direction.