Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Warning: spoilers ahead. This book was cheap. Boring, flat, predictable, repetitive, derivative. How many times do we need to read Hannah thinking “she will do whatever is necessary so Bailey can remain herself?” Instead of showing us ANYTHING, the author chooses to tell us. Over and over. And over. Every single character remains flat, repetitive, unlikeable. Especially Bailey, whom this story revolves around “protecting.” Everytime Bailey “loses her temper” and snaps at someone, her dialogue is the exact same biting vitriol she perceives she’s delivering even in a normal convo. Everybody’s motivations in this narrative are completely unrealistic and reaching. Can we talk about the $600,000 cash she left in the house while going on a wild goose chase after some football team colors? And Hannah wanting nothing to do with the cash, despite the fact her husband left it to his daughter which was his instruction, which was important enough to follow when it vaguely said “protect her” but not important enough to safeguard a sum of cash to pay for her future. Ok. I’m not even going to touch Hannah’s bizarre confidence that she can strike a deal with a literal convicted felon or how unlikely the crimes that got him convicted in the first place were. The author has no knowledge or understanding of organized crime, or the legal system. I’m also not going to touch how unrealistic everything she wrote about Austin was, the constant imagined clever quips by the narrator or the cringeworthy dialogue. This was painful. I only finished it because I finish all books. Between this and Crawdads, I’ve lost ALL respect for Reese’s book club and I now think she’s a total hack. PLEASE SKIP THIS. DON’T BE LIKE ME.