Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Listen, I am not a prude but I feel like it is not fair or really cool to not give readers a heads up about the incredible amount of highly sexual content of this book. Parts were incredibly uncomfortable (again not a prude) but because I was not expecting it. You will accidentally stumble down the rabbit hole and not see it coming. I slapped my forehead for my lack of seeing the foreshadowing of things to come. Those who dislike f bombs will really need a pass on this. Yes, there are some but to me they pale in comparison to some of the frank talk in the book. (and by frank I mean talk that I would never in a million years utter out of my lips in front of anyone-maybe I'm a secret prude) I will not give a spoiler here because the words are probably on a list of things you can't write it a review (wash your mouth out with soap, make your mama blush words). I kept reading the book but feel it needs a warning to those who will feel GUT PUNCHED and suckered by not knowing what they are getting into. OK, now you know what to expect. But what about the book???? A great deal of hand wringing and self doubt. Like A LOT. Too much. After half way through I was sick of hearing about how our heroine Kat felt. Her internal dialogue is churning, churning and churning. My favorite anxiety quote: "It's ok if Doug (husband here) pities me, just a little, but if he knew everything, he'd be disgusted. And I couldn't live with that." How about a quote from the meat of the suspense: "Just because your paranoid doesn't mean nobody's after you." But really there was not ENOUGH suspense or at least I was too preoccupied by all the overpowering emotion baggage from Kat. This is Stepford Wives in a Trans-Urban twist. In Dec of 2016 a book titled The Missing by Caroline Eriksson was one of the Kindle Firsts for the month. I disliked that book because the suspense was bogged down in all the over wrought hand wringing self doubt that killed the book for me from getting anywhere and sadly it is shades of that for me here. The book will be loved by those who can overlook some of the things that just didn't sit with me. Not enough suspense for a book billed as suspense, the fry pan in the face with the sex talk that would make Dr. Ruth blush. F bombs not included.