Not just one shocking twist!

Cathryn Grant has a way of writing some of the most superficially obnoxious characters you could ever hope not to meet, then peeling away in a series of individual monologues their motivations and fears, their snobbery, and their vacuuous but extraordinary ordinariness till you've got a long way past wanting to slap some sense into them. The pace is slick, the psychology sound, the introspective machinations there to strip away the public fronts we all use as defences to reveal profoundly ordinary human complexities. These are suburban people with suburban ideals and concerns, easily dismissed as of little interest compared with the usual gritty urbanites, down-and-outs, city slickers and psychopathic CEOs, or weird loners living in isolated farms who usually populate stories of crime and foul play. Grant is the master of the suburban noir genre and this, with its shocking twist that has another shocking twist or two right after it, is one of her best.

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Refreshingly different, but not quite there yet

I really liked how the points of view kept changing throughout the book, and how it wasn't obvious from the beginning like a lot of books in this genre. I also liked that it wasn't gory or overly dark - until the very end. The male narrator was almost unbearable, so be warned. But overall, I'd definitely listen to another of thus author's books if written like this. I found it a good pace and loved the perspectives.

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