The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
My rating: 4/5 cats
i have been ENMESHED in a workthing that has kept me from this unpaid reviewing thing for a while but i am taking the evening off from it because if i don’t, i am going to ponch everything i see and my still-healing sprained wrist isn’t up to that kind of mayhem yet so here i am with some pisco and ginger beer and since this book comes out tomorrow, might as well see if anyone still cares what i think about books.
hello to the anyones/are you only in my mind?
oddly enough, the last dbr i wrote was for An Anonymous Girl so i guess these authors make me want to drink?
so this is the fourth book i have read by the voltron of gh/sp and while i really enjoyed The Wife Between Us, after that it was a bit of a diminishing returns sitch – they were closer to the FINE side of the three star mattress than the LIKED IT side. this one though, this planted itself on the like side enough for me to even round up because i don’t even care and have you seen the world lately?
it’s a really good time for an escape, and who doesn’t love/need a one-day mystery read, all soapy with infidelity and seeeecrets and threats from all directions?
and okay yeah – laura dave’s blurb said i would never see the twist coming and i did, but sometimes quantity is just as good as quality because here there are a million red herrings and twists and everybody’s lowkey shady to throw the reader off the track and those of us who’ve been around the book block a time or two will figure almost all of it out (especially when you have the opportunity to read the whole thing in one day so the details are still sharp in the mind and haven’t been dulled by life’s rich pageant of food and sleep and stress) but for me, even though i don’t go out of my way to actively try to figure out who did what in the where, should i happen to have a detail ignite something in my mind that causes me to suspect a thing that turns out to be true, this does not diminish my enjoyment or make me think the writers are bad or that i am clever because neither of those things is true.
it’s still fun to read these goofy psych suspense books where all the characters are dialed up to 10 on the drama scale and married couples are so full of secrets.
i do have a baseline appreciation for the idea of a therapist who lost their license because of their UNCONVENTIONAL METHODS but still doing the same work as a ‘consultant,’ counseling folks with all the training but none of the pesky rules or oversight – nothing to rein her in AND THE TAGLINE IS: when ‘do no harm’ becomes ‘do what thou wilt,’ that’s when the fun freaking starts.
needs work. needs more lime juice.
anyhoo, i would love for her to be a recurring character for this authorteam. it was a terrifically fun read and avery chambers – you are a much more effective as a loose cannon without a leash. and your little dog too! <— big hearts to marshmallowy pitty rescue dog romeo.
if that wasn’t a review, at least it was woRDS.
good evening to you.
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a twist i won’t see coming?
let’s! see! about! that!
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