The twist did not twist. It felt so tagged on. Like gurl we were in her pov the whole book and she did and said things that made no sense if she was the killer. Also didn’t Adam see Kelly asleep before he left? How come he didn’t see her literally stabbed to death. The author literally forgot about that.
I agree the ending wasn’t the best. But it was a couple signs. Her coldness and demeanor. Her not calling 911 for an hour when her mom died. I had a feeling she was the one who truly did it. And her non caring about anything that doesn’t involve her own personal work
We get to see Sarah's internal dialog throughout the book. We get to hear her thoughts and feelings. I feel like the author intentionally misdirected the readers through the internal dialog of Sarah. Why would she be surprised in her head by things she already knew? Why would she be wondering if she could work things out or if her marriage is over if that was never an actual question to her? Why would she say in her thoughts that she plans on divorcing her husband after the trial when we later learn that this was far from her actual plan? The author lied to the reader through Sarah in order to create a plot twist. People say that they had no clue that the twist was going to happen. They had no clue because the narrative directly contradicted it.
I had guessed in the begging that she did it.. but, it didn’t make sense. Because of all of the points you made. And as my roommate likes to say, “it’s not a twist, it a lie”
Just finished the book 20 minutes ago, I loved how she lost the case on purpose. I liked the dark turn, he was incredibly self centered and the root of his character was linked to his weaknesses. Sarah from the very beginning was calculating, smarter than him, and in the end she felt angry internally but played the long game. I think the novel is more sinister due to the fact her violence was deep under the surface.
Ya I agree…like I get that she wanted a plot twist but the whole half of the book we are following Sarah’s character and rooting for her….and it never hinted at her being completely evil….and the whole time we are rooting for her to win the case and then to find out that she loses it and that he gets the death penalty…like the ending made me sad
I never rooted for her, she’s a terrible person. Adam was kinda annoying, but despite him being a cheater, I actually felt for him the most. I knew she was an evil bitch, but damnnnnn
I want to go back and reread Sarah’s internal monologue cus now that I think about it she was more concerned about that dna than who actually killed homegirl
I did not enjoy this ending. But it was for sure different. I think the reason I’m struggling with it is more so the fact that Adam was innocent. Sarah was for sure sick to go through all this and have him pay for a crime he didn’t do. But I will say looking back there were signs of her being off.
I just read this book and the ending left a bad taste in my mouth. Adam was a POS but he didnt deserve that. I felt like i was mislead. The ending felt cheap to me. Ill be sticking to my historical romances.
Sis. Girl! Why did I say all the stuff you said? My 20 year old daughter recommended this book to me and I said almost all what you said. She kept telling me I was dumb or whatever, thank you for proving my point.
I didn’t love this book. The dialogue was cringey, it dragged and pulled a lot of unnecessary characters in , then the verdict being cutoff and she like “Oh, Yea… it was me” made me dislike it. Frieda did the same BS with Never Lie and it didn’t hit for me, it was like a cop out. The comments defending this book is hilarious, just because it was flat for us, doesn’t mean come tell everybody how wrong we are . Happy it worked for yall.
His spoiled, drunken, cheating self, messed up her happy home, let his mother stomp on her in those Chanel heels, tried to knock her up and mess up her career because his was failing and after fatherhood flopped as hard as his writing he would have let with half of HER money… no he got what he got. It was so nice of Sarah to act as surrogate for Matthew and his partner☺️
@@enriquesanchez9016 and do😌 Boys have Marvel & DC. Girls have unhinged female revenge novels🤷🏾♀️ I spit on your grave had 3 remakes. Men watched silent and transfixed during the brutal gang rape scenes. Yet cringed and moaned in sympathy as the rapist got the same brutality. Surely these men weren’t empathizing with the villains 🤔 But it’s all fantasy right? Not that deep…
@@enriquesanchez9016 exactly, yet here we are, with a new Joker movie every few years… or is it only okay for men to root for the villain in unhinged revenge fantasies?
it seemed like such an extreme way to get rid of someone and not have them take half of your money. i guess thats the point and shows you how “off” she is. i get he was a dick and had it coming to him but this seems like alot
Also absolutely at no point in time ever is a wife aloud to defend their spouse in court. That's called a conflict of interest. Good but not good enough.
100% agree. The twist was so dumb. It's not plausible at all. WTF was that ending? I felt cheated by that ending. Everything up until that point was pointing to Adam being the one that did it but blacked out, and that's why he didn't remember. I need a better ending. 😩
The ending was super confusing to me too. There was absolutely zero connection between Sarah throughout the story and Sarah at the end. I felt it was too convenient and not well thought out. I think it would have been better with ANYONE else than Sarah. Deputy Hudson was the logical and obvious suspect so the ending probably wouldn’t work with him. If the book was cut short where Bob started to become suspicious and turned out to be him, it would’ve worked better for me. I also had an issue with the narrative about Kelly when there was the third set of DNA in her. Before any suspicions of rape was brought up, the book immediate painted her as a whore, and Anne literally said Kelly got around. If that’s the way she wants the characters to be fine - but there was no follow-up to discuss slut shaming, which tells me a lot about the author’s own biases that had led her to have written so unintentionally.
I think that is the point of the writer to get to feel blind sided and confused I read the book in one sitting and thought it was great! I suspected Anne for some reason lol and I felt that she knew that her husband had been cheating on her… she is calculated and very intelligent… she reacted to calmly to the murder and cheating… trying to act strong for what?! So yeah it was sus
Not a girl or a guy that likes guys, but my friend told me to read this and my name is Adam😂.. but agreed there is allot about this book that needs a better editor.
I listened to the audiobook and I was kind of annoyed like really ? Also if you think Adam sounds cringey; whomever narratored for him sounded like a whole ICK 😅
It's not quite the same. Unreliable narrators tell their version of the story in an altered way, and often this creates an interesting second read, as the story gets recontextualized when everything is revealed. This story is different. The story isn't warped through Sarah's point of view. She directly lies to the reader on multiple occasions. It would be different if the book was written in a way that she was the author and lying to us by writing lies into her book, but this story is told from multiple first person accounts. We get to see what she is thinking. Why would someone act confused in their own head when they know what's going on? Why would she think all of those misleading things in her own head? She wasn't an unreliable narrator. The author used her point of view to lie to the reader and make it seem like she had nothing to do with it, just to create a cheap twist. If you reread this book with the knowledge that she was the killer, then half of the thoughts that she had, wondering what is going on, suspecting others as the killer, reacting to new information that she already knew,.. all of that no longer makes sense. It would be different If we were never let into her head, but we were. This narrative does not make sense.
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The twist did not twist. It felt so tagged on. Like gurl we were in her pov the whole book and she did and said things that made no sense if she was the killer. Also didn’t Adam see Kelly asleep before he left? How come he didn’t see her literally stabbed to death. The author literally forgot about that.
That was my thought
Exactly!! He saw her asleep before he left!! But, the author said Sarah used plastic wrap and stabbed her while he was sleeping. @@Perfection_NV
Read the book… Adam literally said it was pitched black, and the he couldn’t see her do to the room being so dark
I agree the ending wasn’t the best. But it was a couple signs. Her coldness and demeanor. Her not calling 911 for an hour when her mom died. I had a feeling she was the one who truly did it. And her non caring about anything that doesn’t involve her own personal work
We get to see Sarah's internal dialog throughout the book. We get to hear her thoughts and feelings. I feel like the author intentionally misdirected the readers through the internal dialog of Sarah. Why would she be surprised in her head by things she already knew? Why would she be wondering if she could work things out or if her marriage is over if that was never an actual question to her? Why would she say in her thoughts that she plans on divorcing her husband after the trial when we later learn that this was far from her actual plan? The author lied to the reader through Sarah in order to create a plot twist. People say that they had no clue that the twist was going to happen. They had no clue because the narrative directly contradicted it.
I had guessed in the begging that she did it.. but, it didn’t make sense. Because of all of the points you made. And as my roommate likes to say, “it’s not a twist, it a lie”
Just finished the book 20 minutes ago, I loved how she lost the case on purpose. I liked the dark turn, he was incredibly self centered and the root of his character was linked to his weaknesses. Sarah from the very beginning was calculating, smarter than him, and in the end she felt angry internally but played the long game.
I think the novel is more sinister due to the fact her violence was deep under the surface.
I just finished this 10 min ago and can completely agree with you.
I love that you’re saying I love a good twist all with beautiful twists in your hair. Couldn’t help but notice 😅
Ya I agree…like I get that she wanted a plot twist but the whole half of the book we are following Sarah’s character and rooting for her….and it never hinted at her being completely evil….and the whole time we are rooting for her to win the case and then to find out that she loses it and that he gets the death penalty…like the ending made me sad
I never rooted for her, she’s a terrible person. Adam was kinda annoying, but despite him being a cheater, I actually felt for him the most. I knew she was an evil bitch, but damnnnnn
I want to go back and reread Sarah’s internal monologue cus now that I think about it she was more concerned about that dna than who actually killed homegirl
I did not enjoy this ending. But it was for sure different. I think the reason I’m struggling with it is more so the fact that Adam was innocent. Sarah was for sure sick to go through all this and have him pay for a crime he didn’t do. But I will say looking back there were signs of her being off.
I just read this book and the ending left a bad taste in my mouth. Adam was a POS but he didnt deserve that. I felt like i was mislead. The ending felt cheap to me. Ill be sticking to my historical romances.
100%
Sis. Girl! Why did I say all the stuff you said? My 20 year old daughter recommended this book to me and I said almost all what you said. She kept telling me I was dumb or whatever, thank you for proving my point.
My 1st book of this kind. Sarah is a stone cold killer. She killed her mother, Kelly, and Adam! 😂
I didn’t love this book. The dialogue was cringey, it dragged and pulled a lot of unnecessary characters in , then the verdict being cutoff and she like “Oh, Yea… it was me” made me dislike it. Frieda did the same BS with Never Lie and it didn’t hit for me, it was like a cop out. The comments defending this book is hilarious, just because it was flat for us, doesn’t mean come tell everybody how wrong we are . Happy it worked for yall.
His spoiled, drunken, cheating self, messed up her happy home, let his mother stomp on her in those Chanel heels, tried to knock her up and mess up her career because his was failing and after fatherhood flopped as hard as his writing he would have let with half of HER money… no he got what he got.
It was so nice of Sarah to act as surrogate for Matthew and his partner☺️
You sound like the kind of person who screams "girlboss!!!" everytime a female psychopath gets away with murder.
@@enriquesanchez9016 and do😌 Boys have Marvel & DC.
Girls have unhinged female revenge novels🤷🏾♀️
I spit on your grave had 3 remakes. Men watched silent and transfixed during the brutal gang rape scenes. Yet cringed and moaned in sympathy as the rapist got the same brutality. Surely these men weren’t empathizing with the villains 🤔
But it’s all fantasy right? Not that deep…
@@tyturner7110 That's not something to be proud of.
@@enriquesanchez9016 exactly, yet here we are, with a new Joker movie every few years… or is it only okay for men to root for the villain in unhinged revenge fantasies?
it seemed like such an extreme way to get rid of someone and not have them take half of your money. i guess thats the point and shows you how “off” she is. i get he was a dick and had it coming to him but this seems like alot
Exactly! The twist didn’t make sense and it made me hate the whole thing 😂
Also absolutely at no point in time ever is a wife aloud to defend their spouse in court. That's called a conflict of interest. Good but not good enough.
100% agree. The twist was so dumb. It's not plausible at all. WTF was that ending? I felt cheated by that ending. Everything up until that point was pointing to Adam being the one that did it but blacked out, and that's why he didn't remember. I need a better ending. 😩
The ending was super confusing to me too. There was absolutely zero connection between Sarah throughout the story and Sarah at the end. I felt it was too convenient and not well thought out. I think it would have been better with ANYONE else than Sarah. Deputy Hudson was the logical and obvious suspect so the ending probably wouldn’t work with him. If the book was cut short where Bob started to become suspicious and turned out to be him, it would’ve worked better for me.
I also had an issue with the narrative about Kelly when there was the third set of DNA in her. Before any suspicions of rape was brought up, the book immediate painted her as a whore, and Anne literally said Kelly got around. If that’s the way she wants the characters to be fine - but there was no follow-up to discuss slut shaming, which tells me a lot about the author’s own biases that had led her to have written so unintentionally.
It’s fiction and unfair to pair what’s FICTION to an author’s true feelings!
It was disturbing! I totally agree
I’m mad! I just feel bad for Adam. Sarah was cold and never love him. Disappointed!!!!!
Wait wasn't he cheating on her, why should she care about him lol
Just read this the ending tho I just don’t know how to feel I don’t think it made sense
Huh say whatever you want that man totally deserved that ending, i love female character like her
No he didn't deserve that
@@Undisputed00 he did, absolutely hate men like him
I think that is the point of the writer to get to feel blind sided and confused I read the book in one sitting and thought it was great! I suspected Anne for some reason lol and I felt that she knew that her husband had been cheating on her… she is calculated and very intelligent… she reacted to calmly to the murder and cheating… trying to act strong for what?! So yeah it was sus
Matthew def knew but he was her friend
Not a girl or a guy that likes guys, but my friend told me to read this and my name is Adam😂.. but agreed there is allot about this book that needs a better editor.
Sarah was just a bad broken person!
I listened to the audiobook and I was kind of annoyed like really ? Also if you think Adam sounds cringey; whomever narratored for him sounded like a whole ICK 😅
It’s written like she’s an unreliable narrator. I feel like that’s the point, right?
It's not quite the same. Unreliable narrators tell their version of the story in an altered way, and often this creates an interesting second read, as the story gets recontextualized when everything is revealed.
This story is different. The story isn't warped through Sarah's point of view. She directly lies to the reader on multiple occasions. It would be different if the book was written in a way that she was the author and lying to us by writing lies into her book, but this story is told from multiple first person accounts. We get to see what she is thinking. Why would someone act confused in their own head when they know what's going on? Why would she think all of those misleading things in her own head? She wasn't an unreliable narrator. The author used her point of view to lie to the reader and make it seem like she had nothing to do with it, just to create a cheap twist. If you reread this book with the knowledge that she was the killer, then half of the thoughts that she had, wondering what is going on, suspecting others as the killer, reacting to new information that she already knew,.. all of that no longer makes sense. It would be different If we were never let into her head, but we were. This narrative does not make sense.
totally agree, ending was ass
I enjoyed your review, but please is all the cursing and unflattering jargon necessary. Tone it down!