June 12, 2021
Wowza! We have a real genius author in literature town who made me truly gobsmacked, speechless! I’m sucker punched, paralyzed, sitting on the floor( because the author pulled out from under me) and raising my glass for true intelligence, creative, unique, extremely original writing style!
Yes, my friends, this underrated, hidden gem earned my five gazillion you fooled me twice and shame on me stars!
The story starts in high school, two popular lacrosse team members raped a private school girl who is drunk, passed out at the front seat of a car and after getting bullied for months, she committed suicide but she survived. At least that is the part of Alice’s story: she is the girl who has been mentally and psychically abused. Only one person stands for her: Haley: successful runner, skilled writer, golden girl of the school.
The other narrator of the story was Nick, struggling to keep his scores high at lacrosse team, friend of two accused rapers ( Max and Richard), having long time crush on Hailey. Richard is his childhood friend dreaming of going to Naval Academy, mostly a decent guy, concentrating on his future. Nick choses him over Hailey who is advocating Alice’s rights and declares a war against them. He gives statement to the police, lying for Richard and the case closes.
After 15 years later, the things didn’t work well for Alice who survived from a toxic and dangerously abusive relationship and now she wants to make documentary about the events about her assault which will open a lot of cans of worms, needing help of Hailey’s filmmaking and entrepreneurship skills.
And 15 years later, things also don’t go smoothly for Nick either. He is alcoholic, suffering from hallucinations, broke, chased by past demons. Now he learns he has a daughter and he needs to find alimony money ASAP to be part of their lives.
The documentary project brings out those so called friends together. Richard tries to shut the production and he needs Nick’s help. But Nick still has second thoughts if his friend has told him the whole truth.
The story is told by two inaccurate narrators who are mostly drunk, sedated, suffering from psychological problems. We don’t know who’s lying or who is telling the whole truth! You gotta give your attention!
And there are remarkable essay pages and most entertaining B horror screenplay examples which I enjoyed a lot.
And the final twist was impeccably well developed and extremely clever!
If you want to read something mind numbing, different, gripping with flawed and broken but still connectable characters, this addictive, unputdownable, dazzling novel will satisfy all your literature thirst!
Don’t have second thoughts to add your humongous TBR and enjoy your reading!
Yes, my friends, this underrated, hidden gem earned my five gazillion you fooled me twice and shame on me stars!
The story starts in high school, two popular lacrosse team members raped a private school girl who is drunk, passed out at the front seat of a car and after getting bullied for months, she committed suicide but she survived. At least that is the part of Alice’s story: she is the girl who has been mentally and psychically abused. Only one person stands for her: Haley: successful runner, skilled writer, golden girl of the school.
The other narrator of the story was Nick, struggling to keep his scores high at lacrosse team, friend of two accused rapers ( Max and Richard), having long time crush on Hailey. Richard is his childhood friend dreaming of going to Naval Academy, mostly a decent guy, concentrating on his future. Nick choses him over Hailey who is advocating Alice’s rights and declares a war against them. He gives statement to the police, lying for Richard and the case closes.
After 15 years later, the things didn’t work well for Alice who survived from a toxic and dangerously abusive relationship and now she wants to make documentary about the events about her assault which will open a lot of cans of worms, needing help of Hailey’s filmmaking and entrepreneurship skills.
And 15 years later, things also don’t go smoothly for Nick either. He is alcoholic, suffering from hallucinations, broke, chased by past demons. Now he learns he has a daughter and he needs to find alimony money ASAP to be part of their lives.
The documentary project brings out those so called friends together. Richard tries to shut the production and he needs Nick’s help. But Nick still has second thoughts if his friend has told him the whole truth.
The story is told by two inaccurate narrators who are mostly drunk, sedated, suffering from psychological problems. We don’t know who’s lying or who is telling the whole truth! You gotta give your attention!
And there are remarkable essay pages and most entertaining B horror screenplay examples which I enjoyed a lot.
And the final twist was impeccably well developed and extremely clever!
If you want to read something mind numbing, different, gripping with flawed and broken but still connectable characters, this addictive, unputdownable, dazzling novel will satisfy all your literature thirst!
Don’t have second thoughts to add your humongous TBR and enjoy your reading!