Acquire Today We Were Never Here Drafted By Andrea Bartz Disseminated As Paperbound
the premise, feel kinda meh about the execution towards the end, How the book resulted felt like the easy way out, which makes it unfortunately predictable, The story was definitely more fun when I projected sapphic feelings in the first/lol This left me speechless, Andrea Bartz.
. . Wow!! We Were Never Here!! Cross reference this with themovie "Single White Female" and themovie "The Bad Seed" If you love psychological thrillers, then you will devour this chilling one.
Emily and Kristen have been traveling the world together as close friends, These adventures connect them with some of the most unique places making memories along the way, Last year a tragic and traumatic event in Columbia left Emily wishing she could erase her memory.
She is haunted from a backpacker attacking her in a hotel room, Was it self defense that left him dead with Kristen's help The right thing would be to call the police, but in a foreign country they decided against it referring to the Amanda Knox story.
A year later, same scenario in Chili, except Emily walks into a bloody scene in their hotel room with a young backpacker dead in the room with Kristen.
Not again twice
I felt like I was wearing a vice while reading it, I couldn't breathe Singing Miranda Lambert's song "Vice" while reading this one
", . . When it hurts this good you gotta play it twice, . . "
"Another vice, another town
Where my past can't run me down, . . "
It doesn't take long to process Kristen is a controlling, manipulative frenemy, Emily has always clung to her needing a close friend until she meets Aaron who is slowly pulling her away from Kristen.
As you sink into this one, get ready for a jealous betrayal of friendship with some chilling amp haunting secrets surfacing in each chapter.
Encountering exploitation and gaslighting, you can't prepare for that ending, This book is well orchestrated! I'm like the Peter Pan of being unpleasant,
I have a sort of whimsy to me, I never want to grow up, I am naturally suited to leading a ragtag group of people younger than me I was a camp counselor for many years.
And also I am a huge hater,
In other words, I had to read this book for a workplace book club, and I hated it both because it's not good and because I abhor grownup activities of any kind.
But I'll try to focus on the book, Seeing as this is a "review of it" and all,
This shindig involves some truly stunningly bad writing,
This book doesn't understand its own characters some, if not most, of these actions have no explanation whatsoever.
When the story ends and it's wrap up loose ends time, there is both a moment in which our narrator literally says the bad guy's actions are inexplicable, AND a moment when she destroys her own characterization.
In fact, the ending is so bad, so immoral, so unintentionally convincing of our main character's soullessness and her stupid boyfriend's, that it made me consider other more interesting plot points, like me killing all of them in the first crossfiction murder spree in history.
The single most readable bit in the whole thing is when it accidentally implies a plot twist that would create a story line approximately,times more interesting than the one we actually have, and even though in any other context I would have thought it was lame I gasped with joy and gratitude.
But no. It was just misleading.
If only.
Bottom line: Everything is bad,
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reading this for my work book club, this is the most adult thing i have ever done
update: being an adult is the worst.
review to come /I feel stupider for having read this book, I pushed past some truly atrocious prose “my insides tumbled like concrete,” “his clothes formed a casserole by his body” because the setup and first few chapters were actually pretty promising.
What follows is a sloppy patchwork of cliches including a toxic female best friend with a sketchy past involving mysterious deaths, a Gone Girl style scavenger hunt of coded messages to taunt/blackmail the MC, etc and exposition heavy scenes that test the readers patience.
Its painfully obvious what is really going on and waiting for Emily to catch up is laborious and repetitive.
Emily is all, You mean my friend who killed two guys and ditched their bodies and shows no remorse or worry over getting caught might not be who I thought she was! shocked Pikachu face The final pages are just ridiculous.
Worst book Ive read all year, Every year best friends since college Emily amp kirstin go on a backpacking holiday around the world for six months this time its Cambodia amp Chile, they meet two unlucky backpackers.
They find themselves in a desperate situation amp somehow they need to get rid of the body.
Kirstin amp Emily ttry to tell the hotel they are staying in what happened but nobody speaks English.
They need to hide the body amp quick or is it two they sing a song while thinking hi ho hi ho we are off to bury two bodies we go from here on the plot gets so insane with twists amp turns at every corner i absolutely loved this book i could not put this down it was addictive , compelling amp slightly manic at times Loved the character of Emily she was like a puppet who followed Kirstins every word, this was a first read by Andrea Bartz but will not be my last.
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If you are a believer of the theory,
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Well then this most definitely is NOT the story for you.
You see, you have to believe that two lifelong friends who go on an annual trip to some exotic locale have killed and disposed of not one but TWO rapey fellas and gotten away with it on backtoback vacays.
Are you still with me Its Aokay to know We Were Never Here is going to be above your limitations.
But if youre like me sometimes and you are well aware that the thing you might need most in your life is a little.
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You might be able to force your brain to just go with it.
If you can do that I think youll find Emily and Kristens long strange trip to be a hell of a fun time.
Not to mention the very last page,
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After attempting to swear off Reese's Book Club picks, this was my second winner in a row.
I think it's safe to say I'm officially back on the auto request bandwagon for her choices.
An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd.
Emily is having the time of her lifeshe's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever.
But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor.
Kristen says the cute backpacker she'd been flirting with attacked her, and she had no choice but to kill him in selfdefense.
Even more shocking: The scene is horrifyingly similar to last year's trip, when another backpacker wound up dead.
Emily can't believe it's happened againcan lightning really strike twice
Back home in Wisconsin, Emily struggles to bury her trauma, diving headfirst into a new relationship and throwing herself into work.
But when Kristen shows up for a surprise visit, Emily is forced to to confront their violent past.
The more Kristen tries to keep Emily close, the more Emily questions her friend's motives, As Emily feels the walls closing in on their coverups, she must reckon with the truth about her closest friend.
Can she outrun the secrets she shares with Kristen, or will they destroy her relationship, her freedomeven her life
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.stars. This book was hard to put down, but some of the situations and nonself awareness drove me bonkers! The twist revealed at the end annoyed me too.
Not quite sure it's feasible, Regardless, a fast paced and entertaining summer read! All right, here are the facts: I enjoyed the Herd and at the beginning I thought this book was truly giving me five alert! Two traveling friends two murders they got away with Amanda Knox meets Heathers, Single White Female and Girl interrupted vibes of obsessive female friendship is intriguing and dreamy formula for my huge thriller appetite!
But.
. . yes this could have been five starred read for me even though the opening was a little wordy but also contained impressive analysis of both characters and their dysfunctional, needy relationship! Emily was the shy, obedient, insecure woman is about to be, suffering from trust issues after dating with demanding, possessive men!
Thankfully her best friend Kristen: her polar opposite, independent, good looking, free spirited, risk taker, dominant woman was always at her side after her breakups or her sexual assault actually she was the witness of the assault helped her bury the body !!!!
Emily is still jittery and suffering from panic attacks after Cambodia incident yes, she got rid of the guy who tried to rape her and Kristen was there to cover her tracks and when she agreed to go to Chile mountains but instead of drinking wine and enjoying scenery, she finds herself at another murder scene again!! This time Kristen is rape victim who sits on a blood bath, needing urgent help of
her bestie to get rid of the corpse! Well, lightning doesnt strike twice and less than five years being in two different crime scenes is a little suspicious.
Wake up Emily! Your bestie already started to give me creeps!
Those girls get away with murder again and Emily returns back to her home, getting serious with her new boyfriend thankfully Kristin hasnt met him yet.
Because Im sure she may find a way to force Emily break things up with him but wait a minute why Kristin bangs Emilys door.
Wasnt she in Australia Wait a minute! Did she buy a new apartment at the next block of Emily Whattt! And why she cannot stop mentioning their Chili trip in front of everyone and how she orchestrated her surprise birthday to spend entire weekend at a cabin out of nowhere with no cell reception! Oh, Emily wake the hell up! This girl is bad news and youre about to be cheesy murder material for evening news!
Well, I have to admit: writing and characterization were great but it was way tooooo long.
At leastpages can be emitted! When I reach at the last third I thought this book will never end.
I wanted to scream at the characters to cut the crap and give us a proper conclusion of their stories but finally they gave it this is such a relief
I still have good feelings about this book because Im always a great fan of wild crazy bitch girls fight and I keep saying oh no she cannot dare to that, oops she did it, didnt she kind of tense, expect the unexpected reads about how far obsessive women go! I loved the idea and character building and I went back and forth betweenand!
If it wasnt for Andrea Bartz, I could give three without thinking any further! But I still enjoyed the cat fight of so called best friends and Im rounding up.
toKristin was batshit crazy Siamese twin of Jennifer Jason Leigh on single white female!
Special thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group/ Ballentine for sharing this gripping digital copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.
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