I decide to make spaghetti because it’s European and I think I can manage it on my own. We don’t have anything in the kitchen except Mo‘t-dozens and dozens of bottles that Graham’s mother, Margo, keeps giving us, daring us to celebrate. I get so bored sometimes, I think I will do anything to stop it.
I didn’t get to know the dog much ahead of time so it didn’t bother me as much as it probably could have.
Still it will have fans for those who can get where the author was going with this. Dark and subversive, yet it doesn’t go quite far enough in that direction to make me really love it. Reminded me a lot of the movie Ready or Not. And what might happen if someone outside of that crowd entered their world. There’s really not a huge amount of plot overall if I’m honest.īut in the end, I thought it was a kind of tongue-very-far-in-cheek snarky tale about how the rich think they are so far above everyone else to the point they will do bizarre and shocking things to avoid being bored. There are a couple of decent twists and a plethora of unlikable characters.Īre there plot holes and things that are just unbelievable? Yes for sure. I appreciated the premise and I certainly didn’t dislike it as much as I did Brazier’s previous book. In a twist that neither woman sees coming, the game quickly devolves into chaos and rockets toward an explosive conclusion.īecause every good rich person knows: in money and in life, it’s winner take all. Even if you have to leave a few bodies behind. At the end of her rope, she seizes a risky opportunity to take over another person’s life and unwittingly becomes the subject of the upstairs couple’s wicked entertainment. But Demi has been struggling forever, and she’s not about to go down without a fight. After all, there is nothing worse than a bootstrapper.ĭemi has always felt like the odds were stacked against her. The wealthy couple invites self-made success stories to live in their guesthouse and then conspires to ruin their lives.
Lyla has always believed that life is a game she is destined to win, but her husband, Graham, takes the game to dangerous levels. This post contains affiliate links, see disclosures for more detail.Ī destitute woman deceives her way into the guesthouse of a Hollywood Hills mansion and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs in the next intoxicating novel from Eliza Jane Brazier. I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book, all opinions are my own. I think this is worth taking a chance on, and it also could make a good book club selection as it begs to be discussed. I didn’t think it quite went far enough, but I did like this book better than Brazier’s previous release, If I Disappear. It is a tongue in cheek satire, but also it is twisty and intriguing.
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