⭐️⭐️ out of 5 stars

A book about people I kinda wanna slap. HARD.

𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫: Marissa & Matthew are the Golden Couple – the one everyone wants to be. Until Marissa reveals infidelity and they seek out Avery, a 10-session highly -sought-after “therapist” to patch the marriage. Oh, then everything goes completely cray-cray.

💡𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: I may be a bit (𝐀. 𝐋𝐎𝐓.) over the domestic poor-beautiful-rich-chick-with-problems-she-causes-herself-boo-hoo thriller books that I’m eye rolling this one hard. VERY. Hard.

I need to write a book where Karens get their comeuppance. Now THAT is a novel idea (ba-dum-dum-tssss!) Besides the eye rolling on the continuous descriptions of HOW BEAUTIFUL this couple is (and who cares?), my issue with the book is that the plot is utterly predictable. When left with two possible suspects on the “could be guilty” board, it’s not that hard.

Nah, I’m just getting sick of reading about “perfect life” people who (yawn) have pesky murders to deal with and oooh what time SHALL I check on my boutique? I can’t possibly relax for my massage today! Ugh… please stop. Maybe it’s my middle-class showing, but I’m over it. Don’t care about these people with their oh-so-(not)-tough lives suddenly realizing it’s all crap. Oh and there’s a murder thrown in.

The writing was adept, which salvaged a 2 star firmly putting this in the “just ok” bin for me.

𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆𝗠𝗮𝗴𝘀.𝗰𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

📚𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞: Domestic Thriller/Mystery

😍𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨: If this genre is your bag, this one is so mainstream you’ll j’adore it!

🙅‍♀️ 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨: Those so over the rich protagonist domestic thriller trope. Though please join me in cringing.

Thank you to the author, NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for my advanced copy in exchange for my always-honest review and for my temper tantrum and still approving me for ARCs because I AM honest, right?