📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Pretty Things
AUTHOR: Janelle Brown
@janellebrownie
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: April 21, 2020
https://amzn.to/3dwfZQt
I am a new reader of Janelle Brown. Her style is concise and the pieces of story she reveals is enough to keep you guessing in a many ways. This book told the story of a girl who was given a chance to enact a con on a family who wronged her. Additionally it is about an heiress who turns out to be more flawed than her Instagram lets on.
What I can say about this book is that while none of the characters are in “good” on the surface (be it vapid or criminal) the trip you take to discover who they are really gives you a sense of empathy for most of them. That (and the twist ending) surprised me more than I thought it would.
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Small Summary:
Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in L.A. alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan. Nina learned from the best: Her mother was the original con artist, hustling to give her daughter a decent childhood despite their wayward life. But when her mom gets sick, Nina puts everything on the line to help her, even if it means running her most audacious, dangerous scam yet.
Vanessa is a privileged young heiress who wanted to make her mark in the world. Instead she becomes an Instagram influencer—traveling the globe, receiving free clothes and products, and posing for pictures in exotic locales. But behind the covetable façade is a life marked by tragedy. After a broken engagement, Vanessa retreats to her family’s sprawling mountain estate, Stonehaven: a mansion of dark secrets not just from Vanessa’s past, but from that of a lost and troubled girl named Nina.
Nina’s, Vanessa’s, and Lachlan’s paths collide here, on the cold shores of Lake Tahoe, where their intertwined lives give way to a winter of aspiration and desire, duplicity and revenge.
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I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.