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Desolation
Six months ago, Bernie was just an average college student. She spent her weekends staging campus protests and gorging on burritos at El Taco Loco.
But when her mother died after a long battle with cancer, Bernie became convinced that the oil refinery near their home was responsible. The company is facing a major lawsuit, and at the epicenter of the scandal is Brian Bodetski — the wealthy, charismatic CEO.
Bernie is determined to avenge her mother’s death, but that determination quickly morphs into an obsession with ruining Mr. Bodetski’s life. To make him pay, she’ll have to get close to his family, break the law, and cross lines she never even imagined.
But when her mother died after a long battle with cancer, Bernie became convinced that the oil refinery near their home was responsible. The company is facing a major lawsuit, and at the epicenter of the scandal is Brian Bodetski — the wealthy, charismatic CEO.
Bernie is determined to avenge her mother’s death, but that determination quickly morphs into an obsession with ruining Mr. Bodetski’s life. To make him pay, she’ll have to get close to his family, break the law, and cross lines she never even imagined.
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Published January 1, 2017
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Tarah Benner
39 books349 followersTarah Benner is the author of more than 25 books, including Witches of Mountain Shadow, Mountain Shadow Mysteries, The Fringe, the Elderon Chronicles, the Lawless Saga, and more.
She lives and writes in sunny Colorado with her two dogs, a cat, a toddler, and her beloved partner in crime. When she’s not writing, she enjoys breakfast, hiking, yoga, and martial arts.
She lives and writes in sunny Colorado with her two dogs, a cat, a toddler, and her beloved partner in crime. When she’s not writing, she enjoys breakfast, hiking, yoga, and martial arts.
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February 21, 2022
I wanted to wait to leave a review to see if I felt better about this book than when I read it.
I do not, it was pure trash. I feel bad that the protagonists mother died of cancer but to decide to burn someones house down because you just FEEL like they could be responsible is insane. The way she went about it was idiotic at best and the writing was just stupid. At one point she convinces a security guard to let her in to the neighborhood claiming to be a nanny for the family, but then the next chapter you find out the kids are in college and not there. The guard who she convinced partially by saying "you know how she gets" would most likely know that the kids are in college if he knew the lady enough to agree with the earlier statement. That's just shoddy writing, not to mention that had she been there to be the nanny it would be unlikely that the people would leave their children at home alone when they left so the guard also would have found it odd that they would have done that. He also would definitely have called the client especially after the protagonist said you know how she gets, he would not want to lose his job for her.
I have never disliked a protagonist as much as I hated this one.
This part is a major spoiler maybe so if you want to torture yourself with this thinly veiled leftist eat the rich propaganda. At one point she is going around lighting the house on fire, she is nearly passing out from the gasoline fumes but goes room to room to light fires, she would have died!
In fairness no amount of brain damage she could have picked up would have affected her intelligence at all.
I do not, it was pure trash. I feel bad that the protagonists mother died of cancer but to decide to burn someones house down because you just FEEL like they could be responsible is insane. The way she went about it was idiotic at best and the writing was just stupid. At one point she convinces a security guard to let her in to the neighborhood claiming to be a nanny for the family, but then the next chapter you find out the kids are in college and not there. The guard who she convinced partially by saying "you know how she gets" would most likely know that the kids are in college if he knew the lady enough to agree with the earlier statement. That's just shoddy writing, not to mention that had she been there to be the nanny it would be unlikely that the people would leave their children at home alone when they left so the guard also would have found it odd that they would have done that. He also would definitely have called the client especially after the protagonist said you know how she gets, he would not want to lose his job for her.
I have never disliked a protagonist as much as I hated this one.
This part is a major spoiler maybe so if you want to torture yourself with this thinly veiled leftist eat the rich propaganda. At one point she is going around lighting the house on fire, she is nearly passing out from the gasoline fumes but goes room to room to light fires, she would have died!
In fairness no amount of brain damage she could have picked up would have affected her intelligence at all.
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