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I prefer the alternate ending cuz it does answer a few questions except her telling Cassie to dump Joel id have to read her reasoning that make a convincing argument

+pacing
+unpredictable big twist
-Anna still being in Joels life is huh
-wuthering heights references, chill

I'd rec to casual thriller readers as a quick entertaining read if you need to kill some time

4*, don't come between a woman and her doctor

Okay wait. So apparently the physical book has a different ending than the audiobook, in the former Anna uses the tracking app she had for Joel on Lydia and sees her frequenting the bookstore and stalking Cassie, so she decides to finish what Lydia started and does the slut graffiti and poisons Cassie w peanuts framing Lydia, she tells Cassie to leave Joel so she ends up saying no to his proposal

It was an easy read w good pacing so it really wasn’t hard to just stay engaged cuz nothing spectacularly highbrow was occurring. I really had low expectations and they were exceeded so idk if that’s a good thing or not.

The actual ending where Cassie never tells on Anna is super weird, she got her happy ending she was obsessed with so she just doesn't want to ruin that? Too many secrets b/t Cassie/Joel

The ex not being F made sense cuz 1. She’s never named in her chapters and 2. The ex is clearly unreliable off the rip 3. The ex says she's less attractive than the new gf but everyone around called F so beautiful so either she has super insecurities or it’s a little lead for us in the right direction. The most confusing part was really that they were both Italians w good cooking skills and Deans name was a copout

It did have me having to really try and calculate a timeline here because Joel is 36 but he dated Anna for 10 years then Francesca for idk how long, a year off then met Cassie...

I actually figured Lydia was the harasser but I didn’t think the “new gf” were different ppl in the alternating POVs so that was a nice genuine surprise twist for me.

Now the twists, the first one with the Ex being Anna was great. The ex is never named in her chapters but Dean being her husband was stupid cuz he’s called Connie by some and Dean by others so it would’ve been a nice foreshadow if the naming were a littttttle less subtle than that nonsense

Joel is not giving “dream man” like 3 woman seem to believe, if anything I was more sold on Dean. He never defended Cassie when Lydia was being unreasonably mean to her and he really kept a lot of secrets from her like hey my ex died and I’m only just now recovering from it or hey Anna and I dated FOR 10 YEARS

Review:

A popcorn thriller that is wayyyyy better than her other book I read. I got it rec’d to me and I have to say I’m into it. It’s got the usual eye rolling parts of how obsessed these women are over a milquetoast doctor but at 1.5x speed it’s a perfect listen while I work. It is plot-driven cuz the characters are all pretty 1D w lackluster dialog

- Wait so Dean is from Chicago but doesn’t know how much a hotdog costs?? Ok….
- Honestly the most unbelievable thing is that Anna and Joel became friends a year later after she was lowk stalking him thru find my, like their last confrontation was NOT friendly

Anna slipped sleeping pills in Francesca’s wine that night, she left clues it was staged to frame Joel but it was ruled a suicide and thus the 3 ppl who wronged her got hurt: F, Lydia and Joel tho now she’s good w Joel but doesn’t want to be crossed again