Lovely Girls: A Thriller

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Both Beautiful Girls and October Road take place in the fictional Massachusetts town of Knight's Ridge, and have similar characters, jobs, plot lines.

Kate has an uneasy feeling about the girls, wondering whether they’re “predatory,” but she’s afraid to voice her concerns because she has become friends with the girls’ mothers, having ignored warnings that the women are vicious and take pride in raising bullies. with her 17-year-old daughter, Alex, who’s been depressed since her father, Ed, died in a recent car accident. Margot Hunt is a USA TODAY best selling author of BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, FOR BETTER AND WORSE and THE LAST AFFAIR.It would be difficult (for me) to say that any of them were particularly likeable, even the non-villains were a bit flat in their personality flushing out, however I gobbled them up with the same vigor in which I watch Grey's Anatomy trainwrecking its way though its 19th season. Yet things quickly start to go wrong as Alex immediately finds herself on the wrong side of the mean girl clique at school, whilst her mother has befriended their mothers. I was pretty confident this would be a three star read until the last chapter and the way it ended makes me want to bump it up a half star.

I was still on board since I love a catty neighborhood - especially one poised on the brink of chaos with a powder keg in development. Mean girls grow up to be mean moms with mean daughters in this entertaining domestic thriller from Hunt ( The Last Affair). Jokes aside I am happy to have delved in to the world of the most awful women ever and relieved that I don't have anyone that toxic in my real life. You will enjoy it, you will scratch your head wondering how a town could act this way, you will root for people and then raise your eyebrow at their actions, you will wonder how it will all play out.And let's not forget the book was supposed to be a thriller but there was nothing thrilling about it, no shocking plot twists. Margot Hunt does what she does so well, imperceptibly ramping up the tension and suspense in this dramatic and well-paced novel. Willie chastises Paul about his obsession with supermodels; he responds that beautiful girls represent hope and promise. The dresses they feel the need to don are bodycon, unlike the duo’s natural choice: flowy shirts, baggy trousers.

In this chilling story from the bestselling author of The Secret Mother, it’s the wedding day of Alice’s dreams. Kate soon becomes friends with a group of women while Alex starts to immediately have trouble with their daughters. Unfortunately Alex immediately gets on the wrong side of the popular girls who vow to make her life miserable. From Perfectly Impossible author Elizabeth Topp comes an unforgettably searing novel about a band of mothers who are forced to reckon with themselves after the unexpected loss of one of their own. Her characters are, for the most part, engaging and either likeable heroes and supporting characters or detestable villains.

It kicks off right from the jump with a dead body, but you don’t find out who said corpse is until Part II, and the rest of the time is spent figuring out whodunit.