(pg 234 for full quote)
pub: 2020
pgs: 325
heard: feb 15-17, 2022
book: 7 in 2022
THOUGHTS
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well, if you are a fan of one of us is lying by karen mcmanus then this might be the book for you.
Richard throws a fancy ass 50th, invites only the dearest of his friends and then ends up dead. and the entire time i could have swooooooorn it was the octopus, Persephone, that did it. i think i would have been down with that ending for sure. i mean, its all make believe anyway, why not add a dash of 'fuck it' element to the pot?
anyway, this is told thru Elspeth, his ex-wife. even though they havent spoken in years, she was invited out of the blue to his party and the bitch said yes because her daughter was gunna go with her (there's more to this and its not a spoiler, not a huge one, but i dont wanna be a dick so ill leave it at this).
man, if my exmans was a dirty ass son of a bitch i dont give a fuck if the pope hand delivered the invitation himself!, why. would. you. go?
so then yea, the party, the guests, Els doesnt know them all but there are a few she knows. the party starts, it gets lit and even though she never shuts the fuck up about how she's going to leave in 5 minutes, she never does. and then boom, the next morning, Richard is dead.
and in the end, well, i like the ending. i like to think that what *removed cus spoilery* says is actually true. i like the way it all ties up if what they says is indeed true. its perfect! its karma! its beautiful! because it could have gone soooooooooooo many ways! and in the end, for me, it went the perfect way.
if you choose to fuck with people just because you can, my girl karma will take care of you because its what she does.
that being said yes, i like the ending and what *removed cus spoilery* says but i think thats about it?
i feel like i was in and out a lot with this one. i wasnt super invested? it starts out in the present and then we flashback and forth between the past and present the further we get into the book - well i wont spoil it here but fucking Elspeth! ahhh! to think that she did what she did, well. both of those things that she did...well, bitch did a lot. ....and richard. well, im not at all saying that he deserved to die but i mean, you were a fucking piece of shit idiot, you got what you got. it was your turn to pay the price for all the horrible things that you did.
also, in the end, i wasnt really a fan of Elspeth and the way she had to think about "it" like she couldnt just do the homies a solid from the get go. you were dirty for that one dude. everyone was dirty but shes over here acting all high and mighty. girl, please. bye.
the only reason i picked this one up was because i liked the cover and i know a Tess lol. im not mad that i heard it but its something that i think i could have gone without because really this is OOUIL with like a bit of a twist. and so yeah, cheers to book 6 i guess. onto the next! (Edit: Oh wait this is 7!)
heads up, idk if its Sonny or Sunny and i think i call him both names.
im horrible.
i know.
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LMAO!!!!! its is not Sonny or Sunny.
ITS HONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
(still not going back to change anything thooooo)
Richard invites only 9 guests to basically i guess test them and if they failed, then anyone of them was to be framed for it.
he throws this swanky party, everybody gets lit to the point of no return and in the morning its Elspeth who finds him dead. from there on, well theyre all a suspect.
in the end, it was no one that killed him but basically all of them except Sonny (richards lovah), Elspeth (the ex) and homgirl whose name i forgot (Kei's girlfriend). the reason i say this is because Richard was choking on his vomit and Kei woke up and saw him and she technically could have saved him but she said fuck it along with everyone else. sonny and elspeth were passed out and Kei's gf had woken up and was about to help but Kei held her back. they all pretended to go back to sleep and let Elspeth find her.
richard had invited every single person for a reason. he invited them to basically insert his power over all of them. he'd been a horrible human, husband, employer, everything. he'd fired his best friend, made Kei's life a living hell (actually every cast members), he made elspeth a star, gave her a role and had her raped on stage with a gun and was never told it was going to happen. he was just a horrible human.
through out the night they kept imbibing to the point of no return. they got to a point that they were playing a game where they were trying to see who could shove a bottle down their throat (fucking rich white people 🙄) the hardest? or idfk but there was throat bottle shoving involved. so of course thats looked into as the cause of the vomit that caused richards death. and the cops happen to find a bottle that fit the description that was covered in Tommo's fingerprints (they were high school friends. we later on learn these two motherfuckers were horrible af to their classmates. i believe they killed one of their classmates. the classmate was allergic to strawberries but these foos thought it was a game so they put some in his cake and he passed away from that. (pg 234) they were both interrogated but Richard took the blame because he came from the kind of family/money that gets away with everything. ever since then theyve been tied together. and i forgot why shit went south with them.
anyway....
Kei's theory: her theory was that well, i forgot most of it or why she came up with it but basically the theory is that Richard wanted to see if anyone in the party would come to his rescue when he was choking on his vomit. he was playing with his own life because he was so cocky that someone would rescue him. for sure the mother of his daughter right? or at least his lover? WHOM HE HAS BEEN GROOMING SINCE HE WAS 17 BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH ELSPETH KNEW WHAT HE WAS CAPABLE OF, IF SHE WASNT DEALING WITH HIM, IT WASNT HER BUSINESS. and of course when Sonny finally came out with allegations, she denied them all.
anyway, yea he was that confident.
and if he died, well, he had planted incriminating evidence of a bottle with Tommos fingerprints. ....remember how i was like "fucking white people and their deep throating bottle shit"? this is why!
THOUGH! the thing that is kinda unsure for me was if Richard meant to frame Tommo all along. because Els had a water bottle and Richard gave her so much shit for drinking water and the next thing you know the water bottle is gone. the one with Tommos prints was hidden behind the tank where they kept Persephone. it was hella wedged in there.
if the cops were hella good at their job and other bottles had been planted wouldnt they have also been found? what happened to Elspeths water bottle?
idk, but thats basically it.
there's other things i left out but you know how i work.
thx4rdnluvu!
NOTES
this is new maybe? idk. i wont do it all the time. sometimes i take notes bc theyre library books so i figured i should move them on here if i have any/want to. they might hekp. idk.
pg 278 - richard abusing elspeth on film with camera (see also pg 283)
pg 280 - tommo not guilty
pg 297 - physical abuse. slaps her on their honeymoon
pg 307-310 - beginning of Kei's confession
pg 193 - this book reminds me of karen mcmanus & lucy foley (the hunting party)
pg 232 - v karen mcmanus. once again 🤣
pg 298- the explanation of the name sedgewick.
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