"just because something ends doesn't mean it didn't have value."
pub: 2020
pages: 308
heard: 8/23-24/2021
book: 28 in 2021
SYNOPSIS
THOUGHTS
well i went into this one not having read the synopsis so i genuinely had no idea what to expect but i figured it was something along the lines of "he's guna try to fuck her over but she's guna end up on top in the end" and whadaya know? i was right?
THOUGHTS
well i went into this one not having read the synopsis so i genuinely had no idea what to expect but i figured it was something along the lines of "he's guna try to fuck her over but she's guna end up on top in the end" and whadaya know? i was right?
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its now 5/1/2022 and i probably wrote that around the time that i had finished the book; here we are now months later.
i sort of remember the story but what i do remember the most is that i still feel like this is very "meh" of Swanson. i had to go back to my post about this and apparently i liked it but the end left me very over it. like it fucked with me (maybe because i went into this one blind) but it ended bland. his last few books have just not been it for me.
this one wasnt bad. its just all that just to end like that?
idk.
over it. just tryina get all my posts out.
i still love swanson tho! (luckily i got all the spoilers out! good job, me!)
SPOILERS
well i guess the biggest thing would be that Bruce is the bad guy.
essentially he is part of this club of a bunch of sad whiny bitchy men who bonded over torturing women that have done them wrong. (bruce's mom left them when he was a kid and apparently it fucked him up a whole lots).
the fucked up part is that they're the ones that set them up for failure in the first place.
like Abigail.
she randomly met this dude (the dude being Bruce) who asked her out to dinner and on the 3rd date told her "hey ya know what kid, you're the one for me even though i've never even heard you fart." and they get engaged and he's all "yo, have a bachelorette party....why noooottt.... ill set it up! and pay for everything." and of course he did.
and of course she goes.
but he also had "Scotty" (really Eric Newman) there to test her loyalty which of course she fails cause scotty beams her up if you know what i mean.
scotty "stalks" her telling her they belong together but she's all "nah, fool."
she marries bruce.
they go on their honeymoon to an island with -0 service and -0 isnt a thing so do the math. and on the first night there, homeboy doesn't even try to sleep with her. she's all whatever.
anyway, guess who is also there?
yep.
scotty.
and this dumb bitch still thinks its a coincidence. like bro.
turns out they were aaaaaaallllll in on it.
while on their honeymoon they run into the only other couple there, Alec & Jill and because im over this shit already, jill is there because Alec lured her there because she lied about being a virgin but he was also linked up with Porter who was at some point in his life engaged to jill herself but she was also set up by him with a bartender. (damn. poor girl got set up twice! by two different dudes in the same club. what are the odds?)
anyway, theres one night where ab & bruce are asleep when she hears something by the window. she goes to check and notices it was jill and she was bleeding badly. ab goes out after her but she loses her in the woods. ab goes back and tells bruce, they go to the lobby and the dude in charge of the place, Chip (i should note that of course bruce has monies in on this too) tells them that its impossible because he himself took them to the airport so they could leave home.
they bullshit her so bad. like they didnt even try.
in the end, she ends up telling bruce that she knows something is off, they fight, they pretend theyre on their way to the airport thing when Scotty (by this point in the book he's known by his real name) is all no, you and me only, im not letting Bruce take you, blah, blah, blah, all the men are in on it, they drug her, she ends up in a room with Jill, they tell each other their stories more in depth or whatever.
in the end, they come around to like a bonfire and there's men wearing masks and theyre taunting both women stating that they are whores and theres a part where bruce & alec are asked if they are ready and bruce pretends to stab Ab.
alec was supposed to pretend too but he ends up beating Jill with a rock or something.
Ab manages to get away and hides in the closet in their own bunk. her thought process was that no one would suspect that she'd go back there. but in the closet bruce had there was a hidewaway that gave her enough space to not get caught.
she debates killing him, decides not to because she wants to get away, ends up killing him, shooting scotty, killing some other dude and getting away in a kayak (and ive just learned that we have all been saying that word wrong!). when she finally crosses the ocean, water, lake, whatever the fuck (which now that i think about it, im surprised someone didnt go after her in the water?) runs into an old dude and calls the cops.
she manages to tell her story and bruce's messy ass story comes to light.
assuming they didn't seize all his money, she just made a pretty penny because he didn't make her sign a prenup.
oh, and it turns out that sposably eric, scotty, whatever killed his wife. which given that he belongs to this group, its believable.
and thats it.
in the end she notices that eric was in fact at her wedding.
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