"why must people take what does not belong to them? why must they take what's hers and ruin it?"
pub: 2021
pgs: 306
read/heard: 11/2-8/2021
book: 31 in 2021
THOUGHTS
Ooooh this one was a doozy.
This one was just like her second book only just not as titillating (I just googled what that word means to make sure and lol. I don't mean it in the literal sense but the word just fits. 😅)
....anyway, this one was good.
Until I looked up spoilers and I think it both deflated me but somehow pumped me up to continue reading. I think it deflated me because the spoiler is simple. Who is the killer? But the story packs so. much. more. so I was like okay wtf u mean das it?
essentially it's the same as her second book: murder, find the killer but every character had issues so there was a lot more and of course they're all connected...
I think knowing helped me because I was paying attention to the story and I was trying to see where I could see clues. But I think knowing also wasn't a good idea because after finding out the killer I was like eh.
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this is part of the cleaning house series (me finally posting all my shit no matter what it looks like) so thats all there is but jump over for spoilers!
thanks for accepting any and all of my typos and knowing what i meant.
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SPOILERS
okay so since every character has some shit going on, ill just do it by names and see if i can connect it somehow.
the main spoiler of this entire story would be that the young man that was found murdered was Daniel. the murderer was his aunt, Carla.
DANIEL
he was killed by carla because she found a notebook in which he had drawn himself killing Ben by placing a little car by the balcony and pushing it just enough that it would fall over causing ben to go after it.
as soon as carla saw that, she saw red. she was just going to talk to him but she killed him instead.
MIRIAM
M was abducted along with her friend Lillian when they were teens. she made it out, L did not. supposedly the dude who held her hostage killed himself and they pronounced him dead and that was it. but she knew better.
she wrote down her story, gave it to Theo to read because she respected him. he took her story, stole and turned it into a world wide best seller so of course she has hated him since.
the night that Daniel was killed, she saw both Laura & Carla on his boat. she thought that Laura had done it but she was trying to frame Carla to make Theo pay for what he did. (she found Daniel the morning after he was killed. she called the cops. but not before taking laura's key that she had found on his floor covered in his blood)
throughout the story we get flashbacks or i guess glimpses into miriam's real life story, i think Theo's version (i dont think it was her version. tbh, i dont remember even paying attention to that detail. yikes!).
she has tried to sue Theo but has gotten nowhere since she has no money.
after Carla is caught (at the end of the story) Theo comes to Miriam's boat and tells her to leave him alone. she says she has no idea what he's talking about, he shows her the letters, she denies it and it turns out that Henry Carter, the dude writing to Theo, is actually the dude who abducted M & L all those years ago. he was mad at Theo for telling his story and making him look like a bitch. lol.
anyway, M tells Theo to get him down here and to cut the shit, Miriam ends up killing him im sure because the next day, he dead.
thats it for her.
oh yeah. this stupid bitch stole Theo's dog and decided to kill it by slitting its throat.
fuck her.
LAURA
L was in a really fucked up car accident as a kid.
turns out, she was coming home on her bike when her mom's lover ran her over basically fucking her whole life up.
the mom knew it was him and she covered for him. she told him to leave and told the cops she didnt know. he was later caught on tape and interviewed about it and basically outs himself when he asked "how is she doing?". the cops had never told him the sex of the kid in the accident.
the mom ended up leaving laura and her father for the same man that almost killed her daughter and to this day she still idolizes her mom even though she's a p.o.s.
her dad is another cunt. well, not him but his new wife. she's a mega bitch. hes an asshole for not defending his daugther.
because of the accident, laura has some developmental issues. she has a limp and is hypersexual (i think that was the word but dont quote me, i could be 100% wrong) she's just fucking down on her luck this entire book. paula was like here is all the shit in the world, lets leave it here with Laura and man. one thing after another.
she's at the bar that night. she meets daniel, they go back to his boat, they hook up and he insults her by telling her that he didn't think "gimp fucking" was his thing. this angers her and they fight, she leaves. she did leave her keys at his place. but honestly, that's just paula being paula because this was all wrong place, wrong time. (lol. i know its a story. let me be in my feels)
anyway, poor girl gets arrested and is almost tried til Theo decides to be Theo.
in the end, she's obvs not guilty and she ends up finally having a family/situation/deal/combo/home thing going on with Irene; she finally get's a family, a place to belong.
IRENE
Irene was Angela's neighbor and bff.
she likes to stop eating and shit so she can hallucinate and see her husband (her rip'd 6 years ago).
the night (day?) she met Laura she had locked herself out of her house, Laura came along and knocked on Angela's door thinking that was Irene's house and ended up actually finding Angela's body.
laura ends up being Irene's errand girl basically.
in the end, its irene that pieces it together and tells carla to get her shit together and take responsibility for what she did before letting Theo throw his life away for her.
the whole entire time we are led to believe that old people are useless and boom. look at her!
ANGELA
A is Carla's sister, Daniel's mom.
she dies a few weeks before her son due to a fall on her staircase. that was just her being an alcoholic.
Daniel has some sort of issues, its never really stated but Angela & Theo both know that he like to draw his aunt (Carla) in all sorts of undress. Carla actually caught him one night sketching her naked while she was passed the fuck out.
anyway, not to sound fucked up but other than being the scapegoat for the death of Theo & Carla's kid, well, thats it really.
CARLA & THEO
Carla had a conference for work that she was really looking forward to going to without Theo or Ben. Theo went anyway and they left Ben with Angela because leaving him with Theo's parents would require too much work.
they go away.
they get notified that ben had an accident and of course they blame each other so they divorce. but honestly, what is the meaning of paper because they both still clapping cheeks.
(exhales. im over it!)
anyway, they book Laura but they find a knife that belongs to Theo (that was in fact the weapon) and he decides fuck it i love carla so much ill take the blame and he does but Irene punks carla into speaking the truth and wadayaknow, were at the end!
finally!
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