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I’ve been on a disturbing-domestic-suspense novel jag (Gone Girl, The Dinner, The Wicked Girls), but after Reconstructing Amelia, I am ready to walk away from the genre for a good long while, find something wholesome and reassuring to read. The story: busy high-powered lawyer and single mom Kate gets a call at work, telling her to pick up her teenage daughter Amelia from school; Amelia (scrupulous, impeccable A student) has inexplicably been caught plagiarizing and is being suspended from her to
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I read this because it was on a list of books that will be movies and that's kind of my thing right now. So now I guess honestly it's more like 3.75 for me but I'm rounding up because it kept me reading. Definitely a page turner and definitely not who or what you're expecting but I guess that's possibly what disappointed me.... The truth is too far fetched and I think if the author hadn't gone so far out of her way to try to shock everyone it would've been better for me. The overall close to hom
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Wow, not for the faint at heart! But, I could not put it down. I can see this being popular with the "if I stay" crowd as well as the"gone girl" folks. this could be an excellent book discussion title, does have language and sexual reference, but nothing really graphic.
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