Can't Look Away by Carola Lovering -> Restarting July 18th, 2022

[Alaina]

From the author of Tell Me Lies and Too Good to Be True comes Carola Lovering's Can't Look Away, a sexy suspense novel about the kind of addictive, obsessive love that keeps you coming back––no matter how hard you try to look away.

In 2013, twenty-three-year old Molly Diamond is a barista, dreaming of becoming a writer. One night at a concert in East Williamsburg, she locks eyes with the lead singer, Jake Danner, and can’t look away. Molly and Jake fall quickly and deeply in love, especially after he writes a hit song about her that puts his band on the map.

Nearly a decade later, Molly has given up writing and is living in Flynn Cove, Connecticut with her young daughter and her husband Hunter—who is decidedly not Jake Danner. Their life looks picture-perfect, but Molly is lonely; she feels out of place with the other women in their wealthy suburb, and is struggling to conceive their second child. When Sabrina, a newcomer in town, walks into the yoga studio where Molly teaches and confesses her own fertility struggles, Molly believes she's finally found a friend.

But Sabrina has her own reasons for moving to Flynn Cove and befriending Molly. And as Sabrina’s secrets are slowly unspooled, her connection to Molly becomes clearer––as do secrets of Molly's own, which she’s worked hard to keep buried.

Meanwhile, a new version of Jake's hit song is on the radio, forcing Molly to confront her past and ask the ultimate questions: What happens when life turns out nothing like we thought it would, when we were young and dreaming big? Does growing up mean choosing with your head, rather than your heart? And do we ever truly get over our first love?

[Haley]

I'm always into a good thriller!! :)

[Haley]

I'll be a bit late to this one

[Haley]

hoping to start tomorrow!

[Aly]

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RESTARTING JUNE 1st, 2022

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[Trisha]

finally going to be starting this one!

[Trisha]

through Chapter 13 / 27%

Molly(view spoiler)[ interesting how they started but I can see why Jake leaving and not staying connected would be hard to take.
horrible that he didn't warn her about the fan (hide spoiler)]

Sabrina(view spoiler)[ just creepy. Why would she befriend her? I wonder if their friendship is real or if Sabrina is using it for another reason (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha]

Through Ch 23 / 48%

Oooh(view spoiler)[ so hunter has just popped on the scene. interesting.

and she and Jake don't seem like they have ever had a great relationship. just this weird immature need but they don't actually talk or work on things together. . .

but Sabrina is just not well. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha]

Through Ch 33 / 75%

(view spoiler)[ ooooh Molly knows about Sabrina now - at least more than she did before - knows that she is the Lenore email!

aww, and now I understand why she left. their relationship - between him not paying the loans he said he would and then not communicating - they just never seemed to actually have a relationship. . .

and Sabrina - she is just not a good person. just awful (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha]

and I'm done!

I'm (view spoiler)[ so glad she stayed with Hunter. She and Jake were always awful and I didn't think they should get back together

Stella being his was a shock after we knew how close the dates were, I thought because he'd been gone so long, that he couldn't be the father (because him being the father was my first thought of course lol)

and Sabrina - yikes. glad she sorted her life out maybe but I'm not sure she can really form normal relationships. she was just so twisted (hide spoiler)]

[Alaina]

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RESTARTING JULY 18TH, 2022


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[Kira]

Chapter 1 – 10 : (view spoiler)[Sabrina seems unhinged….why is she still after Molly after a decade especially since Molly and Jake are not even together..doesn’t make any sense at all. So far, I am not loving this as I hoped but maybe it’d get better (hide spoiler)]

[Kira]

Chapter 11 – 18 : (view spoiler)[Sabrina is a full on stalker! I don’t understand how she ended up married to Jake after all that, and if she’s married now why is she still after Molly after all this time, Is Jake still in love with her? I felt so bad for him when he got caught in all those circumstances but Molly also wasn’t wrong in her actions…she had no way of knowing truly what was happening (hide spoiler)]

[Kira]

Chapter 19 – 25 : (view spoiler)[I actually started feeling kind of bad for Sabrina after seeing how Jake treats her, no matter why they married, truth of now is that they are together but Jake doesn’t seem interested in being a mature person. But then the 2013 chapters show how she literally stalked Jack and Molly in order to break them up and that’s just wicked. (hide spoiler)]

[Kira]

Chapter 26 – 32 : (view spoiler)[Ugh what a twist of opinions, I am starting to hate Jake and Molly now, nothing and I mean absolutely NOTHING would ever justify cheating to me, regarding as how Hunter is portrayed in the book so far, he seems pretty chilled out and supportive and what these people are doing behind his back is absolutely horrible. (hide spoiler)]

[Kira]

Chapter 33 – End : (view spoiler)[Well….that was fucking weird…what Hunter did for Molly, it seemed pretty unrealistic to me for real world. Everything was so melodramatic towards the end, it took away the book appeal for me. I liked that Sabrina decided to go solo and have the baby herself, fuck Jake honestly, he wasn’t a good partner to either Sabrina or Molly, but the last page of the book left me uneasy. (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

I read this the day before leaving for vacation and just never got to post my thoughts. So here goes:

Ch. 10
(view spoiler)[I agree. Sabrina is a bit cray cray. I'm undecided how I feel about the book but I think Sabrina is off her rocker. (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

Ch. 20

(view spoiler)[ OMG Sabrina is even more than I first thought! Stalker much?! lol Jeez! Trisha, saying Sabrina isn't well is an understatement! And it doesn't make sense that she is married to Jake now. Wonder what's really going on. (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

Kira wrote: "Chapter 19 – 25 : [spoilers removed]"

It's almost as though (view spoiler)[Jake is getting revenge on her. (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

Ch 32

(view spoiler)[Jake is a dang cheater! I have to say I'm not liking any of them now. Hunter is probably my exception as of this point. (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

Finished

(view spoiler)[She definitely made the better choice by going with Hunter and not Jake. And Sabrina, she's just totally out of touch and is a horrible person. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]