Astrid Hawk
A thriller that I actually found thrilling... what a revelation. This book kept me feeling slightly uncomfortable most of the way through, particularly following Claire's story, since her story dealt with domestic abuse and domestic violence. But mostly I was just constantly worried for her, worried that she was going to make an obvious mistake, and I appreciated that about the writing. I was genuinely hooked, maybe in spite of myself, maybe because I was hoping to watch an abuser get taken down. The situation was a bit improbable, and the purchasing of hotel rooms and plane tickets with cash seemed especially conveniently easy... but overall it was still a good tense read.
The one thing that really bothered me was the use of a Google doc for spying... the author apparently forgot that little icons show up at the top of the screen so that everyone can see who is in the doc... and if the same person is in there from two locations - two browser tabs, two different browser windows, two different machines - they'll show up twice in that list of icons. So spying using another user's credentials wouldn't have been possible without detection. Fortunately, this flawed Google doc spying mechanism mostly serves to add suspense and doesn't end up being pivotal to the plot.
A thriller that I actually found thrilling... what a revelation. This book kept me feeling slightly uncomfortable most of the way through, particularly following Claire's story, since her story dealt with domestic abuse and domestic violence. But mostly I was just constantly worried for her, worried that she was going to make an obvious mistake, and I appreciated that about the writing. I was genuinely hooked, maybe in spite of myself, maybe because I was hoping to watch an abuser get taken down. The situation was a bit improbable, and the purchasing of hotel rooms and plane tickets with cash seemed especially conveniently easy... but overall it was still a good tense read.
The one thing that really bothered me was the use of a Google doc for spying... the author apparently forgot that little icons show up at the top of the screen so that everyone can see who is in the doc... and if the same person is in there from two locations - two browser tabs, two different browser windows, two different machines - they'll show up twice in that list of icons. So spying using another user's credentials wouldn't have been possible without detection. Fortunately, this flawed Google doc spying mechanism mostly serves to add suspense and doesn't end up being pivotal to the plot.