On a Quiet Street
Ratings13
Average rating3.8
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Ratings13
Average rating3.8
The perfect neighborhood can be the perfect place to hide…
Who wouldn’t want to live in Brighton Hills? This exclusive community on the Oregon coast is the perfect mix of luxury and natural beauty. Stunning houses nestle beneath mighty Douglas firs, and lush backyards roll down to the lakefront. It’s the kind of place where neighbors look out for one another. Sometimes a little too closely…
Cora thinks her husband, Finn, is cheating—she just needs to catch him in the act. That’s where Paige comes in. Paige lost her son to a hit-and-run last year, and she’s drowning in the kind of grief that makes people do reckless things like spying on the locals, searching for proof that her son’s death was no accident…and agreeing to Cora’s plan to reveal what kind of man Finn really is. All the while, their reclusive new neighbor, Georgia, is acting more strangely every day. But what could such a lovely young mother possibly be hiding?
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2.5 stars for me. Honestly, it was fine I didn't hate it but I found it weird and annoying that Cora and Georgia's chapters were first person pov, while Paige was third person. Like why would you do that?????
In the minority it seems but I thought this was so far fetched and hard to keep up with. I kept getting all of the characters confused and who was in a relationship with who. The twists had me rolling my eyes.
Het begin was een beetje stuitend.
De proloog was enorm sterk, met veel intrige en emoties, maar dit werd dan opgevolgd door nogal banaal lezende hoofdstukken, in contrast met die eerste sterke proloog.
Mijn intrige nam dus in eerst een duik, maar de aanvankelijke teleurstelling ebde snel weg eenmaal alle introducties achter de rug waren en we echt in het verhaal konden duiken.
En jezus, wat een verhaal zeg! Zoveel drama! Achter gesloten deuren is deze straat allesbehalve stil! Deed mij met momenten een beetje denken aan Desperate Housewives.
Er waren wel een paar rare intermezzo's en gedragingen van de personages, die verder niet werden opgevolgd, maar dat deed voor mij geen afbreuk aan het geheel.
Zeer vermakelijke en meeslepende huiselijke thriller, met schokkende wendingen en een bevredigend einde.
Most of my feelings about this one are wrapped up in how it ended. Spoilers are not specific but will tell you what to expect from the ending so read at your own risk. It's tough to read a lot of this book because it's a lot of people being relentlessly cruel to each other and a lot of “they don't know what we know” frustration, but while I spent a portion of the book worrying that this would be one of those “everybody loses” kind of dark reads, it wasn't, and because the ending was satisfying, I ended up liking the book.
