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A review by onmalsshelf
Can't Look Away by Carola Lovering
Did not finish book. Stopped at 16%.
Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for this audio galley.
I can't help but feel anything besides duped by the genre description from the publisher.
This is NOT a mystery/thriller.
I DNF'd at about 16.3% in and kept waiting for the smallest smidge of mystery or thriller to start appearing because this is around the point that it does. Sadly, it didn't. I would say this is more of a women's fiction domestic drama and it would probably be perfect for a Lifetime movie.
Can't Look Away follows Molly, a woman who used to live in NYC and used to date Jake Danner in 2013, but now lives in Flanner Cove, CT with her husband, Hunter, and daughter in 2022. Molly is lonely surrounded by 40 something country club wives - enter Sabrina, the mysterious new newlywed that befriends Molly after attending her yoga class and running into her at the doctor. What are her motives and was meeting Molly an accident? What happened to Jake Danner?
I'll say the narrator performance did keep me going so bravo with that. Great combination of narrators.
HUGE trigger warning for infertility and miscarriage. Infertility was a huge topic in just the first 16% so I'm assuming it would be carried throughout.
I have the author's most recent release from 2021 sitting on a shelf and I'm still looking forward to picking it up, but I can't recommend this one to anyone looking for a mystery/thriller. Looking for a women's fiction with domestic drama? Take a crack at it.
I can't help but feel anything besides duped by the genre description from the publisher.
This is NOT a mystery/thriller.
I DNF'd at about 16.3% in and kept waiting for the smallest smidge of mystery or thriller to start appearing because this is around the point that it does. Sadly, it didn't. I would say this is more of a women's fiction domestic drama and it would probably be perfect for a Lifetime movie.
Can't Look Away follows Molly, a woman who used to live in NYC and used to date Jake Danner in 2013, but now lives in Flanner Cove, CT with her husband, Hunter, and daughter in 2022. Molly is lonely surrounded by 40 something country club wives - enter Sabrina, the mysterious new newlywed that befriends Molly after attending her yoga class and running into her at the doctor. What are her motives and was meeting Molly an accident? What happened to Jake Danner?
I'll say the narrator performance did keep me going so bravo with that. Great combination of narrators.
HUGE trigger warning for infertility and miscarriage. Infertility was a huge topic in just the first 16% so I'm assuming it would be carried throughout.
I have the author's most recent release from 2021 sitting on a shelf and I'm still looking forward to picking it up, but I can't recommend this one to anyone looking for a mystery/thriller. Looking for a women's fiction with domestic drama? Take a crack at it.
Graphic: Infertility and Miscarriage