She’s audacious, she’s hot, she has no consideration for what’s hers and what isn’t.
Then, in comes Kate, who is ready to rain on everyone’s parade. So, yeah, we begin with Jake and Marisa living happily ever in their new home and expecting their first child. What’s really remarkable is how well written this synopsis is because on the other side of reading this book, I can’t imagine that I could have written one that was so thorough yet lacking in spoilers. Jake doesn’t know the half of what Marisa has created-and what she stands to lose. In her quest to find out who Kate really is, Marisa might destroy everything she’s worked so hard to create-her perfect romance, her perfect family, and her perfect self.
Who is this woman? Why does she seem to know everything about Marisa and Jake? To make matters worse, Kate’s boundary-pushing turns into an all-out obsession-with Jake, with Marisa, and with their future child.
But Marisa doesn’t let it concern her, knowing that soon Kate will be gone, and it will just be her, Jake, and their future baby.Ĭonceiving a baby is easier said than done, though, and Jake and Marisa’s perfect relationship is put to the test through months of fertility treatments and false starts. Sure, Kate doesn’t seem to care much about personal boundaries and can occasionally seem overly-familiar with Jake. And Kate, their new lodger, is the perfect roommate-and not just because her rent payments will give them the income they need to start trying for the baby of their dreams.Įxcept-no one is truly perfect. I can’t say that complaint A really applied to Magpie, but complaint B did make an appearance.īut, let’s start from the start. that formula always, always, always seems to involve either a high or really high degree of gaslighting targeting women which sometimes makes me more than a little uncomfortable. after a while they become a little formulaic and B. The problems with the genre as a whole for me are that A. I thought Then She Was Gone and I See You were really good and The Girl on the Train still haunts me. Don’t get me wrong, I have read some really great books that would be similarly labeled. We’ll call it female psychological thrillers. It definitely falls into a category that isn’t my usual go to. Something about Magpie by Elizabeth Day really appealed to me.
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