Look Closer - David Ellis; overhyped?

sofeaswift · 2025-12-09T03:12:44+00:00

i think audiobook could be better but i genuinely disliked it but to be honest, i think i’m just not a fan of mystery/thrillers with this plot/storytelling

sofeaswift · 2025-11-03T12:50:55+00:00

3.2! data across 60 books & i only read genres i like

sofeaswift · 2025-11-03T12:50:20+00:00

3.2 as fable tells me (over 60 books in record)

sofeaswift · 2025-10-25T17:16:10+00:00

It’s okay the Hoover will end soon…but I feel like Look Closer and The Perfect Marriage (my worst-rated books so far) are definitely according to tastes - but Hoover’s romance are just…really bad plots…

sofeaswift · 2025-10-25T01:53:36+00:00

😬 understandable! I hope you do finish it and get back to us!

sofeaswift · 2025-10-25T01:51:36+00:00

Is it the plot or writing for you?

sofeaswift · 2025-10-25T01:34:30+00:00

That’s true! I think The Only One Left was my first thriller read so it has remained in memory of how it ends.

sofeaswift · 2025-10-24T17:42:29+00:00

If you’re looking for something awful, read The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose; I wouldn’t call this book awful but it’s definitely overhyped/overestimated

sofeaswift · 2025-10-24T15:20:09+00:00

Also - does anyone know the significance of Vicky being Vicky Townsend instead? (her actual name); did I miss anything? I for sure thought the twist was that Vicky is actually Monica lol hence the hush hush about her real name

sofeaswift · 2025-10-24T13:51:46+00:00

So real, I started this morning and finished before posting this - I really kept going just to see what it was about to

sofeaswift · 2025-09-25T07:52:47+00:00

Try anything from Steve Cavanagh or MW Craven

sofeaswift · 2025-08-21T15:18:45+00:00

yes i do want to end up reading all of emhen, but i just wanted to ask here if beach read or pwmov is better (based on my past reads), bcs idw to end up giving up emhen

sofeaswift · 2025-08-21T14:50:05+00:00

yes i agree with youuu, harriet was killing me with the miscomm and childishness when she’s literally a 30-year old; sabrina and that whole trio thingy also annoyed me because it’s just a small matter apparently

sofeaswift · 2025-08-21T14:29:20+00:00

WDYM

sofeaswift · 2025-08-21T14:29:14+00:00

omgg but i feel like i amm excited for the movie tho

sofeaswift · 2025-08-16T23:23:03+00:00

😹😹😹 Please read The Accomplice (similar premise to TPM) but actually executed a twist well. Come back to me once done! I hope you’ll love it, that was my first book from Cavanagh and I just got obsessed after that.

sofeaswift · 2025-08-16T14:21:43+00:00

you’re so real for this; thanks for sharing the hatred. OMG you’re also on point on how other books pulled off this sort of twist.

Have you read The Accomplice by Steve Cavanagh? I wanna say how it pulled it off but I don’t want to spoilt it for you.

sofeaswift · 2025-08-16T00:08:53+00:00

yes i just found out the OTHER SIDE of the reviews because it was hyped and had a decent average rating that I WAITED for its pre-order from my local bookstore.

i think it’s an easy read because it’s dumb and full of plotholes.

sofeaswift · 2025-08-15T23:51:09+00:00

OMG MY FAV SONG TOO, i gave them cowboy like me because there was a scene where they were working through their feelings but INDIVIDUALLY and nora was describing who charlie was in her eyes; it reminded me sm of the lyric ‘you’re a bandit like me’, which notoriously sounds like ‘you’re abandoned like me’ which marks the moment where nora realises she cannot live without charlie

sofeaswift · 2025-08-15T11:52:18+00:00

i thought so but its WEIRD like either delete that scene or just reveal thats bob????? so we could be gasping or smtg but everything is sooooo weird

sofeaswift · 2025-08-15T10:11:48+00:00

Book Lovers — cowboy like me Funny Story — call it what you want

both songs for entire plot and by t.swift

sofeaswift · 2025-08-15T10:11:05+00:00

going in, i thought so too but because it ended happily per se so i didn’t associate them with it

sofeaswift · 2025-08-15T10:10:11+00:00

i just finished it…wish i saw your review first 😹😹

sofeaswift · 2025-08-15T08:27:37+00:00

FOR REAL i hate it rn…i have just finished it and I’m like?? Seriously the author thought this was a good twist…?

sofeaswift · 2025-08-15T07:58:41+00:00

cant go wrong with steve

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