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I'd give this book 3 *. It started out really well.and I liked the way the author wrote about the individual characters. However, I found the whole Nicholas part absolutely bizarre, there wasn't really any explanation and it came out of nowhere. Lovely prose though.

A story centered on a college-level creative writing class. We get to know the students through their writing, including lengthy pieces a deeply disturbed young man. An interesting premise. Unfortunately, I didn‘t like any of the characters. In fact, the central character seems to embrace her victim status with a numbing lack of agency.
We know what will happen from the beginning, and I for one, did not care.

Jo Baker is better than this.

I wanted so much more out of this book, but unfortunately it just fell in that meh category.

This sounds so good.

This thriller was a random pick from the library New Fiction display—and I don‘t normally read thrillers. This turned out to be great though—fast, not particularly violent and with a low body count, and not horrible suspenseful. No nightmare fuel! A young mother and new professor in a small English town struggles with her graduate students—and how to manage their struggles with each other. Then one‘s submissions get creepy. #thriller #2019release

Freebie sent to the bookstore by the wonderful folks at @PenguinRandomCa I loved Longbourne and can‘t wait to try this one.