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My Summer Darlings
My Summer Darlings | May Cobb
10 posts | 11 read | 7 to read
Three lifelong friends plus a dangerous, sexy new stranger in town add up to a scorching summer of manipulation, obsession, and murder, from the acclaimed author of The Hunting Wives. A woman in the forest thinks she's going to die. I know he's coming back for me. Jen Hansen, Kittie Spears, and Cynthia Nichols have been friends since childhood. They are now approaching forty and their lives have changed, but their insular East Texas town has not. They stay sane by drinking wine in the afternoons, dishing about other women in the neighborhood, and bonding over the heartache of their own encroaching middle age and raising ungrateful teens. Then Will Harding comes to town, moving into one of the neighborhood's grandest homes. Mysterious and charming, he seems like the answer to each woman's prayers. He's a source of fascination for Jen, Kittie, and Cynthia, but none of them are ready for the way Will disrupts their lives. As Will grows closer with each of the women, their fascination twists into obsession, threatening their friendships and their families. When he abruptly pulls away, each woman scrambles to discover the source of his affection. But what they'll uncover is far more sinister and deadly than any of them could have ever imagined.
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Victoriahoperose
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Mehso-so

This one was just okay for me. It was pretty predictable and there was t anything that was overly new and exciting to me. It felt like stories I‘ve read before in some way or another and the characters were very unsympathetic. It had a Desperate Housewives feel, but just didn‘t work for me.

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AudiobookingWithLeah
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Mehso-so

3¼⭐
If you go into this expecting a drama-filled popcorn-type thriller… then you might like it. 🤷‍♀️ Let me break it down, the writing is there…this has a great flow, easy to stay in the story, and such. But the characters are atrocious…and I get that they‘re supposed to be…but they are a bit much. Also, the foreshadowing at the start of the story; could be that it gave too much away or it could‘ve also been what kept me listening…I‘m not sure.

AudiobookingWithLeah Also...if you don't like smut in your thrillers, you should definitely make a hard pass on this. 2y
5feet.of.fury Yeah, I had similar thoughts on this one. I wasn‘t rooting for anyone 😂 so much drama 2y
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Kappadeemom
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Golf AND reading….it‘s a thing ⛳️🏌️‍♀️😂

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5feet.of.fury
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Mehso-so

Handsome new neighbor plays a literal game of F*ck/Marry/Kill with the desperate housewives.

Very few likable characters, takes a while to set up, it‘s really just ok. The drama that Will‘s arrival stirred up adds very little to the story and is more annoying than anything.

It does have it‘s moments. But overall eh

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5feet.of.fury
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This book has awful reviews, I even stacked it off a bad review, but decided to borrow the audiobook. I am incredibly unclear about the point of this story. It‘s very much a soap opera. But the worst part is that there are 4 narrators and each one does a different voice for Will. So I got used to one which is a little stiff but ok, then the next narrator makes him sound Transylvanian 🧛 and the other like a French woman 🇫🇷

JamieArc Oh my, haha. I have the audio on hold but have capped the number of holds i can have, so I think I‘ll clear some space by removing this now. 2y
5feet.of.fury @JamieArc I‘m only at 50%, so idk it might pay off, but based on the other reviews… I‘m not holding out hope 😂 2y
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FelinesAndFelonies
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Panpan

This was my least favorite book so far this year. I didn't like the flat characters & there was absolutely no plot to the book. I am actually mad that I read this. 😂 It was like a trashy soap opera & I could not have been less impressed with this softcore smut masquerading as a thriller. ⭐💫
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guinsgirlreads
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Pickpick

Even though the “thriller” part hits, for the most part, all at the end and in a hurry, I enjoyed this read!

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LKK526
Panpan

Three women approaching their 40s are taken with the handsome stranger (pardon the cliché) who moves into their upper middle class neighborhood in Texas. If you enjoy books about three grown women who talk and act like teenagers this is the book for you. Some of the verbal idioms seem out of the ‘80s like calling each other “woman” and the over use of “into you”. I was embarrassed for them. Also some of the metaphors were just disjarring.

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guinsgirlreads
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Getting into this one!

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JoyBlue
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Bailedbailed

I took a break because needed to attend to a NetGalley, but this is of the suburban housewives behaving badly ilk, and I just can't. Bailing at 19%.