Repetitive, spinning wheels, too predictable, and I’m strugglingggg to stay interested. 

The Gia Manuscript portions are insufferable because they’re so repetitive with her going on and on about her attention-seeking behaviour, in a way where she seems blind to how cringe it is. Usually that’s my thing, I love a cringey unlikeable character trope, but hers was too one-dimensional. It’s mainly using sex games trying to incite jealousy and repetitive rich woman with daddy issues but in denial.  

Her friend Abby is similarly lacking depth. The difference is her perspective is trying too hard to tell us how uptight, responsible, and conflicted (but reading more like ‘superior’) she is compared to Gia. 

I would say this is a good read for those who like contemporary fiction with psychological sexual/romantic suspense, but imo even that was too one-dimensional. Like trying to be ‘shocking’, by regularly throwing in mention of threesomes, exhibitionism, rough sex. But it’s mostly just Telling us it happened so I don’t even know if spicy readers will find it spicy?

Maybe later there’s a method to all this madness, like we are reading Gia’s memoir so is she purposefully a one-dimensional writer and exaggerating? Maybe but I just can’t stick it out to find out, my brain is melting lol. 

Sooo…not sure who I would recommend it to, but it’s def not for me!