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You Should Have Told Me by Leah Konen

Rating: ❤️❤️❤❤❤

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I'm asking you to forget everything you know about True Love. The real kind doesn't make you selfish and shortsighted. Real love makes you better than you ever knew you could be.

Leah Konen, The Romantics

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by: Leah Konen Published: Jan 3, 2023 Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Fiction 352 Pages, Paperback

★★

GoodReads Synopsis:

When Janie's boyfriend Max doesn't come home one night, she's doesn't know what to do. Why would he leave her and their baby daughter, with no explanation? Then the police turn up, asking questions about the body of a woman found outside a local bar. They want to know where Max was last night. Where Max is now - but Janie has no idea. They want answers, but Janie only has questions. She loves Max more than anything. But did she ever really know him at all? And if he's capable of disappearing, could he be capable of murder too?

My Review *long read, sorry:

Janie awakens in the middle of the night by her crying baby but no Max, her loving, doting, boyfriend. As any new mother would, she soothes the baby back to sleep, to only be awakened yet again by her fussy baby but this time, she's all alone.

Let me just run down some main players:

Max just up and disappears and even though Janie feels that something isn't right; she's calling and texting with no response; she calls his parents and best friend -- both of which, act like there is no urgency to find him and Janie, just goes along with the sentiment.

Liana irritated my whole spirit!! She seemed to be in all the right places saying all the right things except, it seemed disingenuous. Something about her, I just didn't trust. Ugh, who wants to be around a "yes man" or as we used to call them, a "get with".

Molly is the best friend sent from heaven! More of her please because she was the only person in this whole book with some got damn sense!

Carl and Brenda whew, where do I really even start. Dysfunction and need to use their high-powered lawyer to divorce. She is a miserable shrew and he is a drunk.

Janie is insecure and naive. She really was not a character that I would typically root for. For context, both she and Max seem very accomplished in their careers and not poor or lower class by any means. I say that to say, she could have absolutely gotten the help she needed for her postpartum depression. Furthermore, the way that she has carried this "issue" with Bryan all the way through the story -- carried it like a 1ton weight and used it as a crutch to be self-loathing -- irritated me. She was not likable in a way that, I could not connect with her struggles, her story, or even her personality. I loved that Molly told her the 100% truth and then walked away when she wasn't ready to hear it but, kept the door open for her to come back when she was ready.

Final Thoughts: In all fairness, the characters made this a 1-star read for me but, as all the facts of the investigation are revealed, I gave another 'star' because I didn't see "that" coming. It was a quick read, definitely fast-paced, with only 1 POV and the whole story takes place over the course of 5 days, which means, there is not a lot to keep track of.

*Review edited 24 hours later: I had to drop some stars. After giving it a day, I really dislike Janie and just couldn't shake that the story could've been better; and the "twist" could have been more thought out. Janie was really insufferable.

#TriggerWarning -- r_pe and domestic abuse are discussed

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Thursday Book Reviews | Keep Your Friends Close by Leah Konen, Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli, and Till There Was You by Lindsay Hameroff

Thriller One-word review: wild Emojis: 🥴🫣🤫 Rating: 4 🌟s My thoughts: Keep Your Friends Close by Leah Konen kept me on the edge of my seat for a fast-paced, thrilling ride to figure out who killed Mary’s estranged husband. That said, I’m sitting here wondering how much more I can really say about it without giving anything away. But that in itself is something to remark on – everything in…

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Spotlight Review: KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE by Leah Konen

Spotlight #BookReview: KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE by Leah Konen, a twisty tale told by an unreliable narrator - for fans of @sharilapena @TheGillianFlynn & @PaulaHawkinsWriter. @LeahKonen @PutnamBooks #thriller #unputdownable #domesticthriller #mustread

Click to Purchase From the publisher: Strangers on a Train meets The Family Next Door in this page-turning thriller by the author of The Perfect Escape How well do you know your friends? Isolated and embroiled in a custody battle, Mary is desperate for a friend. So when she meets the charming and enigmatic Willa at a Brooklyn playground, their connection feels fated. But during a…

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Curl up this month with a cozy winter read! Touching on themes of love, family, food, and fun, these books are waiting for you at your local library.

THIS MONTH'S RECOMMENDED READS

Fiction:

How to Excavate a Heart / Jake Maia Arlow

Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling / Elise Bryant

When We Become Ourselves: A YA Adoptee Anthology / Shannon Gibney & Nicole Chung

Love & Other Train Wrecks / Leah Konen

Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things / Maya Prasad

Just Do This One Thing For Me / Laura Zimmermann

Nonfiction:

Starting From Scratch: What You Should Know About Cooking and Food / Sarah Elton

Crafting Change: Handmade Activism, Past and Present / Jessica Vitkus

Mini Knitted Toys / Sachiyo Ishii

Graphic Novel:

Through the Woods / Emily Caroll

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A devoted father. A loving partner. A suspect for murder...When Janie's boyfriend Max doesn't come home one night, she's doesn't know what to do. Why would he leave her and their baby daughter, with no explanation?Then the police turn up, asking questions about the body of a woman found outside a local bar.They want to know where Max was last night. Where Max is now - but Janie has no idea.They want answers, but Janie only has questions.She loves Max more than anything. But did she ever really know him at all?And if he's capable of disappearing, could he be capable of murder too?Praise for Leah Konen:'Intense, unpredictable and completely addictive' T.M. Logan'The twists keep on coming right up to the final page. I read it in one sitting' Sarah Pinborough'One White Lie hooked me from the start. This book has everything - engaging characters, a unique story, and an ending that will blow you away' Samantha Downing

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Love & Other Train Wrecks by Leah Konen

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Love and Other Train Wrecks #OutOfContext

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Maybe even though what they had was beautiful, it wasn't meant to last forever.

Leah Konen, The Romantics

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I read these two contemporaries and loved them both! Here is my review for Leah Konen’s Love and Other Train Wrecks and Isabel Bandeira’s Bookishly Ever After!

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You are like a book I want to read forever.

Love & Other Train Wrecks by Leah Konen (This quote is from an unfinished copy and may be subject to change--but isn’t it adorable?)

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Review: The Perfect Escape by Leah Konen

I love thrillers that feature a group of people in an unknown place going missing. These are exactly the kind of thrillers that I eat up but this one wasn’t quite that.

Sam, Diana and Margaret are all fresh out of relationships and looking forward to getting away together. When they end up stranded in the small town of Catskill just outside New York City, Diana goes missing after a night of drinking. Sam and Margaret become increasingly worried as it turns out that Diana is perhaps not quite who she said she is and their presence in Catskill wasn’t quite as unplanned as they first thought. 

Margaret was definitely my favourite of our three main characters and she was the one that felt the most real to me. She is very much the mother of the group and she appears to have been swept up in this crazy, convoluted story, in which Sam and Diana are much more intrinsically involved. The protective instincts she extends to her friends and the awareness of their status as women in this strange town depicted her as a genuine, kind-hearted person.

Sam is quite neurotic and clearly obsessed with her ex, Harry. The fact that she is constantly trying to downplay her feelings and insist that she isn’t an intense, unhinged woman proves her acknowledgement of how she appears to us. I was a little afraid of Sam because she seemed really unpredictable and she was clearly holding a lot of pain and anger but I wanted her to find peace. 

Sam describes her relationship with Harry as a beautiful, romantic affair and I couldn’t help but wonder whether she was seeing it through rose-tinted lenses now that it was over. I wasn’t convinced that they were good together but without Harry’s perspective, I couldn’t be sure what the truth was. Sam’s unstable mind made her unreliable and figuring out what was happening in Catskill took a lot longer than I expected.

There are plenty of big twists towards the end and a host of shady, ambiguous characters who all seemed to have a hand in what was going on. The full extent of the reveal seems pretty implausible and that made it very hard to finish the book fully satisfied. Everything was tied up but I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing.

The Perfect Escape wasn’t really the closed-door, isolated mystery I expected it to be. Aspects of it were compelling and it wasn’t a easy-to-guess resolution but I didn’t exactly get the ‘oh, why didn’t I realise that before?’ moment that I love with twisty thrillers. If you’re looking for a break from thrillers about female friends getting picked off in a small community, The Perfect Escape could be a new read for you.

The Perfect Escape by Leah Konen will be published by Penguin Random House. It will be available in eBook format on 4th January 2022 and in audiobook and paperback on 3rd February 2022.