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Carregando... The Woman Inside (original: 2019; edição: 2019)de E. G. Scott
Informações da ObraThe Woman Insiide de E. G. Scott (2019)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I found this really difficult to read, not because of the plotline but because it jumped around too much from one point of view to the other but also the time changes, I was finding myself completely confused. But, I did finish it and I thought overall it was a good read if you can get past the jumping around. ( ) Paul and Rebecca are a couple. They had come together through having an affair, with Paul the one being married. Their life is good, although not idealic. Paul has been lately not working and Rebecca is carrying the weight of earning a living being a drug rep. Rebecca has been partaking of the drugs that she is selling and has become addicted. Paul has been carrying on an affair with Sheila. There are many side stories with this novel. Unfortunately, I was really able to figure out this ending about mid-way through the novel. It was interesting to read, though. Some interesting characters and unexpected plot twists made this a quick read. Rebecca and Paul are drawn together based on mutually tramatic childhoods and begin their marriage full of romance and future dreams. They settle into a cute little cottage and buy a property with hopes of building their dream home. Initially, Paul's career as a contractor blossoms but after it takes a dive, his ego takes a hit and he begins an affair. Rebecca is suspicious but copes with help from her increasing drug habit. After Wes (Rebecca's Big Pharma boss) fires her, she loses both her personal pill supply and the income she and Paul rely on. While trying to uncover her husband's questionable activities, she imitates her normal routine, dressing for work and attending spin classes with her "girlfriends ", which include Wes' wife, and unbeknownst to her, her husband's mistress. As the wall of secrets that she and Paul are building escalates even higher, two local women go missing and detectives come knocking on their door. When a dead body is found on their property, the shit really hits the fan. All About the Plot When twists, turns, and astonishing developments become the whole point of a novel, they had better be riveting and easily followed, and the person foisting them on the victims and the cops must be credible. In The Woman Inside, the author team making up E. G. Scott has given readers a pretty good plot and done a fairly fine job of presenting a husband and wife at odds with each other. Most readers will see where the novel’s headed, but it’s not exactly where they will be thinking and wanting to finish, no blue skies coming your way here. Which many of us will find a strong point. The weakness, however, lies in the person engineering events, because your reaction might be, “Oh, really?” And then there are the cops, not quite Keystone but certainly in the area of Mutt and Jeff, there to provide comic relief and possibly misdirect the reader. Here we have the married couple of twenty years, Rebecca and Paul Campbell. Rebecca has been a very successful pharmaceutical salesperson of various painkillers. Unfortunately, over the years, she has become a user of the products she sells. She loses her job, supposedly, because she’s been dipping into the stock. She and her husband Paul have an arrangement where each adds to a joint savings account, with the end objective of building their dream house in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. (It figures significantly in the plot.) She decides to keep her dismissal a secret. She instead focuses on ways to feed her habit. Paul not only is good with his hands, but he used those skills to build a flourishing construction business. Then came the Great Recession and he lost everything. For months he idled on the couch, irritating Rebecca, until an old buddy got him involved in high-end real estate sales out on the Island. Paul turned into a very busy man, what with work and philandering. Both he and Rebecca lament that something has been lost in their marriage. He fills in the empty space with an affair; she fills in with more drugs and a strong dose of paranoia and hopped up jealousy. His causes her to delve into his life, uncovering secrets that further fuel her paranoia and rage. Paul has always been something of a sexual scoundrel but he meets his match in Shiela. He operates under the impression that he has finagled his way into her bed and that he is the master of his own cheating fate. Shiela, however, is cut from Alex Forrest’s white business ensemble, the female protagonist of the late 1980s who had men forsaking infidelity, at least for a few weeks. She manages to make everybody’s life hellish. And then there are the two cops, somewhat mismatched partners who catch the scent of these Long Island loonies. They puzzle through the situation as they wisecrack with each other, suspects, and witnesses, and it’s all very cringeworthy writing. If ever there was a beach read, this is it. So, you might want to save it for a sunny vacation, or the summer. It’s nothing great, but it certainly is diverting. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Rebecca didn't know love was possible until she met Paul, a successful, charismatic, married man with a past as dark as her own. Their pain drew them together with an irresistible magnetism; they sensed that they were each other's ideal (and perhaps only) match. But twenty years later, Paul and Rebecca are drowning as the damage and secrets that ignited their love begin to consume their marriage. Paul is cheating on Rebecca, and his affair gets messy fast. His mistress is stalking them with growing audacity when Rebecca discovers Paul's elaborate plan to build a new life without her. And though Rebecca is spiraling into an opiate addiction, it doesn't stop her from coming up with a devious plot of her own, and this one could end absolutely everything. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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