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Looker

LookerLooker By Laura Sims

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Published by Scribner on January 8, 2019

Rating: four-stars

In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighborβ€”the actress. The unnamed narrator can’t help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment lies between them. The actress, a celebrity with her face on the side of every bus, shares a gleaming brownstone with her handsome husband and their three adorable children, while the narrator, working in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband’s cat.

When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what began as an innocent preoccupation spirals quickly, and lethally, into a frightening and irretrievable madness. Searing and darkly witty, Looker is enormously entertainingβ€”at once a propulsive Hitchcockian thriller and a fearlessly original portrait of the perils of envy.

This was a really quick, absorbing, twisted book that I could not put down once I started!

I really liked the way the story kept me on my toes, in terms of whether I could trust the narrator. As things got darker and stranger, I was pulled in and had to know how this was going to end.

I feel like I shouldn’t say much about this one because I went in with only a very faint idea of what it was about, and I think that’s part of what made this so enjoyable for me.

I definitely recommend this one if you’re looking for a dark, gripping read.

four-stars

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