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Believe Me: The twisty and addictive thriller from bestselling author of The Girl Before

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I think Delaney used so many clever techniques throughout the story and it created a very unique, anxiety and character driven psychological thriller (this is just one of many examples). We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). I have so much empathy it causes me physical pain, which is the same for many other people with BPD. I had to wait forEEEEEEEVVVVER for this one to come in at the library because I'm starting to review fewer books as arcs to accommodate our busier schedule as a family, and this was one I really wanted to take on initially, but just couldn't fit into the schedule.

It was a reasonably good read but what stayed with me was the nature of the heroine's employment: she was a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyers in New York and her name was Claire Wright. It's the role of her career, one she throws herself into so wholeheartedly she loses track of what is real and what is masquerade, ending up madly in love with her target.To make ends meet she works for a law firm luring unsuspecting husbands into making her a sexual proposition, once she gets them on tape she walks away and gets the evidence into the attorneys or wives' hands. Sure, it doesn’t make Claire feel great, but it is work that uses her beauty and skills and intelligence, and allows her to continue her studies.

If 'The Girl Before' were a clean delineated Rothko, then 'Believe Me' is a frenetic Jackson Pollock. When I say this book was wackadoodle, what I mean is that there aren't any words in the english language that can do justice to just how over the top this tale was. I know what you're thinking, Claire's method's come off a certain way but I'll tell you that what you're thinking is not AT ALL what happens.

This novel discusses quite a variety of topics, such as foster families in the UK; actor’s struggles in the market; kinky sex community; mental institutions and their work methods; art, and when it becomes a danger to society; etc. Usually, it bothers me if I can’t connect with characters, but it didn’t irritate me as much as it normally would. Claire Wright is an actress who was blacklisted in the UK, and takes up coursework in New York City for a fresh start. There's a World of books to choose from such as: Children's Books, Range includes Baby Books (0-3), Books for Toddlers (3-5), Early Readers (5-7), Childrens Story books (7-11), Young Teens (11-14), Young Adults (14-16) and Childrens Educational Books. Is it just me who does this—who feels they’re constantly watching themselves in the movie of their own life?

When it mostly means that the narrator deliberately conceals key facts from the reader for no purpose other than to create confusion and suspense, it feels a little cheesy. A premise that requires all suspension of disbelief and an unreliable narrator makes for a frustrating more so than thrilling read, but for two-thirds of the way Believe Me is a reasonably entertaining, albeit pretty average, psychological thriller.

And then, as she learns throughout the book, it can be difficult to tell when you are acting and you have become the character.

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