Book #66 |
Book: One of Us is Dead | Author: Jeneva Rose | |
| Source: Library book Format: Audiobook |
Pages: 272 | Duration: 08/05/25 – 08/06/25 (2 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: nonfiction, thriller, mystery, suspense | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Vicious and deadly antics of — real and desperate — Atlanta housewives. 🖌6-word review: Interesting, sometimes over-the-top, characters and plots. |
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| 💭An amusing quote: “Buckhead was all about smiles. You smiled when you were pissed, and you smiled when you were pleased.” | |||
| Description:* Meet the women of Buckhead—a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships. Shannon was once the queen bee of Buckhead. But she’s been unceremoniously dumped by Bryce, her politician husband. When Bryce replaces her with a much younger woman, Shannon sets out to take revenge… Crystal has stepped into Shannon’s old shoes. A young, innocent Texan girl, she simply has no idea what she’s up against… Olivia has waited years to take Shannon’s crown as the unofficial queen of Buckhead. Finally, her moment has come. But to take her rightful place, she will need to use every backstabbing, manipulative, underhand trick in the book… Jenny owns Glow, the most exclusive salon in town. Jenny knows all her clients’ secrets and darkest desires. But will she ever tell? Who amongst these women will be clever enough to survive Buckhead—and who will wind up dead? They say that friendships can be complex, but no one said it could ever be this deadly.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: At times, this book reminded me of The Last Mrs. Parrish, which I read in 2023 and described as “a wild ride of deliciously conniving viciousness.” The Olivia character in this book rivaled the main character, Amber, in The Last Mrs. Parrish, whom I described as “putting the con in conniving and having a complete lack of conscience, compassion, or remorse, leaving her with zero redeeming qualities.” I listened to the audiobook of this one, and at times, the southern accents got on my nerves, but I did like the fact that they had enough narrators (5 of them!) to differentiate the voices of the 6 main female characters. This was a different plot structure than most murder-mysteries where someone gets killed fairly early in the book and then the plot unravels to reveal the killer, in that it starts off with one character talking to a detective about someone in this group of women’s lives who’s been murdered, but you don’t find out until the very end who was killed and how. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
