Book #69 |
Book: Bad Date: A Short Story | Author: Ellery Lloyd | |
| Source: Free First Reads download Format: Kindle |
Pages: 58 | Duration: 08/12/25 – 08/12/25 (1 day) | |
| Rating: ★★★☆☆ | Genres: fiction, short stories, mystery, thriller | ||
| 📕10-word summary: A twisty short story about love, obsession, and deadly deceptions. 🖌6-word review: Needed more — even for short story. |
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| 🎓A new-to-me word: contravened | |||
| Description:* Fay Roper is a divorced single mom and a globally famous actress. She’s also unlucky in love. Maybe because the last thing Fay wants in a man is yet another superfan. But somehow, every time she has a boyfriend who isn’t a stalker, he abruptly disappears from her life. With the help of her best friend and right-hand woman, Poppy, Fay decides to change the game and join an exclusive new dating app under a false identity. A subscriber named Oliver takes the bait. But Oliver likes to play games too. And only one of them can win.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I wasn’t drawn to any of these characters, and I think the story needed more fleshing out in spite of being a short story. Sometimes I choose the bonus short story from a month’s Amazon’s First Reads selections as an introduction to an author I haven’t read, to see if I might want to read other books that they’ve written. That was the case with this one, and after reading it, I’m not particularly motived to read another. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
