![]() ![]() But, some things aren't adding up to Jody's explanations to what happened with Abe. ![]() The last person to see Abe alive is his fiancé Jody. Mags moves into Abe's apartment temporarily trying to piece together the final events that led up to Abe's medical condition. Mags receives a phone call that Abe is in a coma due to an attempt to throw himself off his apartment balcony. Many years have passed since Mags has seen her younger brother Abe. Mags Mackenzie is a 30 year old corporate defense lawyer that lives in Las Vegas. The last perso The Girlfriend is a decent psychological thriller but it was missing the mark just a tad in my book. ![]() The Girlfriend is a decent psychological thriller but it was missing the mark just a tad in my book. My thanks to Orion Publi Group via Net Galley for providing me with an early copy. The title of the book caught me, I now know why the author chose that title. It's an intense, purely raw book that rattled my head. The fact that Abe is in a coma means no one can ask questions of him and find out the truth. It's complex in its characters as each have a brutal past or living in a domino effect from they're emotional hell. Then when I did have to stop, I couldn't wait to start again. Then I understood which character was going back in time or their thoughts, that was the major start for me, I couldn't stop reading. I was thinking ' please don't say this is going to be a book that I have so longed for, danced when I got an early copy to read, but it's going to fall flat on it's face' When I started it, in the first few chapters I was struggling to work out who was who and what was what. Then I understood which character was going back in time or their This was one hell of a book' Abe His fiancé His sister Mira Then the ones in the tenant block. I was thinking ' please don't say this is going to be a book that I have so longed for, danced when I got an early copy to read, but it's going to fall flat on it's face' WRONG Once I got to learn who was who. Ages 3-7.This was one hell of a book' When I started it, in the first few chapters I was struggling to work out who was who and what was what. She makes William's pain in response to Wembly's rejection truly touching, yet balances the gravity with deadpan humor (she can even make the word ""MAma"" look funny). But Paparone's carefully rendered pictures convey emotional depth. Downey (The Flea's Sneeze) overpacks her story with incident and, as a consequence, the narrative never really gathers steam the Iggy Hoggleswine interlude seems to go on too long. The breach is healed when a bully named Iggy Hoggleswine asks Wembly to choose between being cool and being a responsible older brother, and Wembly makes the right choice. Of course, William's tattling is really a way to engage the older brother whom he clearly adores: when Mama tries to stop the bickering by ordering the two piggies to stay away from each other (and Wembly ups the ante by painting a do-not-cross line down the middle of their shared room), William is visibly at a loss. The younger, William, is the titular nosy porker: ""Mama,"" he hollers whenever his sees big brother Wembly doing something he shouldn't (like bouncing on the bed or picking his snout). Paparone's (Fire Fighters) acrylic paintings are the highlight of this tale of two piglet siblings.
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