Let me start off by saying this...I don't often read thrillers. Why? I have an overactive imagination and a third degree black belt. I'm not the kind of person who needs to feel freaked out or that something is watching me. Also, why I don't do haunted houses.
A Simple Favor is one of those books that you can't put down once you pick it up. It sucks you in and you just have to know how the story ends. I'm normally a pretty vocal reader- I'll laugh out loud at things that are funny, but I said a LOT of bad words while reading this book. There were so many WTF?! moments. I started reading it last night and had to put it down for the night and read something lighthearted(thanks Mutts comics) before bed. I picked it up again this morning, read for 2 hours before work, and finished it on my lunch break.
Wow. The story loops and pulls and wraps you in it so tightly that you won't know who the bad guy really is or if the whole story is just a delusion by one of the characters. I loved it. It was so unlike everything else I've recently read that I loved it that much more. It was sick and twisted and thrilling and exasperating. It gives you the yucky tingly feeling where you are about to see something bad happen but you can't turn away. It's full of moments like that but in a deeply personal intriguing way.
If you've ever sat in the pickup line at school, you can connect with the main characters. The story is relatable at times and at other times mind-blowing that the human brain could come up with this kind of utter fallacy.
I don't normally like thrillers, but I will definitely be recommending this one.
And it's been made into a movie starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick which comes out this month.
I hope the movie sticks to the story.
I bet it's going to be even creepier on the big screen.
Happy day you lovely bookish people!
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