In a change of pace, this is a book that my dad lent me! We don’t typically read the same kinds of book, so I wasn’t sure, but also I’ve been doing a lot of reading things I’m not familiar with or that I wouldn’t normally picked up, so thought it was worth at least giving it a shot!
We follow two women: Alix and Josie. They were both born on the same day in the same hospital, but who grew up to have very different lives. Alix is a podcaster looking for a new project and Josie, who she meets randomly on her birthday, has a story she wants to tell. But as Josie tells her story, she becomes obsessed with Josie, and the people in her life warn Alix that there’s something very off about her.
The framing device of the book is as a Netflix documentary, which actually worked really well for me. It doesn’t hit you over the head with exposition in the way these kinds of devices often do, it was more used as an opportunity to add in extra and biased perspectives on the story that gives more context to what’s currently happening in the story.
I am also a sucker for an unreliable narrator, and seeing the perspectives of Alix and Josie play off of one another was a lot of fun. Alix feels like someone at a turning point, and watching as Josie devolves into what she is at the end, watching as she justifies everything in her life, it’s lovely. Not that everything is clear by the end, but I like that kind of thing.
Overall, really enjoyed this one! It was fun, unexpected, and also something that I ended up having a really good time with. Check it out if you’re looking for a thriller.