The Birthday Girl, by Melissa de la Cruz

This book was given to me by NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. The Birthday Girl was released on August 6, 2019 by Penguin Dutton Group.

Ellie looks like she has the perfect life...handsome husband, million dollar houses, and adorable children. Behind all of that "perfection" is a skeleton bursting with closets.

This story follows Ellie on 2 different birthdays, 24 years apart. This is a good enough book. Ellie is annoying. Her husband and children are spoiled and annoying. I spent most of the book thinking that she was a waste of talent and so many others would put her money to good use. The skeletons were truly embarrassing. I felt myself cringing at several points during this book. The ending was as bad as what I was bracing myself to read.

If you like thrillers and suspense, it's an okay book if you need to kill some time. It's not something I would read again. I wasn't overwhelmed, or underwhelmed. This book just left me....whelmed.

🌟🌟🌟 /5 stars

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