What_Kel_Reads

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...

This book was published on 07/02/19 by Penguin Group Dutton.  This is my third Riley Sager book, but it's the first one I've read.  I actually ordered this as part of my Book of the Month box, even though I was lucky enough to get the book early from NetGalley. Jules has lost everything.  Her job, her boyfriend, and her apartment, all in the span of a few days.  Broke and worried, she finds an ad for an apartment sitter in the paper and applies.  This turns out to be for the The Bartholomew, one of the most prolific apartment buildings in Manhattan.  She is given very simple rules-no visitors, no nights away from the apartment, and no bothering the famous residents.  She strikes up a friendship with one of the other apartment sitters named Ingrid, and discovers they have similar pasts.  When Ingrid goes missing, Jules starts to investigate her disappearance, despite many warning from people in the building.  She begins to unravel a dee...