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Lyla has always believed that life is a game she is destined to win, but her husband, Graham, takes the game to dangerous levels. The wealthy couple invites self-made success stories to live in their guesthouse and then conspires to ruin their lives. After all, there is nothing worse than a bootstrapper. Demi has always felt like the odds were stacked against her. At the end of her rope, she seizes a risky opportunity to take over another person’s life and unwittingly becomes the subject of the upstairs couple’s wicked entertainment. But Demi has been struggling all her life, and she’s not about to go down without a fight. In a twist that neither woman sees coming, the game quickly devolves into chaos and rockets toward an explosive conclusion. Because every good rich person knows: in money and in life, it’s winner take all. Even if you have to leave a few bodies behind.
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0 0An ultimately disappointing read for me. I thoroughly enjoyed Brazier's previous book, If I Disappear; it was a little weird and a little uncanny, but in a way that worked with the story and which I found deeply compelling and haunting. Good Rich People, on the other hand, is a little weird and a little uncanny in a way that I find entirely off-putting and unappealing. I'm game for unlikable (indeed, detestable) characters, but I still have to be interested in them, even if I don't like them as people. And I just wasn't interested enough in the horrible people who largely inhabit the pages of this book - they just weren't fun to read about. I also couldn't get invested in the convoluted twists and turns of what could have been a thrilling, weirdly fascinating plot if it didn't feel overworked, uneven, and uncomfortably self-conscious.
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.
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