Name: Magpie
Rating: 3.797297297297297 (37 reviews)
ISBN: 9781982187606

Elizabeth Day

Magpie

The exhilarating new novel from the bestselling author of The Party: a thrilling, stylish and psychologically astute story of jealousy, motherhood and power

I'd call this a mid-tier thriller. I thought it might be more bone-chilling with how it started, but then the twist, while incredibly surprising, wasn't as creepy or...thrilling lol as I thought it would be. Still firmly a good twist tho! i thought it dealt with infertility very thoughtfully and I actually learned a lot from the book about it. I HATED Jake's mom. I felt so bad for Kate :( One thing I did find odd was the idea that Kate was too feminist to get married but wanted to have a kid with Jake?  I enjoyed the book mostly even if about 3/4ths of the way it felt like it was dragging. I thought the ending would piss me off, but it ended really well! Except for the fact that Kate kind of forgives jake's mom b/c she's a mom now at the end. Again, that's stupid. That lady was awful and being a mom doesn't excuse you from being a bitch.

Liyah 🤎

Ana Gonçalves

the ending was so unbelievably bad I couldn't stop laughing

McKenzie McWhorter

I can't say a ton about this book without spoiling it but it was an interesting read with plenty of twists! The ending felt like a little bit of a let down after such a busy book but overall the story was a good one.

Magpie

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