![]() ![]() Very similar to the guilty pleasure some of us may feel with Real Housewives or other reality television, this is what puts the fun in “a fun thriller.” We can laugh and smile at some of her outlandish expectations because she seems to be in on it with us. It makes the character endearing and provides a lot of the fun as well. Sharp contrasts are drawn immediately between Ellie’s life at sixteen, where she lived in a trailer park, came from a broken home, and had no money, as compared to her ultra-lavish lifestyle in present-day where she has bought a mansion on a whim, planned a 40 th birthday party for herself that includes two after-parties, and has pointedly invited “at least 3” of her billionaire friends to the party.įrom the very beginning, however, we get a sense that while Ellie lives for the luxurious life of excess, she still seems to be able to see through it – and mock it. The present timeline is the 40 th birthday party of Ellie de Florent-Stinson, and this story is intercut with chapters from twenty-four years earlier. ![]() The novel is told through two separate timelines in alternating chapters. Maybe that isn’t really a genre, or even a sub-genre, but it is a great way to accurately describe this thoroughly enjoyable, but still suspenseful and twisted tale. Part Real Housewives guilty pleasure and part unravelling mystery, Melissa de la Cruz’s The Birthday Girl is (probably) the first book I have ever categorised as “a fun thriller”. ![]()
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