I am sure some of us have played the game Never Have I Ever…maybe. I know I only played it a couple of times, and it was kind of silly. However, in this book by Joshilyn Jackson, the game is not played innocently instead it heads down the path of ruining multiple lives.
In a suburban neighborhood in Florida, a group of women get together for book club. The book club is the brain child of Charlotte, but her best friend Amy hosts the gatherings in her basement. They are typically a mild affair that last an hour or so with wine and snacks and a discussion on the book, but not this time. This time there is a new member to the group. Her name is Roux, and she is as mysterious and bold as her name implies. Roux has come to the book club to play with these women’s lives….not to discuss Jane Austen.
Immediately, she has the women under her spell as she gets them to drink more wine than they are comfortable with and then they begin sharing their secrets….though it seems Roux has already been made aware of Amy’s secrets and the past that she would like to leave behind here. But Roux is here to play hard ball, she does not care whose life she has to ruin to get what she wants.
A quick read…twists and turns as usual. The women are quite well-developed while the men are in the background and not the most interesting of characters except for Tig. A good read for a lazy summer afternoon.
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