Book discussion: Jessie Garcia's business trip

Jasmine Littleton is pretty sure that her friend Glenn will kill her if she doesn't find a way to escape her life in Wisconsin. At first he seemed to be wonderful to shower her with affection and attention, but he had slowly adopted her life, restricted her independence and physically harmful than she opposed. With the help of her childhood staff and girlfriend, Anna, she has a plan to flee from the state from the state.

Stephanie Monroe is a television director who is somewhat reluctant on the way to another professional conference in San Diego. As a divorced mother of an adult son, she has the most flexible schedule of all employees in her television station. It seems churlical to complain because working around for glamor and fun is a lot of people, but Stephanie longs for a real vacation vacation.

A random meeting between Jasmine and Stephanie will trigger an idea. Jasmine, whose first taste of freedom was delicious, is still afraid of the unknown:

When we dropped through the clouds and within the reach of Denver, I looked down and saw snow -covered mountains and extensive suburban areas, and I started to be afraid. Where would I go? What would I do? I didn't know anyone and had no place to sleep that night.

The blurry plan, which I had dreamed of for a year, was everything ahead of me: Get to Colorado, found it out. But the plan that was weak during my conversation with Stephanie at the edges of my psyche began to dance again. It was like one of these huge bubbles, vinyl creatures that they see at the openings of the car dealers, where their arms and legs move around wildly and the body dives and lifts in all possible unpleasant movements that were strengthened by a fan. That's how I felt. A little out of control, but occupied by air.

This encounter and the following plans that encourage them will lead to a terrifying experience for more than one person, since both women apparently distract the network. The narrative fractures as their concerned friends try to contact them and ask questions. Only rare texts come back to the answer, but one thing soon becomes clear: A man named Trent McCarthy is involved in all decisions that the women are now making.

Trent is a news director from Atlanta and only one of the most terrible people who can meet them who are not (still) an actual criminal. It cannot be denied that he has charm, but he also has a great feeling of narcissism and claim, even if it is shaped by illness:

Who gets sick and sits around like a loser on the NFL Sunday? I thought of my buds at the bar, laughed and hired, maybe the place also played the retro video games. It was also a good place to hit chicks. Fuck, fuck, fuck. I hardly ate the rest of the day and hit the bathroom a few times a few times. I looked at the couch.

At 8:30 p.m. I even thought about writing an SMS to my secretary to say that I needed a sick day on Monday, but I never took sick days and proudly how steel I was. All of these switches that used every sick day they had and then complained about no longer having. No, not me. I would go to hell or the high water.

Trent is admittedly a womanizer, but would he ever bend down to actually harm a woman physically? Since Jasmine and Stephanies always examine their connection to him more hectic friends, a settlement will have. Nobody is pretty much what they seem, since betrayal and murder enter the picture and change the life of both women forever.

I admired the close pace and the clever construction of Jessie Garcia's debut novel very much. She writes her faulty characters so compulsively that it is impossible not to understand her motivations for sneaky things, even if we ultimately cannot excuse them. I was actually a little mad at how likeable she pulled me to someone who is almost unexcused!

The turns are also presented with excellent timing and the tension imposed, while readers try to develop the secret of increasingly confusion alongside Jasmine and Stephanies. In the end I felt pretty bad for Stephanie and Diana, but sometimes likeable people do terrible things, and sometimes innocent people happen terrible things. However, it was a consolation that everyone else got their desserts.

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