Last Girl Ghosted
by Lisa Unger
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- ISBN 10
- 0778333264
- ISBN 13
- 9780778333265
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Park Row, 9/6/2022. Later Edition. Trade Paperback (i.e. 5-6 by 8-9 inch softcover). New (Condition varies from Fine to Near Fine. Please inquire as to specific condition)/N/A (volume is softcover). New
Reviews
On Oct 10 2021, CloggieDownunder said:
4.5?s
"Once you ditch that phone, everything that you think tethers you to your life will fall away. Cash. A burner phone. A map�a real paper map!�marked where she should stop for gas, to spend the night. Places that took cash, that didn't have cameras. It's not forever, he told her. Think of it as a life reset."
Last Girl Ghosted is the nineteenth novel by award-winning best-selling American author, Lisa Unger. After three intensely romantic months with Adam Harper, Wren Greenwood is suddenly, inexplicably, ghosted. What was a hook-up from the Torch app soon developed into more; it felt like the real thing, and Wren just can't believe she got it so wrong. Her best friend Jax tells her to chalk it up to experience and move on, but Wren can't let it go.
Then PI Baily Kirk turns up on her doorstep, looking for Adam Harper or Raife Mannes or the man who goes by any number of other names. His client's daughter hooked-up with the man on Torch: now she and all her money have been missing for nine months. She's one of at least three similar stories, all of whom have had some trauma in their early lives, all of whom have connected with this apparently charismatic, Rilke-quoting ghost.
Wren too, has had trauma in her youth, but she's a survivor, a success: her popular advice column, Dear Birdie runs in the New York Chronicle, helping many; she owns a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights; she has friends and interests. But she wants to find Adam too. Do she and Bailey join forces? Does she actually believe the disturbing things that Bailey tells her about the man she had fallen in love with? And what happens if she finds him?
The story is told in a first-person narrative that is addressed to Adam, which sometimes makes for momentary confusion, but ultimately works well. While Wren is a protagonist with whom many readers can empathise, it's disappointing that Unger inserts her into that overdone trope of na�ve arrogance where she enters an almost-certainly dangerous situation alone, without any protection or means of summoning help, and without telling anyone what she is doing. Sure, it does later allow her to be kick-ass, but it's getting a little tired.
However, she does give the reader a gripping thriller, the bones of which are easily believable: the potential dangers of online dating are well-documented. There's plenty of enjoyable banter between friends, some good detective work, and a few action scenes in the lead-up to a nail-biting climax (or two). The support characters are an appealing bunch that Wren is lucky to have beside her. A guaranteed page-turner.
This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by NetGalley and HQ Fiction.
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- Borderlands Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000-227624
- Title
- Last Girl Ghosted
- Author
- Lisa Unger
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback (i.e. 5-6 by 8-9 inch softcover)
- Book Condition
- New New (Condition varies from Fine to Near Fine. Please inquire as to specific condition)
- Jacket Condition
- N/A (volume is softcover)
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0778333264
- ISBN 13
- 9780778333265
- Publisher
- Park Row
- Date Published
- 9/6/2022
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