About the Book
A destitute woman deceives her way into the guesthouse of a Hollywood Hills mansion and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs in the next intoxicating novel from Eliza Jane Brazier.
Lyla has always believed that life is a game she is destined to win, but her husband, Graham, takes the game to dangerous levels. The wealthy couple invites self-made success stories to live in their guesthouse and then conspires to ruin their lives. After all, there is nothing worse than a bootstrapper.
Demi has always felt like the odds were stacked against her. At the end of her rope, she seizes a risky opportunity to take over another person’s life and unwittingly becomes the subject of the upstairs couple’s wicked entertainment. But Demi has been struggling forever, and she’s not about to go down without a fight.
In a twist that neither woman sees coming, the game quickly devolves into chaos and rockets toward an explosive conclusion.
Because every good rich person knows: in money and in life, it’s winner take all. Even if you have to leave a few bodies behind.
My Review
Wow, this novel is … dark. I read a lot of psychological thrillers but rarely do I venture into something quite as disturbing as this one ended up being. With that being said, I still think it was a well-written novel and as much as I wanted to shut my eyes during some of the scenes, I also still wanted to figure out how the characters were going to end up. While I didn’t necessarily connect with Lyla or Demi – and especially not twisted Graham or his equally twisted mother – there was a fascinating undercurrent to all of the characters and why they chose to make the decisions they did. At times I found the dialogue hard to follow and there seem to be a few holes in the plot that didn’t add up to me, but I read until the end and gave a little shudder as I closed the last page.
3.5 stars
