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The Guest

By: Emma Cline
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
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Brought to you by Penguin.

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

Summer is coming to a close on Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome...

One misstep at a dinner party and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources, but a gift for navigating the desires of others, Alex stays on the island. She drifts like a ghost through the gated driveways and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world, trailing destruction in her wake.

Taut, sensual and impossible to forget, The Guest captures the latent heat and potential danger of a summer that could go either way for a young woman teetering on the edge.

©2023 Emma Cline (P)2023 Penguin Audio Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting
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The ending threw me, but at the same time I couldn't really think of a better ending, the death of idealism and the violent slap of reality. Not bad!

A stab of realism

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This book kept me engrossed right up until ….. the end.

Am I just not getting it? It feels like the power was just switched off and you are left standing in the dark.

Is there a sequel?

I’m Confused!

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The story was interesting enough to keep listening, nicely written, but the ending was jarring and doesn’t leave room to imagine what happened/why it ended there. Really odd. To be honest I feel like I wasted my time, all this build up and suspense for no outcome. Nicely narrated.

Bizarre ending, feel like I wasted my time listening

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The ends don’t always need to be tied up in a bow, but this book ends very abruptly without explanation. I was riveted, in the edge of my seat, and then… Audible thanks you for listening.

Ending is abrupt

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This book was incredibly addictive.
The ending left me a little confused, but I’m glad for that now.
Is Alex the new Ripley? That remains to be seen.

Nicely handled.

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Thai story held my attention and was well narrated but the ending was so abrupt as to be unfinished. I don’t mind books which leave some of the ending to your imagination but this felt as though the author gave up mid sentence, it was far too clumsy to be effective

Worst ending

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Was enjoying the story until I got to the end. So disappointed with the lack of a conclusion.

Confused

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Was totally engrossed in this story and the narration was brilliant. It was building up to a helluva climax and then…it just stopped. Like the author just gave up on any kind of a resolution.

Amazing story and narration until the end

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I had to stop listening 2 hours from the end. The book is well written and the writing was engaging but the main character made me feel so yuck. The concept is ok in theory, someone living in the shadows of this opulent closed off society but it’s really just a couch surfing self entitled snowflake do doing petty crime waiting 5 days to go to a party to get back her meal ticket

Wish I stoped listening earlier

The performance was really good.

Good performance yucky protagonist

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This was a really good book, but the ending was stupid and contrived.
I’m not sure if there is supposed to be a sequel, which would make things kind of OK, but if there isn’t it’s just a lazy and wholly unsatisfactory way to end the book.

A really good book totally spoiled by the ridiculous ending

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