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alliehwilliams's review against another edition
2.0
I liked the main character and there were some good twists and turns. The author is talented. But there were some really problematic (for me) things that I just can’t get over to rate this higher.
beastreader's review against another edition
4.0
I did enjoy this book. The shift from the opening scene to the present was not as smooth as it could have been. I was left wondering what had happened to Olivia's sister. One moment she was driving to pick her up from a party and the next moment she is with her other sister on her way to investigating the disappearance of several women.
I liked Olivia. She was flawed but personable. She may have been a celebrity but she did not flaunt this status. In fact, it was kind of a hindrance to her. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of the women was dark. "Follow the white wolf". A path that is filled with secrets and blood.
Ms. White spins a good tale with interesting characters and a storyline that will keep you reading until the last page. I look forward to reading more books by this author.
I liked Olivia. She was flawed but personable. She may have been a celebrity but she did not flaunt this status. In fact, it was kind of a hindrance to her. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of the women was dark. "Follow the white wolf". A path that is filled with secrets and blood.
Ms. White spins a good tale with interesting characters and a storyline that will keep you reading until the last page. I look forward to reading more books by this author.
kdurham2's review against another edition
4.0
Check out the full review at Kritters Ramblings
A behind the scenes look at Hollywood with a thriller wrapped in one cover. Liv Hendricks and Olivia Hill are one in the same. Olivia Hill was a child actress who left the business after a family tragedy but has reentered as Liv Hendricks, but would prefer to leave the past in the past. As work has dried up she has a new assignment that may bring the past back to life and she may have to confront it all head on.
A behind the scenes look at Hollywood with a thriller wrapped in one cover. Liv Hendricks and Olivia Hill are one in the same. Olivia Hill was a child actress who left the business after a family tragedy but has reentered as Liv Hendricks, but would prefer to leave the past in the past. As work has dried up she has a new assignment that may bring the past back to life and she may have to confront it all head on.
machadofam8's review against another edition
2.0
Predictable. A bit slow. Good plot but unlikable characters.
jakewritesbooks's review against another edition
3.0
Whew. This book is something. Don't know if I loved it or hated it but I know I won't forget it! I almost quit it five times and yet I couldn't put it down. I can usually handle bleak, depressing crime fiction but oh man, this one is bleak!* It mostly works until it doesn't...but the ending kind of comes together but it doesn't? I really need more people to read this so I can parse it out.
A few more points...
-Loved: Jennifer Wolfe is a writer, man. This is a first novel? Dang! Great momentum on the thrills, well-executed twists (even if some were predictable). Fantastic atmosphere. Whew.
-Hated: Using sexual trauma over-and-over again for plot purposes is not great, Bob!
-Loved: The film setting. Kept evoking Marisha Pessl's memorable Night Film.
-Hated: I'm not sure the ending came together as well as the writer would have liked. It's certainly an ambitious ending.
I think my main problem is: I never connected with the main character. Early on, the writer was trying to establish her trauma as the basis for her life and later on, as the story unfolded, I could only see her in her trauma and not as a fully realized person. And as it unfolds and her secrets unfold and the writer peels back to reveal who she is...just couldn't get there. And that took air out of the balloon.
But what a balloon! I don't know if I liked this or not but I'll remember reading it and I'll read more of what Jennifer Wolfe has to write. If this is her first novel, she will only get better.
*Trying really hard to get away from "dark" as a bad word. If anyone has any stand-ins, I'm all ears.
A few more points...
-Loved: Jennifer Wolfe is a writer, man. This is a first novel? Dang! Great momentum on the thrills, well-executed twists (even if some were predictable). Fantastic atmosphere. Whew.
-Hated: Using sexual trauma over-and-over again for plot purposes is not great, Bob!
-Loved: The film setting. Kept evoking Marisha Pessl's memorable Night Film.
-Hated: I'm not sure the ending came together as well as the writer would have liked. It's certainly an ambitious ending.
I think my main problem is: I never connected with the main character. Early on, the writer was trying to establish her trauma as the basis for her life and later on, as the story unfolded, I could only see her in her trauma and not as a fully realized person. And as it unfolds and her secrets unfold and the writer peels back to reveal who she is...just couldn't get there. And that took air out of the balloon.
But what a balloon! I don't know if I liked this or not but I'll remember reading it and I'll read more of what Jennifer Wolfe has to write. If this is her first novel, she will only get better.
*Trying really hard to get away from "dark" as a bad word. If anyone has any stand-ins, I'm all ears.
thereadrose's review against another edition
2.0
Well. This was definitely a really weird book. I need time to process. It would also need a lot of warnings for triggers.
andreazak's review against another edition
Though it was billed as similar to Marisha Pessl's Night Film, Jennifer Wolfe's Watch The Girls is really more of a quick pageturner of a thriller.
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