Looker
Books | Fiction / Psychological
3.4
(64)
Laura Sims
*Featured on Best of Lists in Vogue, People, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Southern Living, and more* In this “wicked slow burn” (Entertainment Weekly) of psychological suspense from the author of How Can I Help You, a woman becomes fixated on her neighbor—the actress.Though the two women live just a few doors apart, a chasm lies between them. The actress, a celebrity with a charmed career, shares a gleaming brownstone with her handsome husband and three adorable children, while the recently separated narrator, unhappily childless and stuck in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband’s cat. As her fascination with her famous neighbor grows, the narrator’s hold on reality begins to slip. Before long, she’s collecting cast-off items from the actress’s stoop and fantasizing about sleeping with the actress’s husband. After a disastrous interaction with the actress at the annual block party, what began as an innocent preoccupation turns into a stunning—and irrevocable—unraveling. A riveting portrait of obsession, Looker is “a sugarcoated poison pill of psychological terror” (The Wall Street Journal) and an immersive and darkly entertaining read—“by the end you’ll be gasping” (People).
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Author
Laura Sims
Pages
192
Publisher
Scribner
Published Date
2019-01-08
ISBN
1501199110 9781501199110
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"A fantastic character study. I absolutely loved this book! "
Ava Spencer
""It's disappointing only because she belongs to us." <br/><br/>While I absolutely love the idea of Looker, I was not a huge fan of the execution. Even though I sometimes get burned out on them, I can always be sucked in with a good stalker novel synopsis. I feel like this book is being incorrectly marketed as a thriller, and it's really more of a character study.<br/><br/>There were not any "thrilling" or suspenseful scenes in this book at all. That's totally fine, but it's just setting Looker up for failure when the synopsis says things like "taut and thrilling" and "propulsive Hitchcockian thriller." Please stop doing this. This story has some elements that reminded me of Watch Me by Jody Gehrman and The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn, but it's not enough to call it a thriller. <br/><br/>Although I had issues, I did enjoy some aspects of the book. I feel like envy is portrayed very well in this story, and it's easy to see how much the main character has let it mess up her life. <br/><br/>Looker is really about the main character's mental unraveling. A lot of her breakdown has to do with infertility, and it starts to drag after a while. I ended up skimming the baby rants after a while. I'm not unsympathetic, but it was very repetitive to read for an extended period of time. <br/><br/>There was some animal stuff I could have done without, and I feel like it was predictable. Everything got very disjointed, and the book does not wrap up well at all. The end is abrupt, and I feel like the build-up of the story was not really worth it to get to the ending. <br/><br/>Thank you to Scribner for sending me this one. Looker will be out on 1/8."
Emily
"⭐️⭐️"
Amanda Berrey
"#fiction #psychological #thrillers #narrative #obsessed #adultfiction "
Monica
