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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.

Genre Fiction

Literary Fiction

Psychological

Thriller & Suspense

Fiction

Island

Summer

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I didn’t fully enjoy the experience of this book but was compelled to keep listening, and wonder if I’m supposed to feel so uncomfortable due to the unreliable narration of Alex the main character. It rambled on in her shallow way all the way through, not an ounce of empathy in her character. I actually stopped listening half way through and listened to another audiobook. But I kept wondering about where Alex was heading and what would happen to her, so I carried on with the book and finished it. I was prepared for the ending being abrupt due to other reviews. I don’t know if I’m reading too much into this book but I was left with this feeling throughout that Alex is a ghost/dead, wandering through things as though gone. Maybe I’ve got the wrong end of the stick and I don’t want to listen to it again any time soon.
Well narrated, and well written. I really enjoyed the way the author allows the reader to get into the head of such a shallow character, it’s quite a creepy experience.

Weird and disjointed