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I loved Liv Constantine's first book, The Last Mrs. Parrish, so I had high hopes for the second one, The Last Time I Saw You, narrated by Julia Whelan. What a disappointment.
Mrs. Parrish was elegant, well-crafted, twisty fun, but The Last Time I Saw You is a run-of-the-mill, pedestrian, Lifetime movie-type book. It's competent and entertaining enough, but it's not top-tier suspense. The usual tropes of the genre are all trotted out, without any of the cleverness that elevated the first book.
The characters are all mostly unlikable as well, and I spotted the villain of the piece early on.
Oh well. Maybe the next person on the long library waiting list will be more impressed than I was.
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