by Lisa Unger
SYNOPSIS
You trusted him with your secret…and then he vanished.
When Wren Greenwood meets a good-looking stranger from a dating app, she expects a casual fling – but they connect immediately. Adam Harper is her perfect match.
She falls for him.
She confides in him.
And then he disappears… his profiles deleted, his phone disconnected, his Manhattan apartment emptied.
First, Wren blames herself. Then she hears about the other girls – girls who fell in love with Adam, and are now missing.
Wren needs answers, but as she follows the breadcrumb trail Adam left behind, it leads back to her own dark past. Suddenly, she’s no longer sure if she’s predator or prey.
She only knows one thing: whatever it takes, she’ll be the last girl he ever ghosts…
REVIEW Wren Greenwood has been convinced by her best friend Jax to try a dating app. After a few failed attempts Wren meets Adam, and she instantly feels a strong connection. The pair spend a few intense weeks together and things seem to be going really well until one evening he doesn’t turn up for their date, and disappears completely. Thinking she has been ghosted, Wren starts to take a closer look at Adam and begins to realise that he might not have been the person she thought he was. How much of what he told her was the truth? Did Adam have any real feelings for Wren or was it all part of an elaborate scam? More importantly, if Wren is able to find Adam, will she be able to forgive him considering she wasn’t completely honest with him about her own past?
Last Girl Ghosted is a captivating and modern take on a psychological thriller. This is the first book I’ve read which uses this kind of digital world as its foundation. A predator is using a dating app to select his victims, and Wren uses everything at her disposal to chase his digital trail, even going so far as paying people in Bitcoin to do searches on the dark web. It also firmly cements itself in the modern day with its references to current issues such as Covid-19 and the bushfires in Australia in 2020.
With interesting characters, an unsettling storyline and some fantastic twists and turns - this is definitely a book that will keep you up all night reading! In a way, it was more disturbing than other (technically darker) thrillers because somebody faking their identity is a scenario that could easily happen in real life. In a very complex storyline, the more traditional thriller elements are also broken up with flashbacks to Wren’s traumatic past. It’s this combination of cat-and-mouse chase suspense, and empathy towards the main character that make Last Girl Ghosted such a gripping read!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lisa Unger is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author. With books published in thirty languages and millions of copies sold worldwide, she is widely regarded as a master of suspense. Her latest novel is LAST GIRL GHOSTED.
Unger’s critically acclaimed novels have been featured on “Best Book” lists from the Today show, Good Morning America, Entertainment Weekly, People, Amazon, Goodreads, and many others. She has been nominated for, or won, numerous awards including the Strand Critics, Hammett Prize, Macavity, ITW Thriller, and Goodreads Choice. In 2019, she received two Edgar Award nominations, an honour held by only a few authors, including Agatha Christie. Her short fiction has been anthologised in The Best American Mystery and Suspense, and her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Travel+Leisure. She lives on the west coast of Florida with her family.
Thanks to @HQstories, @SianBaldwin and @lisaunger for my slot on the Blog Tour and the opportunity to read and review.
Product format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1848458666
Pages: 400 pp
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