BOOK ~ Envy

I have 3 rules when I read a book.  I broke 2 of them reading this book.

1. I never like to read a book twice.
2. I never read the end before I get there.
3. I always like to finish a book I start.

I read this book twice.  It was kind of familiar, but not enough to stop my reading.  I kept reading wondering if it would become more familiar.

I also skipped to the end.  I was thinking the conclusion might make the whole book come back to me and I would stop reading it.  The ending just made me want to keep reading to fill in the blanks.

Needless to say I read the entire book a second time.

Sandra Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, keeps readers turning pages with an explosive tale of a long-ago crime and the victim's plan for revenge...When New York publisher Maris Matherly Reed receives a tantalizing manuscript from someone identified only as P.M.E., its blockbuster potential-and perhaps something else-compels her to meet its author. On an eerie, ruined cotton plantation on a remote Georgia island she finds Parker Evans, a man concealing his identity and his past. Maris is drawn into his tale of two young friends and a deadly betrayal ... and to Parker himself. But there's something especially chilling about this novel, its possible connection to Maris's own life, and the real-life character who uses her, or anyone, to get what he wants.

Finished May 31, 2014