Review By Veronica
The Next Girl is an addictive heart pounding thriller that will keep you up in the wee hours of the morning.
Favourite Quote:
And then it happens.
I remember why I got so drunk in the first place, and everything spins a little faster.
Because: The Case.
Yesterday we lost the Jane Delaney case.
My ears ring and my chest aches and I want to give the memory right back like a shitty Secret Santa gift. A cactus. A candle. A bottle of sweet wine.
Because today I’m going to get fired.
Goodreads Synopsis:
The question is, whose life will be ruined? When Billie wakes up in a strange guy’s bed, her first thought is: what happened last night? She can’t even remember meeting him. And how the hell did she get to Coney Island?
Then reality bites and the memories flood in – the reason she was in that bar, drinking to start with: today she’s going to get fired. Because yesterday her law firm lost a big case: Samuel Grange v Jane Delaney. And it looked like it was her fault.
It wasn’t. Yet now Samuel Grange is free to drive off into the sunset in his stupid Porsche and do it all again to another woman. And all Billie can think is: What about the next girl? And the one after that? But there is nothing she can do to stop him.
Unless … She could expose the truth about him on her own. Then everyone would see what he was really like. And he wouldn’t be able to do it again.
The problem is, the only way to protect the next girl is to become the next girl. And, well, that could be a little risky … even deadly.
I cannot get over how gripping and twisty this book was. I got sucked into Billie’s story and did not want to put this book down because I just needed to know what would happen next. I loved how surprised I was with the direction Pip took this book in. There were so many things that happened in this book that I wasn’t expecting. I loved that feeling of not knowing what was going to happen next. It’s not too often that I read a book where I have no idea where the story is going. I want to let you know that I will be very vague when talking about the content of this book because I feel like you’ll enjoy this story more going in blind.
The story itself has this unique and interesting vibe to it. It’s told from Billie’s POV, which I loved. Billie is a great and surprisingly complex character. She lives in that morally grey zone, and the things she does in this book are sometimes questionable, but I couldn’t help but root for her. There is a real vigilante vibe to her character. Pip is a master at giving her readers just enough information about Billie to pique our interest and to keep us wanting to read so we can learn more about her character.
The pacing of this book was perfect. It starts slow, but it quickly picks up, and Lord, by the time you get to the end of the book, it feels like you are going at warp speed. I was literally on the edge of my seat by the end of this book. I was surprised at this book’s amount of depth when it came to some more serious topics. Pip sheds light on a lot of the dangers that women face daily, things like assault, rape, abuse, and this fear that women have that no one will believe their stories. I thought Pip handled these topics with care and thought and weaved them into her story so that they would have a big impact on her readers.
The Next Girl is a MUST-read for any thriller fan.
Thank you, Simon and Schuster Canada, for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
