Well, this was an entertaining page-turner although it was very conventional and not very surprising. But it held my interest all the time.
It is the often told story of mean girls at school who pick on the nerdy new girl. Newly widowed Kate moves with her daughter Alex to Florida to make a fresh start. Kate soon makes friends among some glamorous mothers who all have also daughters. But they are not as lovely as the title suggests. It is quite the opposite and almost from day one Alex gets bullied by them. When Alex fights one of them for a place in their tennis team things get out of hand.
Right at the beginning we learn that a dead girl was found on the beach. For the rest of the book you can lean back and watch things escalate until you see who the victim is. This is fun although I got the feeling I read something similar before. But it is still juicy and entertaining even if the mothers and daughters fell a bit over the top and the little love-story for Kate felt too-good-to-be-true. And I would have liked to shake Alex because of her stubbornness towards the end. But overall I enjoyed it. It is an entertaining popcorn domestic drama.
I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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