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Ep.16 In the Dark I See You by Malika Narayanan
Buckle up for our most brutally honest episode yet as we tackle "In the Dark I See You" by Malika Narayanan—a thriller that had us cranking our audiobook speed to maximum just to reach the finish line.
What starts as a seemingly intriguing premise—a blind woman named Audrey discovers her neighbor Sarah's dead body—quickly devolves into a labyrinth of confusing timelines, meaningless cliffhangers, and plot threads that lead absolutely nowhere. We break down why this particular thriller left us both with matching low star ratings and wondering where the actual thrills were hiding.
The story jumps between "Audrey's perspective" and "Sarah's perspective" across multiple timelines spanning from "present day" to various points in the past. We navigate through neighborhood break-ins, an elaborate embezzlement subplot, mysterious surveillance operations, and supposed romantic entanglements—all while trying to piece together what any of it has to do with the central murder mystery.
Between Audrey's peculiar dirt-eating habit, an inexplicable listening device installed in Sarah's closet, and detectives who seem more interested in proving Audrey guilty than solving the crime, we're left increasingly baffled as the story unfolds. When the major twist finally arrives—that Audrey and Sarah are actually the same person—it's less of an "aha!" moment and more of an exasperated "really?"
Despite our disappointment, we find moments of humor in our shared confusion and even offer our fantasy casting suggestions should anyone dare to adapt this story for the screen. Join us as we demonstrate that even passionate book lovers sometimes encounter reads that just aren't their cup of tea—and that's perfectly okay.
Editing done by Connor Luther @clfilms.co
Music by @thundercatlouis
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hello, hello everyone, and welcome to another story time with when girls talk books. I'm kylie, I'm suzy and today we are going to be, uh, reviewing in the dark. I see you, and this is by malika narayanan beautiful, thank, I worked on that.
Speaker 2:I was sitting here on the back being like oh, come on, you should have me read it, no no, no.
Speaker 1:So I will give a warning here. Not all books are five stars, and that's okay, and they just might not be five stars for us, they might be five stars for other people. But this was definitely really hard for me to get through Same Star rating.
Speaker 2:Two and a half out of five. One star, and I want to say I am aware that I cannot write a book, so I'm not here to rip them apart, but just this was the first time I went oh, maybe I don't want thrillers, maybe I don't. Oh yeah, I was just so confused. I'm still confused. I finished it and I'm it's like I'm gonna go to a math test right now. I'm like, oh, I'll put stuff on the paper, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of numbers, percentages and forms. Thrillers are one of my favorite genres. I read them quite a lot. I would say I love a good thriller. This was not it for me. I also do not DNF books. Barely ever, barely ever will I DNF a book.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't have finished this if it wasn't for the podcast do?
Speaker 1:you not finish? Yeah, okay, I was over here. I'm like don't finish, yeah, so, um, I yeah, I wouldn't have finished it, if we're gonna be honest around like 50 pages in I was already kind of over it, wow. So it was really like this was brutal for me. This is so validating for me too, but I was like okay okay, like I'm not kidding when I say I wanted to bang my head against the wall, I just, I'm just.
Speaker 2:It just wasn't for me so this will be the shortest episode we've ever done because nothing freaking happens.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, it just. It just wasn't it, and that's okay. And I did have to audiobook this, or else I wouldn't have finished it like this.
Speaker 2:Took everything in me circling back to last mini episode, how we were discussing how fast we listen to stuff I put this one on two.
Speaker 1:Oh, mine was at two and a half. I wanted to be done with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like chip chop, let's go. And here's the thing it was never ending you didn't miss anything, true?
Speaker 1:Okay, timelines, screenshots oh my gosh. I took chapter by chapter notes because it felt like nothing was happening in basically the entire book.
Speaker 2:I felt like nothing was happening but the wind chimes were making a sound.
Speaker 1:And then by the end of it, when things started picking up, I had already figured out what was happening and I just point blank did not care, like I again, I'm so sorry, but this it just wasn't. It, it just wasn't it for me.
Speaker 2:And then I chuckled with how much like police, like cops stuff Because we don't really love detective books and stuff in general, and there was so much of it, I'm like, oh no.
Speaker 1:I was struggling In our group chat, like literally banging my head against the wall. I did not want to finish this, but I did. I finished it. So can we just doing hard things? 2025, finishing the thriller? That's right, just a girl. And we did want to do something different because we felt like we were doing a lot of romance. And then this you know what?
Speaker 2:not the pit. You don't want to listen to stuff about romance books. I'm sure there's lots of other people on YouTube.
Speaker 1:I think this just wasn't the best one, because I did read I mean, I've read probably like three thrillers since the last time we recorded so, like I do read thrillers, this just wasn't it. This just wasn't it for me, correct? I feel that, yeah, so I think it was just maybe a bad choice on our part.
Speaker 2:And that's okay, because we wouldn't have known. And this is why we do the random selection also because now nobody has to harbor any like oh, I made everybody read this book. Yeah, it's like well, it was just fate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and now you guys know that we're not biased when it comes to these books. Most of the time, we do like them, yeah really this just wasn't it.
Speaker 2:We're not just always like too scared, like no, we'll just be honest.
Speaker 1:I'm like I actually don't enjoy it.
Speaker 2:So let's get into this yeah. So this book goes, chapter by chapter, into different people's point of views and timelines and timelines yes, I do people's point of views and timelines and timelines yes, I do not. I don't. I don't do well with that. I struggle enough. When I'm watching it like a tv show, I'm like, oh god, we're gonna do this shit where they start you present day and then six months before and then two years later and then one month before I'm like I can't get trapped, that's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 1:And yeah, it was hard and like to me it was especially hard because I just didn't care, you know, I was like, okay, all right, uh-huh, anyway, okay. So we start with current day and we start with Audrey Hughes and she is visually impaired, she can't see at all, and she hears her neighbor's baby Nicole crying through the closet and she's like that's interesting. She wouldn't usually let her cry that long and she was gonna go over to investigate. And she trips and falls over a body and it is her neighbor, sarah, who rip sarah on the floor and so she calls 911 and she ends up finding nicole and nicole is like in her car seat, strapped in, ready to go somewhere, yeah, and we're left there. So she finds a dead body. This is the most exciting thing that happens for about 300 pages.
Speaker 1:And then we have Sarah, who we're going back four years. She's from New York, she's a CPA. Four years she's from New York, she's a CPA. And her friend Dan has left Fortitude Trading, who they do a lot of work with, and she's like, oh, that's weird. She tries to get a hold of Dan, she can't get a hold of him. She's also getting evicted from her apartment because the landlord needs it for his daughter and it was already a short lease, and then her short lease is getting terminated as a renter, I would be losing my mind.
Speaker 1:Well, she was expecting it to get renewed. And then he's like I'm so sorry, my daughter's coming back, I really do need this and I do feel like he felt a little bit of remorse, like he didn't really want to, yeah. But then they also kind of describe him as like this creepy, sleazy guy who, like her neighbors, were like, oh, once you let him in one time, like he's gonna show up all the time to your apartment like you're gonna say yeah, sounds like my experience um, and so we're left there.
Speaker 1:So now we're back to Audrey, and this was 10 months ago. She had moved from the city to this quiet neighborhood where she lives now. Sarah is very well liked in the community, particularly by men. She's the Regina George yes, she's also pregnant and her and Sarah are kind of friends. But then she does seem to have a lot of like hard feelings towards sarah, of like, oh, of course sarah walks in and everybody like loses their minds. It kind of it seems like a resentment. But then they're friends because sarah will be like oh, hi, and also audrey watches ends up watching nico her.
Speaker 2:They develop a odd like female friendship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but like in like Audrey's point of view, there's always like this underlining tone of like Animosity.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and Sarah's. Like I should have never moved here, Like in regards to Sarah Mm-hmm, Do we know why? No, we don't. And then back to Sarah's point of view. Like I said, this is chapter for chapter, back and forth, so you're gonna have to bear with us here, like we had to bear with the book. Sarah finds out.
Speaker 2:It was a confusing time for everyone.
Speaker 1:Huh, it was a confusing time for everyone. Yeah, so Sarah finally gets a hold of Dan and Dan was fired from his job and he says I have to go. I have to go meet my lawyer, and he's really down about it. And lawyer she's like well, must have done something illegally. Then this is like a huge plot line for no reason, anyway, correct. And she gets a hold of her realtor because she's looking for a new apartment and they potentially have found an apartment for her. That ends up following through. She gets an apartment eventually, but we're just kind of going to. This is like every other chapter. She's calling her realtor about an apartment.
Speaker 2:And she wants this one, but there's no laundry, or there. You know that it was funny. Some of the descriptions it was very accurate about how, about how like rentals? You know this amazing place is ready with just this, or that.
Speaker 1:What they really mean is yeah and then we have back to audrey. Audrey is questioned at uh, the house about what happened. The detectives are kind of hard on her, but but reasonably so, I think. If you found a dead body, they're obviously going to have a lot of questions for you.
Speaker 2:And she seems like so put off that the police are doing their job.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's also been a lot of break-ins in the neighborhood apparently, and so they kind of question if maybe that's linked together. We find out that Audrey's from England apparently. I don't know if that ever ended up being true, but supposedly she's from England and when she's in the shower she hears like this thudding noise and that freaks her out. Well, because she can't see anything. It freaks her out. She does have a security system and things like that. One of the things. I'm sorry I got to get this out now before I lose it her out. She does have a security system and things like that. One of the things. I'm sorry, I gotta get this out now before.
Speaker 2:I lose it.
Speaker 1:One of the things that I really hate is at the end of the chapter it'll be like and there's a thud and she's in the shower, and then they end the chapter there. You go back to Sarah's point of view and then you go back to Audrey and it's like, oh, it was the chair. And it's like, okay, or what does the landlord have in his hand? Oh, it looks like a switchblade. Yeah, that part it's a measuring tape like, and that happened way too often for me to really care. Like. I'm like, oh, what's it? Nothing, because you've done this 17 times in this book.
Speaker 2:I hope you're hungry.
Speaker 1:For nothing. It drove me crazy. It drove me crazy. It happened way too many times where I was like, oh, I wonder what it's going to be. Absolutely freaking. Nothing is what it's going to be, anyway. So the thud is nothing. So, just in case you're you're curious, sarah, her apartment didn't work out. Um, she also is getting a promotion at work to be a senior auditor and her coworker, celia, is very like jealous of her and has a lot of animosity, and that ends up being absolutely nothing. In case you're curious, yep, nothing there, but there's a lot of tension there. But then they still kind of like do stuff together, like they go out to drinks.
Speaker 2:They go out to dinner. There's a lot of friendly situations going on in this book.
Speaker 1:Weird, I would not have the energy for this. And then also she'll like ask Celia for help with stuff and Celia helps her, but then she's like she was looking at me weird today. It's like okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like you don't have to say every inside thought, girlfriend, yeah.
Speaker 1:It was so bad. And um, then back to Audrey and we're back nine months ago now. So we go from like Sarah's one timeline, audrey's month to month who knows like back to forward and then Audrey present day, just to kind of explain how this goes. We learn a little bit about Audrey's childhood and her mom was really awful to her and said a lot of awful things and that kind of plays in her brain a lot of like hearing her mom's voice like derogatory towards her um.
Speaker 1:See, because I was so lost in this book I hadn't like put that together yeah, and I kind of thought like that's where to me, because she, I'll say, like, towards the end she kind of starts hearing, hearing Sarah's voice in her head, and I kind of thought that's maybe where the title came from. In the Dark, I See you, because she's hearing these people in her head. Okay, almost like they're there. Okay, you know, that's just kind of what I thought, okay. Anyway, we also discover she has this website called Blinkers Off and it's a bunch of people who are visually impaired. It's kind of like a support group, I guess you could say. We also find out that Sarah created a dating profile for Audrey to help her get out and about about she also. So then we kind of start to see that Audrey is doing something different, where she starts downloading the information from Sarah's phone because Priya, one of the neighbors, stopped by to see Audrey. Sarah answered the door, audrey downloads the stuff off her phone and is like we're gonna find something that was so bizarre.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so much sneaking around and downloading so much of it or nothing, anyway.
Speaker 1:So then we find out that Priya and Brian are married and Sarah and Brian are sleeping together. Sarah is also sleeping with everybody else in this town, just throwing that she's sleeping with Brian.
Speaker 2:Ronnie Jack maybe I think there was another one too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all these men that are married, tsk, tsk, yeah. And Audrey kind of like has feelings about it where she's like how dare she? Da da, da, da da. But then she's still hanging out with her and stuff. It's weird. Anyway, back to Sarah. So Dan is still not talking about why he got fired. The landlord does show up. This is the moment where she's like what's in his hand? Is it a switchblade Cut scene?
Speaker 2:It's not, it's not he was just going to measure a closet.
Speaker 1:See how big he needed to make it for his daughter's like shoe collection or something. Anywho, audrey, now she's at the police station. She gets questioned, they do. They ask her about her relationship with Sarah. When's the last time she saw her? She says she saw her at 5.30. She was supposed to babysit Nicole. Sarah never ended up showing up so she went over there. She tells them that Sarah was seeing three different people and they ask her about her going blind. And she said that she had an accident years ago and that's what caused her to go blind.
Speaker 1:Um, there is the detective at one point doesn't really believe that audrey's blind yeah, that was so yeah, and shoves like a chair in front of her and she trips over it because she can't see anything. And then she, she can hear them be like he's like well, I was just curious if she's actually blind and the other detective is like that was cruel. Yeah, a cruel move. So then we have Audrey. Nine months ago, and one of the neighbor's houses was broken into. She's hysterical, her necklace was stolen, her clever Ronnie. And she also starts uploading the cell phone information to a man named Sherman.
Speaker 2:And they're trying to. This Got a bone to pick about that Like the whole. Who is Sherman? And then at the very end I'm like that was just him the whole time I already knew. I feel. Not me. I know. Got so much to the end. So much at the last chapter. I'm like are you fucking kidding me? Are I got so much to the end though? So much at the last chapter. I'm like are you fucking kidding me? Are you fucking kidding me? Are you fucking kidding me?
Speaker 1:They're all the same person, yeah, so, and they're trying to look for where the money went.
Speaker 2:Not going to tell you what money, whose money, how much money, but somebody's mysterious money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I said so, I put in my notes, like is she a spy? Is she a detective? Like I don't even know what these people do most of this book, because they say they do one thing and then they're doing other things, and like I don't really get it. Um, and Audrey says at one point that Sarah is smart but she acts like she's dumb and she also creates an imprint of Sarah's house keys so she can get into her house why, we don't know. Just because. So Sarah decides that she's going to take it upon herself to hack into Dan's trading login to see if she can figure out why he got fired Like a normal person. She's also a hacker.
Speaker 2:The way it just seems like a lot of Just get somebody drunk and get them to tell you why would you go through all this work and like do all these illegal things, like Anyway.
Speaker 1:Crazy.
Speaker 2:Doing Girl. She was always doing the most. This whole book Just doing the most.
Speaker 1:Guess what she finds? Nothing, jack shit, absolutely nothing. Um oh she. So she hacks into his computer system, but she doesn't want to use her computer. So she stayed late and pretended that she didn't save this file. She was going to have to redo it. Celia, she's like, can you help me? And then Celia's like I can do a little bit, but then I have to go. And then she goes into her boss's office to actually log in and access this stuff. And then there's a knock at the door. Oh, great heavens, she's gonna get caught.
Speaker 1:End of scene. Yep, it's the janitor or the security guy and he's like you. Good you working late. Yep, have a good night. Hi hi, hi, cool, yeah, I love that. So then we're back to audrey now, and audrey told sar Sarah that she wouldn't be able to watch Nicole anymore. We find out Nicole has started crawling. Audrey can't see, so she like.
Speaker 2:At one point she lost her quote-unquote in the house and she kind of panicked 14 seconds yeah, yeah, I can imagine that'd be a horrible feeling yeah, um, and she, she says she can't keep up with her anymore and the mom was kind of not great about it, like yeah Was a total bitch about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, she's kind of that way towards her.
Speaker 2:I'm like she's also just kind of a bitch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, the detective also thinks that Audrey might have been jealous of Sarah, and that's why she killed her.
Speaker 2:A lot of that, a lot of pointing towards her, yeah, a lot of that A lot of pointing towards her. Yeah, like she was the crazy blind girl that like killed her friend in a fit of rage and jealousy.
Speaker 1:And it was like Right. And then Sarah is also seeing some guy named Matt, so we get that sprinkled in there. She also tells the detectives that she thinks that Sarah actually stopped seeing all those men a while ago. And she told the detectives that she's an accountant for a private firm. Okay, sure, sarah is currently a fashion consultant, apparently, but the detectives don't think that she is, because she's never had any clientele. Like there's no record of her actually doing anything. But that is her supposed title, allegedly. Yeah. They also question her about Sarah's parents and her family and so on and so forth, and she's like never met any of them. Like Sarah doesn't talk about her past. It is what it is. I've only known Sarah for a year, so no, she hasn't told me anything. And then this is when the detective pushes the chair in front of her and she trips over it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of them re-asking her the same questions. A lot of them re-interrogating her. Her asking if she needs a lawyer, them going I don't know. Do you need one? You're guilty. And then I know my rights.
Speaker 1:And then, four months later, four months before, six months prior, I'm glad I wrote everything down, because I wouldn't I would have sat here and went I there's a lot of detect. They questioned her a lot. There's a lot of people that turn out to be nothing.
Speaker 2:I feel like I didn't read the book sitting here, that's fair. Like looking at these notes and I'm like, yeah, sure, I mean we could go to any chapter and I'd be like your guess is as good as mine, sounds great, who's that, um.
Speaker 1:So then we're back to sarah and it's the security card guard who just checks on her and it's like all working late, she's like Anyway, and then the next day the boss calls her. Yep, the boss calls her into his office.
Speaker 2:Sweating bullets, convinced she's going to be arrested and fired. End of chapter.
Speaker 1:Yep, that's essentially what happened there. And then we're back to Audrey and it's eight months before and her door is open. When she gets back from the police station she's worried that there's an intruder. She calls the police. There's no intruders inside, there's nothing missing. They're very rude to her. Yeah, we also find out that she had a photographic memory before she lost her vision. She had a photographic memory before she lost her vision, so now it's kind of moved to her other senses and being able to recall things really well, which works out for work, mm-hmm. We also find out Audrey has a very weird quirk. Ah, she has a bowl of soil on the counter that she eats.
Speaker 2:Yep, she's addicted to eating dirt and clay-like substances.
Speaker 1:Yeah, earthy substances. Yeah, right, Because we needed something.
Speaker 2:Yep, and she kind of goes to explain like everybody in her online support group has something that they're addicted to, and she had never really shared with the group, yeah, and I never.
Speaker 1:So they kind of explained like the first time that she started doing it I still didn't really like understand it. I don't feel like it was put well enough to make a reader understand. If, like I mean correct, I don't have that issue obviously. So to me I'm like okay, like Pop-Off Queen, yeah all right Sure. But I feel like they should have done a better job at explaining why she has that, because it is attached to the accident that happened to her.
Speaker 2:But like I still didn't get it, we were too busy focusing on four months ago and Sarah to get back to explaining.
Speaker 1:So we're back to Sarah. The boss called her into his office. She thinks that the world is ending. He tells her that Dan was fired.
Speaker 2:Yep, and she's like, oh, yeah, okay. And he's like, are you okay? Like he's coming down with something.
Speaker 1:Like this is what I mean. I feel like every time it's like nothing. Nothing is what I mean. I feel like every time it's like nothing, nothing. And then, and it makes me just want to- bang my head against the wall.
Speaker 2:Sorry, don't be sorry. Yes, I agree.
Speaker 1:It was driving me crazy.
Speaker 2:You are safe with me in this circle of hate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then she goes into a house Whose house we don't know. It's Dan's house, oh yeah, but they make it seem like it's such a thing of like her waiting for, like somebody else to go in, and then her sneak in and it's her friend's house. It was so stupid. Anyway, she knocks on the door. He uh, she tells her that he logged, that she logged into his online account and she's really trying to, you know, get him to tell her what happened. And he doesn't want to talk about it. I can't talk about it, I can't get into it. And then she tells him about the account, how she logged in, and he's like, are you so stupid? Like why would you do that? I told you like I'm speaking to a lawyer. They're going to think it's me and that's a problem and boundaries anyway. And then dan tells her that he is guilty of whatever he's being accused of, which isn't true, which I thought was weird, that I got you know that dan character.
Speaker 2:it is an odd cat. I never really understood the point of him in the story.
Speaker 1:Sorry, it's the dumbest plot line. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:We always go into this wanting to love something, so we cannot reiterate enough how much we were like huh Like I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:What a waste of time. This book felt like such a waste of my time.
Speaker 2:I used a free credit for this, my own choice. You know I had options that I didn't have to do that, but I'm gonna make it everyone else's fault. I got it on Libby. I need to do that next time, so anyway.
Speaker 1:Anywho. So then we're back to Audrey and she's thinking about the past and how there was a patio door that shut 15 minutes past 1 am, like the day that Sarah was murdered or whatever and she has a thought about that and her alarm starts to go off and her back door is open. Oh, she calls the police. They don't care, but she does, and her back door is open and there's like a cigarette in the kitchen window and she doesn't smoke. So that's interesting. And then when the police come, they find that there's multiple cigarettes around the house freak me out.
Speaker 1:That would. That would freak me out too. Oh, and they can't. But the police are like nobody's here, like nobody broke into your house, like maybe you left the door open and she's like no, I didn't and they're like, well, maybe you did.
Speaker 1:Um. So then we have, seven months ago, audrey and there's a community meeting, and during this meeting she's trying to time it perfectly so that way she can break into sarah's garage and put a gps tracker on her car, and then she goes into her house with sherman's help he's like on facetime or something and so she's like, oh yeah, showing him and they're looking for something, don't know what it is, nope, but um, and then somebody comes into the house and she has to hide in the closet yeah, she's gotta hide in the closet.
Speaker 1:And uh, she's on, it's sarah, she's on the phone with ronnie and then she leaves. But we have to have some. You know, she almost got caught. Yep Heavens the stress. And then there's a big argument at the community meeting and the community meeting was about the break-ins and what they should do, and Sarah suggested a night patrol and she volunteered to do it and then all the men wanted to do it because she was gonna do it. It's got like a pregnancy kink or something. And uh, at one point bob hits matt for a reason I didn't care to remember, and sarah, no.
Speaker 1:Audrey asked sherman to do a background check on the people in the community. Got it, see if anything comes back. We end up finding out I'll just say it now because I don't really care we end up finding out that Priya, whose husband is having an affair with Sarah, does have an assault charge from years ago. She's got a record. Yeah, she's 100% that bitch, sure. Then we go to Sarah. We find out that Dan is gay They've never had a relationship like that, but they're just best friends and she might have found an apartment Cool story, but I genuinely don't care.
Speaker 2:I don't know why we're so hung up on this apartment thing, or why was there so much time spent about Thanksgiving weekend when Dan was getting better and Sarah had the cold or whatever, and there was, like so many pages describing the material of his couch, that she had a fever on.
Speaker 1:There was so much wasted pages Like we hear about an apartment about 700 times, not even a dibble dabble of spice.
Speaker 2:Not even a, not even a nothing.
Speaker 1:Nothing. You're gonna be appreciating those YAs a little bit more with their hands brush at least you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I really will. Some chemistry, you know anything, Anything will do Some yearning.
Speaker 1:God Just wasn't those. Anything will do Some yearning. God Just wasn't. Those Wasn't one of those books.
Speaker 2:Nope, still on the Atkins, diet y'all. This is worse, starface, this is worse. Yeah, this is that three-day military bullshit.
Speaker 1:So then we have Audrey. Now she ends up telling her support group online that Sarah has died. Priya shows up. She's all in a huff. Did you hear about Sarah? The police also questioned her about it. She ended up telling her that she asked Brian for a divorce. They start talking about Nicole and Priya says I wonder if she went with her sister Alice. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:She's like who.
Speaker 1:Pretty sure her sister's name is Grace Hindsight. We hear about the fact that Priya and Sarah had a fight two days prior to Sarah's death. Guilty and Sarah goes seems like we have some suspects. It could be Priya, could be Bob, could be Lisa and Jack. It could be Priya, could be Bob, could be Lisa and Jack. They both have motive. Could be Ronnie, could be Matt and Donna.
Speaker 2:Could be anybody in this neighborhood apparently Cue the Law and Order music Doo doo.
Speaker 1:And then she has these moments of like I should just throw something in there to get the police off my case and it's like or you could just like stop being so weird when they question you like? There's a fucking idea, because she keeps going like, she has these moments of like. I should just tell them the truth. I should just tell them what's really going on.
Speaker 1:Yep, what like please bestow us with this wisdom it would have been okay if it was just like here and there, like maybe towards the end, where she's like I should just tell the police like that everything's a lie or whatever, that would have been fine. But her mentioning it 15 times like I feel like that just kept happening with a lot of stuff, where it just keeps getting brought up, where I just don't care anymore.
Speaker 2:Abernathy, either make the book shorter or make it longer so you can talk about these things or just fucking take them out.
Speaker 1:Please, dear God, don't make it longer, Please, please. I can't, I can barely do this, oh gosh. Anywho, back to Sarah.
Speaker 2:When Susie has no idea. She doesn't even know what's going on in this story.
Speaker 1:But yeah, back to Sarah. I'm basically just telling Susie. So we find out that Celia has been frosty towards Sarah since it was announced that she's gonna be promoted. Tell us all this time. We also hear this three or four times, yep, because she knows it's announced and then it's maybe actually happening, and each time we get a descriptive part about how Celia's just being so negative towards her about it. Anyway, sarah goes to Dan's house. He doesn't answer his phone. She hears some sort of moaning inside. She finds the key on his door frame. Turns out he took a bunch of. She hears some sort of moaning inside. She finds the key on his doorframe. Turns out he took a bunch of pills. She ends up calling 911. Dan is in the hospital, correct, you get? I mean, that's 50 pages worth of details there, yep. Then we're back to Audrey. Six months ago, she tells her group that she's addicted to eating earth-like things like clay and dirt.
Speaker 2:And her group goes WTF mate, like they were really childish about it.
Speaker 1:They really were.
Speaker 2:Now, mind you, this is a support group of other people discussing what they have issues with and what they're struggling with.
Speaker 1:No, they're all blind.
Speaker 2:That's the thing, they're all visually impaired.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what the group is for.
Speaker 2:Okay, I thought it was a like, just an odd addiction.
Speaker 1:I don't know what to describe it, but I thought it was like a support group for addiction. Okay, because she says all these people are addicted to things too.
Speaker 2:Yep, but it's like less odd, but the common denominator is they're all visually impaired Ew. See, so much makes more sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it'd be great if that was a crucial part of the story, but it's not. Anyway, bob comes over. I kind of like Bob. He really kind of stands up for Audrey with the police and things like that, like when her house is broken into, he comes over.
Speaker 2:He's the ex-military neighbor right, I don't know. Okay, he's the one that the picture got taken from.
Speaker 1:Yep, okay. So this is where he comes over and says his house got broken into and there was a photo of his friend that got stolen. And we're at that. Audrey has a bad dream of somebody strangling her and chasing her, and she wakes up, are you sure it?
Speaker 2:wasn't sleep paralysis, Like just wondering girl, or was there someone?
Speaker 1:in your house strangling you.
Speaker 2:Was it really a dream? I have so many thoughts and wonders.
Speaker 1:It was a dream because she talks about where it comes from.
Speaker 2:If this was like a thriller movie, though that would add so much creepiness to it, oh my god.
Speaker 1:Almost like if this was a thriller.
Speaker 2:Almost yeah it. That would add so much creepiness to, oh my god, almost like if this was a thriller, almost.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it wanted to be um so close, but so far yeah so then, um, someone is at sarah's house that ends up being ronnie, and audrey goes to her closet to listen and she tells the detectives that that's the only place that she can hear stuff in Sarah's house because their walls connect. That's a lie. She has a listening device in Sarah's closet and that's how she can hear. It is because she has, like this little.
Speaker 2:That is so creepy.
Speaker 1:That she's listening to. We're back to Sarah. Dan's lawyer calls, sarah answers and he essentially tells her that he's not being sued yet but there's an investigation into whatever. And um, dan wakes up, he tells her that he's accused of embezzlement and he goes into the story of, like his financial situation is not great because he had a boyfriend who asked him for money and he, like went to prison and then he got out of prison and was continuing to ask him for money and he's worried what his family will think because he did give him money and that would be his reason, quote unquote for embezzlement.
Speaker 1:I'll let you guys know now. He didn't do it, so this was just a complete waste. Like he admits to it. I'll let you guys know now he didn't do it, so this was just a complete waste. Like he admits to it. He says, like what his motive would be, and then he didn't do it. Yeah, and then we're supposed to care about the investigation on who did do it. Yep, dude, Dude. The energy is so low because I just really did not like it.
Speaker 1:So then we're back to Audrey. Now Detective Green comes over. He wants to check out her garage for whatever reason, right, and then he again starts to question her about what happened that night, and she tells him the same thing.
Speaker 2:These cops wanted it to be her, so bad. So bad Because they didn't want to actually figure out what was going on. Yeah, I would give anything for some goddamn fish men to come out of the porch right now. And oh, yeah, I would give anything, give me something. Yeah, like God, make her an earthbender please, just anything.
Speaker 1:For real. She can actually light herself on fire and she's going to scorch all these people in the town.
Speaker 2:I would even finally take she was faking, being blind or something. Oh, I was waiting for it. Anything, anything.
Speaker 1:She ends up Something comes out On like Ronnie had threatened Sarah and she thinks that Sarah was trying to blackmail Ronnie.
Speaker 2:It's like they investigated using only small-town Facebook arguments. Oh my gosh. They're like concrete, circumstantial evidence they got on the neighborhood watch pages. Yeah, for real. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for real. We also find out that at one point Sarah asked Audrey to track down some guy named Adam Briggs Says he's in Boston, it's her old boyfriend, and then the police tell her that they want her to go stay with a friend or something, because the break-in that the police don't think was a break-in, but they think it's enough Turns out it is they're like.
Speaker 2:we don't want to get sued by whoever knows you after you turn up gone, so go stay with a friend. You should go stay with a friend.
Speaker 1:And she's like I can't, I have no one, I'm on a loan. Well, also like she. It's also like the environment Like to put a lot to ask of somebody and also she doesn't have anybody, so she's nope, can't do that. And then she also mentions that the security team is going to come and check out her alarm to make sure it's working. Okay, right, cool. And then Sarah also gets a little, or not, sarah, sorry, audrey Either. Or Gets a little bit, like somebody might be watching her, but she's going to handle it herself. Little lady, you can't see. You call the cops every time you hear something what are you going to handle?
Speaker 1:what are you going to handle yourself? You can't see anything.
Speaker 2:Your alarm system you're worried doesn't work she sounds a lot like I used to in that moment of but but they'll change, I can change them. It's a very similar analogy. You're like okay, well, here we are.
Speaker 1:Guess what? No changes, yep, and they don't live here anymore, anyway. So then we're back to Sarah. Dan gets released from a hospital, they go back to his place and Sarah gets really sick. Dan takes care of her.
Speaker 2:This is that Thanksgiving week where we hear all about the springs and the couch that she took a nap on and her fever and scrambled eggs.
Speaker 1:She has a really bad fever, but she refuses to go to the hospital. Yep, okay, at this point I already knew what the plot twist was gonna be here. I was pretty sure I knew what it was Okay, because they also mentioned Sarah's ex no, yeah, sarah's ex. Somebody's ex, yep, named Mac, and how much they miss them. I have three.
Speaker 2:I thought that was Audrey's ex, because I kept hearing something about Mackenzie and I literally have in my notes WTF, mackenzie, yeah.
Speaker 1:Who you be.
Speaker 2:Where you at. What's going on about an ex.
Speaker 1:And the feel of their hands, and blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:Do you think they were sweaty hands like mine? Yeah probably.
Speaker 1:And then we have Audrey. Five months ago, before the murder, the background checks came back. We find out Priya was charged with assault from a girl named Caitlin because she was flirting with her boyfriend and she punched her.
Speaker 2:Oh hell no.
Speaker 1:Right, which I mean Priya's husband's having an affair with Sarah. So suspect numero uno. But Audrey doesn't tell the police any of this, because why would we right?
Speaker 2:Why would we be helpful in the investigation?
Speaker 1:She's just kind of keeping it in her back pocket unless she needs to. I don't know why these cops are being so weird with me.
Speaker 2:I'm only being weird and withholding information.
Speaker 1:They're like God bitch, because she keeps being like maybe I should mention something about Priya, get him off my trail, anyway. So then we find that Audrey's mom, barbara, was abusive towards her. Sarah then helps Audrey get ready for Priya's birthday party.
Speaker 2:The hot mess express that that is. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Don't care. Back to Sarah. Dan has one week to return the money to the company. Sarah thinks it's either somebody who's in the company or somebody that hacked from outside of the company, but more than likely it's somebody who still works there. They're trying to get information on it and who could be stealing. But it's now a lawsuit and not a police investigation, because they don't want it to be public. So they're going to take him to court. Okay, judge, judy, here we come. This whole investigation thing was the biggest mess ever, so we're just going to run through it real quick. Okay. So Sarah and Dan decide that they're going to get in contact with a girl named Ann who works for Fortitude Trading, maybe, maybe, and they're going to hack into her computer and download everything. So she acts like she's going to go in for a job and maybe do something different. She has this whole interview with Anne. Dan calls and Anne has to step away from her desk. Sarah goes, then downloads all the information off of her computer.
Speaker 1:Mission impossible style, do do do, do do, Because they're spies. All of a sudden, yeah, you're an accountant or whatever. I don't even know what it is, yep, anyway. So she downloads all the information there. They're like on a time crunch because they only have one week until Dan has to return the money. And how are they ever going to figure out who it is? And then they end up going through all the information about like, like, who has access to payroll and this and that they said they were always doing the most.
Speaker 1:And they're like well, this person and this person have access to it, so it has to be one of them. But if one of them is doing it, then they both have to be in on it. So then they decide it's this lady, Maria, who they are going to confront. Quote, unquote. This is the stupidest thing I've ever. This really irritated me. So then they sit outside the building and wait for Maria to come out. And Maria comes out and she stops and she gives money to the homeless man. So that means that she can't be the embezzler. Because why would an embezzler give money to a homeless man?
Speaker 2:Because I just got off scot-free and feel comfortable enough to be able to give back.
Speaker 1:But she'd be a horrible person if she embezzled, which I do agree with. But I'm like this is your reasoning for why you don't think it's Maria. All of a sudden, anywho, they end up finding out that it's this lady named Kelly, who used to have Dan's job or something. She works within the company I thought it was the person who had Dan's job before and they end up she calls somebody and they put together this package that proves that it's Kelly. They take it to the employer, say here you go, and he's like thanks, guys, all you know, this is enough to get Dan's name free. And then which would literally never happen Kelly gets arrested. Kelly was the embezzler. This whole thing was such a waste of time. That's that story. We're just going to leave that part there, because that went on for freaking ever.
Speaker 2:And if you still don't, we're just going to leave that part there, because that went on for freaking ever. And if you still don't totally get it same, go figure it out, let me know.
Speaker 1:Because there's not a lot to it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's why, and all of this is distracted from where the murder, the point of this entire book anyway. So, audrey. So that sums up sarah's plot line for a lot of the book. So now we're just gonna kind of focus on what audrey's doing, okay, so, audrey, present day she calls her boss, greg, and he tells her that the client is feeling very nervous because of the police activity, with now Sarah being RIP'd. Detective Novak comes to tell her they need to ask her more questions, because of course they do. Then we're back to Audrey. Five months ago she goes to Priya's birthday party and while they're doing the cake, sarah shows up, which she was not invited to Reasonably, so Yep, the cake. Uh, sarah shows up, which she was not invited to reasonably, so yep, and uh, they find out. Oh, shows up anyway. Yeah, they find out that they. Well, audrey is pretty sure that sarah is also sleeping with jack, who's somebody else's husband, because there's a lot of like petty behavior there.
Speaker 2:There are so many like single people in the world, why do you got to go for bitches' husbands? Yeah, Like.
Speaker 1:And then in this moment we see like Audrey has a lot of anger towards Sarah actually, and she like is so frustrated and she's so like disappointed, essentially, in like what Sarah's doing, and she like breaks a glass in her hand and priya's sister goes to clean it up for her and then priya comes to check on her and then sarah comes and priya and sarah have this whole moment of bickering and essentially priya tells her to leave them alone. The big this is the one thing that did throw me off. Uh, the body was actually not sar's, but it's Kelly Ferguson's body, the woman who ended up being guilty of the embezzlement.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:So then it's where's Sarah? And Sarah told Audrey that she used to work in insurance and at one point she was also in a bad accident and she has a scar on her neck because of it. Audrey tells the detectives that there's no way that Sarah would have left Nicole behind and that something must have happened to her because she wouldn't have done that Four months ago. Audrey hears Bob banging on Sarah's door and she's mad, or he's mad and he's threatening to call the police. Oh, she broke into Sarah's house again and submitted photos to Sherman to analyze what for? For something.
Speaker 1:Actually, we don't really even find out what all these photos are for, but it's for something. Apparently Somebody broke into Sarah's house again, and then we find out that sarah does have a gun on her and nothing new comes out of these photos or anything that she's submitting. Um, we do find out that a golf club was what killed sarah and also the security system. People come out to check all of her stuff and her cameras and or her security stuff. They determine everything's fine and they say that that we're going to check your cameras though, because somebody knows your code and that's probably how they got into your house, sure, um, then we have one month ago.
Speaker 1:Sarah wants Audrey to track somebody down, a guy who moved to California. Um, sarah tells her about her accident, quote unquote, but like not really, she doesn't really explain much, she just is like this is where I got my scar.
Speaker 2:You want to know how I got these scars.
Speaker 1:Literally Um. And then Priya and Audrey are kind of going on a walk and she tells her about sarah and brian. Oh yeah, priya's like pissed too, like I thought you were my friend.
Speaker 2:Like I'm not acting like that's so out of the blue to say, but I just like pre-acted like she was the one sleeping with her husband yeah, instead of being like I'm just telling you now it's okay to be upset, but I can't watch this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because Audrey knew.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then present day she calls Greg, her boss, to tell him that it was actually Kelly who died and not Sarah. And then Priya and Bob come over and Priya says that supposedly it was Ronnie's golf club speculated that killed her. It's not, this is never. It is a golf club that kills her, but we never actually figure out why or how or where it came from, or whose.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no.
Speaker 1:Anyway, then we have one month ago where we have the moment where Nicole ends up crawling away and Audrey can't find her. She kind of freaks out. Sherman is working on chasing down Sarah's friend and then Sarah ends up asking Audrey to watch Nicole and she's like really late to pick her up. She's like really late to pick her up and then she goes over, or after she picks her up, audrey goes over to Sarah's house and is like we need to talk and she's like what is it? Like I need to hurt, I gotta go. And she's sweaty and she doesn't really get why. And then later she hears Sarah and Ronnie fighting through the telephone she has imported, implanted in Sarah's closet, and then Sarah is threatening Ronnie to pay up about something. Okay, we never find out what that is, in case you're curious, but we just need something. So now we're going to go back to Sarah and to celebrate them getting Dan off free. They go out for drinks and stuff and they get a cab. Sarah ends up getting dropped off just a little bit before her apartment and she ends up getting mugged and the person also like pushes her into the street and she gets run over by a car.
Speaker 1:Her accident. Audrey's boss tells Audrey that she needs to tell the police about everything that's going on, and she's like, no, I'm so close I can't yet. And he's like, okay, one more week. The detectives ask her to come in again. Sherman says one of the accounts that they've been watching is flagged. Somebody accessed it and they found the money and the account's been frozen and they know who accessed the account. Okay, this is your plot. Like this is the exciting stuff, but we still have no clue what they're actually talking about.
Speaker 1:Yep, so then we're back to Sarah. Sarah's in the hospital, reasonably so. She. Both her arms are broken. She's been kind of passed out for three weeks or so. Dan is the one that found her Um. She tells him that she needs to close all our bank cards and stuff and he tells her that he already did um and she listens to her voicemails and then she passes out again.
Speaker 1:Three days ago times, uh, three days before the accident audrey tells sarah that she really can't watch nicole anymore. So she didn't even tell her when she before. But she finally tells her I can't watch nicole. So she didn't even tell her when she before, but she finally tells her I can't watch Nicole anymore. Sarah's really short and snippy with her and Audrey is worried that Sarah is onto her. Anyway, okay, right, got it.
Speaker 1:Sure, um, sarah is in the hospital and she ends up like having to be resuscitated because she ends up having a lot of complications. Um and dan. Then she wakes up from another surgery that she had to have and dan um is trying to reassure her that everything's okay. Uh, but also the people who took her purse went and drained her savings account and the bank says that she's the one that did it, because they had like camera footage and stuff and they think that it was her, but it clearly was not. At that point, kelly admits that she embezzled the money and she goes to jail for it would you look at that this is such a waste of everybody's time.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, Yet you're the one holding it all together right now. I had to do step by step because I just Like we're towards the end of the book here.
Speaker 2:So don't worry Please. If you watch this episode all the way through, we'll love you even more than we already did. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1:Think of how much time it takes to read a book. Everything that we've said up until this point is 99% of the book.
Speaker 2:Yep, and there's so much more, just random wordage to confuse you in between this. I'm like man, if this is how the story was told, I'd understand so much better yeah, but it's just, it's not.
Speaker 1:It there's so much wasted pages where you're just like, anyway, okay, that was nothing like. Oh, um, anyway, one day ago, before the accident, priya tells Audrey that Brian wants to move out, but also Sarah. She finds out that Sarah is actually not seeing Brian anymore, so he just doesn't want to be with Priya. I guess Sarah doesn't bring Nicole over like she was supposed to. Oh, audrey tells Sarah that she knows about her and Brian and she's like well, actually we're not seeing each other anymore and also you've been hiding stuff too. Audrey calls Sherman to tell him that that happened. Nothing freaking happens. Audrey hears Nicole crying and also Audrey is missing. Mackenzie, who I put in here Pretty sure this is Mack from Sarah's story.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Anyway, audrey is very angry at Sarah. Back to Sarah in the hospital, she tells Anne that she hacked into her computer and blah, blah, blah. Anne tells her that she does feel like she should still go for the position and the job that they had been talking about. She thinks she'd really be perfect at it. Sarah really likes this idea all of a sudden, even though she's been working for this promotion. But okay, got it, got it. And uh, sarah is still having a lot of headaches. So it ends up up coming out that Sarah has a hemorrhage in her brain or she's bleeding of the brain, something along those lines, and that's what actually makes her blind. So, da-da-da-da-da, sarah is Audrey.
Speaker 2:All of this motherfucking, just for it to be. They're the same.
Speaker 1:They're the same, so you're reading about the same person throughout the whole book.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like one person, but another person, but someone that did steal one person's identity, but there was never a yep.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So we're back to Audrey now the detectives because they said they wanted her to come in. She goes in. They say we know you're lying, we've looked into you and we can only find four years of your name. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. She goes to the bathroom. She tells, she calls up Greg and tells her that she's going to tell the cops everything. She ends up telling the cops she's a forensic accountant to find patterns and behaviors. She works for this company to help clients find missing money from people that have been stealing money from them. She's been tracking Sarah for a year to find money that was stolen from a client, but also money that she had gotten stolen. So Sarah not Sarah is the one who went and drained her account when she was in the hospital. Sarah Connelly is Audrey's name.
Speaker 2:Da-da-da.
Speaker 1:The gasp. I gasped that I figured out a hundred pages in, a hundred pages in. But so Sarah had stolen Audrey's identity when she got in that accident, and so then Audrey had to kind of create a new identity because she had bad credit and she couldn't get into anywhere, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 2:And instead of like moving on with her life, she was like I'm going to take this new life and go stalk the old me, yeah.
Speaker 1:So she changed her name to start over. Um, so, quote unquote Sarah's real name is Grace Foley and she's from Pennsylvania. So, quote, unquote Sarah, who told her that her sister's name was Grace that's actually her name and she. So Sarah's. What? In tarnation, audrey's trying to get her money back that Sarah not Sarah had stolen. And then Kelly how she ended up being there was she had tried to track down Sarah after she got out of prison, because she's a crazy person, and she obviously didn't find the real Sarah. She found the person who stole her identity. Oh yeah, oh my God, grace.
Speaker 1:So Grace, quote unquote Sarah and Adam, the person she's looking for, have been working together and then they had separated at one point. I do wonder if this is the dad of Nicole. We never found out, but I do wonder. And they did find him, but then they he ended up like coming here they find him, but they don't find him. Yep, so while Sarah's in the hospital the real Sarah she's obviously blind. Now and this is when she starts really hearing her mom in her head say all these horrible things. Dan takes her to her apartment, her new one, um, he stays with her for a while and then she's like I have to learn to do this on my own. She has nightmares about the incident, and this is also when she starts eating dirt. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yep, um, oh my gosh, you have to keep diving, I can do this.
Speaker 1:Um, audrey. Now she tells Detective Green how she found, um, sarah's old grace documents in their house. So they knew that for sure she'd been stealing people's identities, I suppose, um, and then the detective ends up dropping her off at home. Plot twist who's in her house? Sarah, not sarah. Surprise, surprise, um, she has a pew, pew. Audrey's like where have you been? She's like where's my kid? Yep, and we find out that sarah's been responsible for breaking into everybody's houses, including Audrey's, and she's like how did I not?
Speaker 2:realize Sarah smokes and you're like, oh my God. Literally.
Speaker 1:Because she's like I've smelted on her.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'm like okay, I thought you and all your fucking senses were so secure.
Speaker 1:We find out that Sarah not Sarah has been hiding out at Ben's house A person in town Cool, you guys didn't think like what did she tell him? Everyone thinks that you just got murdered and you're hiding out at my house. Okay. Sarah says that she knows who Audrey is. She's looking for Nicole. Audrey says that she thinks that her sister has Nicole. She doesn't have them. Audrey ends up secretly calling Detective Green. He turns around and we find out that Kelly had been kind of like stalking Sarah and she wouldn't leave her alone. And then she was there and Adam was there. And when Kelly showed up she was like, oh, you're not Sarah. And then Adam just hits her over the head with the golf club.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm glad he stayed calm, didn't overreact Rush into things.
Speaker 1:And then he's like we have to leave.
Speaker 2:I'm not leaving without Nicole.
Speaker 1:So they were packing up Nicole and then Audrey showed up and so Adam made her leave without Nicole. Sure, the detective ends up talking down Sarah, gets her to remove the weapon, but the weapon accidentally goes off and Audrey passes out, okay. And then she wakes up and she's not injured in any way, shape or form and they have arrested Sarah. And so now she hears Sarah, not Sarah's voice in her head, that she's getting ready the next day or whatever. We also find out that Sarah had to have reconstructive surgery on her face after the accident. So she kind of talks about not really knowing what she looks like, but she's really kind of taking a new lease on life, I guess you could say and you know Sarah had more fun playing her than she did actually being her, and she needs to change that. So she puts on her lipstick and she's going out for a walk.
Speaker 2:Anyway, as someone that's so afraid of being alone. I'm not understanding why they didn't have a seeing eye dog.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 2:Like I know that they're not the same as protection dogs, but then you would know, like am I just hearing shit, or is that what the dog would tell you? Like anyway.
Speaker 1:Um. So she's out for a walk, a whack. She's out for a whack, looking for her. Khakis, she's out for a walk and, um, she gets a call and it's sherman and he surprises her.
Speaker 2:And he's there and sherman's dan duh which I did not realize until, like literally the last 40 seconds on the page.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm so sorry and I'm like are you fucking kidding me?
Speaker 2:This guy has been Hugh the whole time.
Speaker 1:Like okay, sarah, quote unquote, not Sarah. Her story was she was on the run because there was a warrant out for her arrest, because her sister was attacked, and she ended up attacking the guy back with a crowbar and that's actually how she got her scar. They never end up finding Adam. He's long gone. Dan has a new boyfriend named Martin. And oh, the ending here. Yeah, she, audrey finally calls Mackenzie. Mackenzie Mack, who has a partner, liz, and then multiple years, yeah, so liz ends up answering and she's like, oh, don't play dumb. And she's like I don't know you're talking about liz and mac broke up like four years ago and it was because of Audrey. And so then Audrey calls Mac. The end. I said plot where, yeah, I brutal, this was so brutal. Yes, I'm sorry. If you like this, I'm sorry, that's fine, we won't try to change your mind we all have.
Speaker 2:We're just gonna make it abundantly clear that this was not ours.
Speaker 1:This was not for me in any way, shape or form, no, like that's the cliff notes to the story, and it was still like just so repetitive and that made so much more sense. So annoying.
Speaker 2:That was helpful. I've been waiting for this to happen, so I could like understand the book and I still don't love.
Speaker 1:No, I love it me neither. I'm so glad this wasn't like our first one, you know. Oh, we would have made it no. So okay, okay, fan cast.
Speaker 2:I almost didn't do one. I almost didn't because, like I, just I couldn't.
Speaker 1:So mine took me about four seconds.
Speaker 2:I uh, I didn't do very many either. What's?
Speaker 1:fan cast.
Speaker 2:Oh right, what is fan cast? Fan cast is if we were going to make this book into a series or a movie, like, who would we cast as the characters? So okay, you want me to go first. Sure, who do you want to start with, dan? Okay, penn Bagley.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's good, I did Matt Bomer. Okay, yeah, good choice, audrey.
Speaker 2:Carrie Coon from White Lotus was where I saw her recently.
Speaker 1:Carrie Coon Mm-hmm. Oh, okay, I haven't seen White Lotus.
Speaker 2:I saw her recently. Sherry Kuhn Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I haven't seen White Lotus. I highly recommend Audrey. I did A man of Cypher.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:I like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's a good choice. Sarah Sarah, not Sarah. Yeah, sarah, catherine.
Speaker 2:Which is weird. Which is weird Because, like, the character's name was Sarah, so then it was weird to take someone by the name of Sarah as well.
Speaker 1:I was like, ah, weird. I was like why is that weird? Where's she from?
Speaker 2:And baby Nicole, a cute baby.
Speaker 1:I did not cast her For Sarah, I did. Jennifer Lawrence yes, I would like to see her in like a psycho. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I want, yes, yeah, I just think she'd do really good.
Speaker 1:I really liked Jennifer Lawrence, I do too, and Amanda Seyfried.
Speaker 2:I really liked them.
Speaker 1:So I'm really hopeful that if they did make this into a movie, that it would get us to like it yeah. So that was my fan cast.
Speaker 2:Wow, like it. Yeah, so that was my fan cast.
Speaker 1:Wow, so final thoughts? Yeah, thanks guys. No, what's your final, oh, final thoughts? Let's wrap this show up, shall we?
Speaker 2:final thought I don't have any questions. I just never want to read anything like this again.
Speaker 1:Fair. My final thoughts were I really didn't like it. It was a little brutal. Not a little, it was really brutal. Actually, this was worse than reading a book for school. And I looked at the reviews and you lying ass bitches everybody. No, they weren't very great. The reviews weren't great. The ones that were decent was like wow, what a plot twist.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the kind of. The only review that I was seeing was like loved all the twists and turns and very thrilling. I'm like you're a family friend.
Speaker 1:I yeah, friend, I yeah, no, no, no, no. I read a lot, I read a lot and this was horrible to me. I'm sorry, it's just. Hey, they can't all be winners, right? Yep, they can't. They can't all be winners, we don't.
Speaker 2:They can't all be winners, right? Yep, they can't. They can't all be winners. We can't like everything.
Speaker 1:No, this wasn't it For sure, so I do like that she ended up really being blind. Yeah, I did like that I did as much as I would have liked to have some plot and, like her, not being blind would have been a part of it, but I did kind of like that she was actually blind.
Speaker 2:That wasn't made up you know, I also would have loved if, like, uh, if she was hallucinating and there never was a baby nicole, that would be crazy yeah, just somewhat like something yeah crazy shit.
Speaker 1:That would have been crazy yeah, final thoughts give me something crazier. She's hallucinating and sarah was actually her past life. Yeah, like that would have been crazy before she had the accident.
Speaker 2:And there was no one ever next door. Yeah, it was just the voices in the closet, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that would have been good. Let's look for more of a horror episode.
Speaker 2:What else could we do? Yeah, yeah, two bitches that never wrote a book, what else could?
Speaker 1:we do. No, I'm not for writing, I'm for reading and not that again. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:That's okay, we'll move on.
Speaker 1:We persevere, persevere, persevere we, paul revered, you know, hey, that was a lot for me to get through. I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2:She did an incredible job, so you're welcome.
Speaker 1:Now you don't have to read it, alrighty.
Speaker 2:Like, follow, share, subscribe, all the things that's it, I think. Yeah, thanks, guys. Okay, we'll come back with something else next time I'm picking the next book.
Speaker 1:We're not doing this mystery wheel. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:Okay, we had to learn.
Speaker 1:We did, where we all submitted an option. I am proud to say this was not one that I decided yay. Connor what. It was one of your choices. Susie and Connor both voted for this, so we put it on the random wheel twice. We called for help twice and this is what we got the police, who don't care about your break-in Yep.
Speaker 2:Okay, join us next time for something else, literally anything else Please be better.
Speaker 1:Please be better. Okay, thanks guys, bye, bye you.
