Swipe Right for Murder
by Polly Harris
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GENRE: New Adult Thriller
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BLURB:
DATING
IS TOUGH. ESPECIALLY IF THE GUY YOU LIKE MIGHT BE A SERIAL KILLER.
After a
devastating heartbreak and a string of short-lived, failed relationships,
college student Georgie Itoyama has now decided to approach dating in the same
way that she approaches everything else: methodically, logically, and
efficiently.
Georgie
downloads countless dating apps, determined to find the love of her life as
easily as she orders jeans online. And while her love-at-first-sight
aspirations don’t exactly come true, she does find someone she likes. Quite a
lot.
There’s only
one problem. Girls are going missing at Georgie’s university, and all the signs
are pointing to . . . him?
But that’s
ridiculous. What are the chances that she’s dating an actual serial killer?
Then she
matches with Nate. Mysterious, intelligent, and oddly fixated on solving the
local disappearances. As Georgie’s relationships deepen with each of her guys,
she unwittingly finds herself caught up in the mess that is murder, intrigue,
and the nightmare of online dating.
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Excerpt Two:
“They found her body in a ditch. She’d been there for a couple days or so.” Shannon almost drops her precariously tall pile of books upon delivering this news to me. She shakes her head and starts shelving.
“That’s awful,” I say from a few shelves away where I’m trying to alphabetize the children’s section. Kids are not very good at putting books back from where they found them.
I’d heard the news this morning back at the dorms. I’d been in the bathroom doing my makeup with a few of the other girls on my hall, when the RA had come in and told us about it. Gossip spreads like wildfire at a small school, especially when it involves murder. I’d had a surprisingly numb reaction to it. Much like my reaction now. I keep expecting it to hit me. For me to feel sad, upset, afraid—anything. I actually only feel relief. Horrifyingly enough
Relief that it wasn’t me who found her. That someone else gets to carry that trauma and not me.
“That’s your school, isn’t it?” Shannon asks.
“Yeah.” I think back to finding Whitney in the stairwell. The image is strangely void in my mind—I remember walking down the stairs, discussing bacon flavored cupcakes with Olivia, I remember the heels of my sneakers squeaking against the linoleum. And then it’s blank. I do remember the feeling though. The denial. The blood rushing in my eardrums, my heartrate accelerating before I even understood why.
“So creepy,” Shannon comments, almost to herself.
With a jolt, I remember what Miles had said at the froyo place a few nights ago. How some girl from Altmar had gone missing. He didn’t mention a name, probably didn’t know it, but I have the feeling it’s this same girl.
A part of me wants to think like Amelia did when Miles first mentioned it. This girl was probably caught up in the wrong crowd. She probably knew some nasty people, was maybe even involved in something illegal. Anything to curb the nagging fear that’s rising up inside of me. The fear that this could happen to anyone. That I could be next.
But I think back to Shannon’s ramblings from a few minutes ago. She’d been such a sweetheart. Her parents said she never partied, never did drugs, was a perfect student. Who would murder such a girl? This perfect, sweet girl.
But none of us are actually as good as we seem, I think.
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Review: Online dating can be bad…especially if one of your dates could be a murderer.
“Was having a boyfriend that great anyway? Why would I want another one?”
I liked the candid slapstick narrative and the refreshing wit overall, but, at times, it can go off on a cynical ramble, which slows down the story. It takes the girl a while to sign up for all these dating apps and setting up a profile. There’s a lot of lag when she’s going through the dates—the ordeal, the process, the talking. Her quick thinking was good and kept you entertained, but I just wish the story would’ve been just as quick.
The whole thing is mostly a diary of the nightmares of online dating. It’s a fairly nice read overall.
My rating: 3 stars
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Polly Harris is the author of six YA novels and runs her own editorial company where she works on books just like this one. When Polly isn’t writing or editing, she can be found cuddling her cat (professionally known as her editorial assistant), crafting, or swiping through dating apps.
Twitter: @PaulineCHarris
Facebook: Facebook.com/PaulineHarrisEditorial
Email: harrispaulinec@gmail.com
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0965VC7T1?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420
https://www.paulineharriseditorial.com/my-books
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ReplyDeleteI liked the excerpt.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the best review you've gotten for this book?
ReplyDeleteThanks for your honest thoughts. Sounds like an intriguing premise.
ReplyDeleteLauren @ www.shootingstarsmag.net