Mister Tender's Girl: A Novel
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"How far are you willing to go for Mister Tender? At fourteen, Alice Hill was viciously attacked by two of her classmates and left to die. The teens claim she was a sacrifice for a man called Mister Tender, but that could never be true: Mister Tender doesn't exist. His sinister character is pop-culture fiction, created by Alice's own father in a series of popular graphic novels. Over a decade later, Alice has changed her name and is trying to heal. But someone is watching her. They know more about Alice than any stranger could: her scars, her fears, and the secrets she keeps locked away. She can try to escape her past, but Mister Tender is never far behind. He will come with a smile that seduces, and a dark whisper in her ear..."--Page 4 of cover.
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This is a great thriller. Alice is strong and likable. She is suspicious of people around her, but not so much as to be unreal. The reader gets hints before a twist comes, but the twist still manages to surprise us most of the time. There were a couple things that were not hints that fooled me.
I loved the pace of the book. The twists came in a way that surprised me without making me roll my eyes because it was too perfectly placed. The characters were great, even the bad guys were believably bad. There was one twist that made me roll my eyes, but as the story progressed that twist was well incorporated and I could go back and see the clues that hinted at this twist.
The one complaint I have is that I wanted an epilogue to see what happened weeks or months or years later. Without that, it felt like a few storylines were not wrapped up. I think that was a conscious decision, but I didn't like it.
