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Uninspiring and dragging\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n George Bell\u2019s reputation as a womanizer never failed to cause stirs, and despite her unease, Alice went ahead and married him. But after a strange encounter with one of George\u2019s ex-girlfriends, a girl who supposedly drowned, Alice starts to get suspicious about George\u2019s hand in the girl\u2019s disappearance. As she digs deeper into the girl\u2019s past, shocking secrets come to surface that threaten to destroy everything she holds dear. The story is told from multi-person perspective and oscillates continuously between the past and the present. The narrative is tedious at the best, as Rayner fails to build up any suspense in the narrative. The characters come out flat, and it\u2019s hard for the reader to care about any character including the murder victim Ruth. Overall, there is hardly enough incentive for the reader to finish reading the book. Disappointing!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Uninspiring and dragging\u2026 George Bell\u2019s reputation as a womanizer never failed to cause stirs, and despite her unease, Alice went ahead and married him. But after a strange encounter with one of George\u2019s ex-girlfriends, a girl who supposedly drowned, Alice starts to get suspicious about George\u2019s hand in the girl\u2019s disappearance. As she digs deeper into the girl\u2019s past, shocking secrets come to surface that threaten to destroy everything she holds dear. The story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[91,460,178,1008073,856121,309,4511574,4965455],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-books","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-suspense-and-thriller","tag-thrillers-and-suspense"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-pl","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/the-girl-before-you.png?fit=255%2C391&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Girl Before You<\/h2>\n
by Nicola Rayner<\/h3>\n
Avon<\/h4>\n
Pub Date 22 Aug 2019<\/h4>\n
ISBN 9780008332730<\/h4>\n
PRICE \u00a37.99 (GBP)<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"