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You Were Made for This
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
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A gripping page-turner for fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, Michelle Sacks's You Were Made For This provocatively explores the darker sides of marriage, motherhood. and friendship. Doting wife, devoted husband, cherished child. Merry, Sam, and Conor are the perfect family in the perfect place. Merry adores the domestic life: baking, gardening, caring for her infant son. Sam, formerly an academic, is pursuing a new career as a filmmaker. Sometimes they can hardly believe how lucky they are. What perfect new lives they've built. When Merry's childhood friend Frank visits their Swedish paradise, she immediately becomes part of the family. She bonds with Conor. And with Sam. She befriends the neighbors, and even finds herself embracing the domesticity she's always seemed to scorn. All their lives, Frank and Merry have been more like sisters than best friends. And that's why Frank soon sees the things others might miss. Treacherous things, which are almost impossible to believe when looking at this perfect family. But Frank, of all people, knows that the truth is rarely what you want the world to see.
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kezzlou85
The Dark Path | Michelle Sacks
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#Scarathlon #TeamCryptKeepers #PhotoChallenge
Day 9: Dark. This looks creepy. I do like a bit of scandi noir. @LiseWorks

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Reagan
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
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Mehso-so

Sam and Merry move to Sweden, leaving behind drama and mystery. Merry‘s BFF Frank comes to visit.

Eh 🤷🏼‍♀️I loved the beginning of this book. There were minor things to develop characters that appeared and then were just gone like they never happened. It was just such good momentum for the first 150 pages and then, then it just dragged on a bit until the end, which I was personally no fan of.

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Reagan
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
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I took this book out from the library because I thought I had read this author before, I was wrong and this is a debut novel. I am digging it! A positive accident. Merry and Sam have moved to Sweden with their infant son. Very quickly, this domestic bliss is definitely not bliss and there are some major skeletons in these new Swedish closets. Then Merry‘s closest friend comes to visit. I hope to do some reading in the sun this May Long!

rubyslippersreads That bookmark! 😻 3y
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wifey.n
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
Mehso-so

Good book but dragged. Understanding of different types of relationships. Sometimes you are your own victim. Would reccomend if you can take dragged books.

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Clwojick
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
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One of those stories where you hate all of the characters, despise the storyline, but yet you simply can‘t put it down. Not sure how it‘s going to go down, but I‘m in it til the end.

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Victoriahoperose
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
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Mehso-so

This started out so strong and I was sure I was going to really enjoy it and then once it got past the initial shocks of the story, it began to drag. I thought it wound up being very predictable and the twists weren‘t really necessary because the ending was very obvious. I liked the storyline and the writing, I just found it to go on too long.

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Lel2403
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
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Pickpick

Well, what a disturbing read. Sam, Merry, Frank, Karl and Elsa in Sweden. Sam and Merry move from the US to live an idyllic life in a rural area of Sweden. Little baby Connor much loved but also resented in some ways. It all goes horrible wrong and the tension builds right to the very end. I can‘t say I ‘enjoyed‘ it but also I couldn‘t put it down. My full review : http://lelsreading.blogspot.com/2018/06/you-were-made-for-this-michelle-sacks.ht...

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scowler1
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
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Mehso-so

As the opening chapters became increasingly uncomfortable to read, the suspense built up nicely. At the halfway point I was totally immersed, but the the ending? I'm still not sure if I like it or believe it, but I am still thinking about it so that counts for something. There needs to be a rating in between so-so and pick.

Cinfhen I agree, the Litsy rating needs some fine tuning!! 6y
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guinsgirlreads
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
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Pickpick

A pretty disturbing domestic thriller. I really like her writing style, makes for a quick, fun read! A baby is killed, and it seems everyone in this one is capable of doing it!

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guinsgirlreads
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
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Starting this one! I have so many new ones in my #librarystack to get through!

TheFunkyBookworm The library stack struggle is real! 6y
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Mrscastro
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
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Beautiful day out at the Farmers Market! ❤️☀️📖🍒

tammysue Great photo 👍🏻 6y
Mrscastro @whatshesreadingnow Thank You 😊 6y
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JHSiess
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
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"A lifetime you spend entwined in someone‘s world, the cord that connects you thick and ropy and impermeable to the storms. Me, you, us, we. Two lives and two people, knotted together in a tight fist like the gnarled roots of ancient trees, so deep and twisted that you cannot distinguish one from the other, that you cannot uproot the one without killing both. Part you, part me. Best friends." #NetGalley #MountTBR #WeekendReading?☕

AJones Beautiful excerpt! This books sounds very interesting. I just added it to my stack. Thank you!💛 6y
JHSiess @AJones, it is a deeply disturbing psychological thriller. A brilliant debut from #MichelleSacks. 6y
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kate_reads
You Were Made for This | Michelle Sacks
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Trying to finish this but I keep getting distracted by the BBMAs aka Nick Jonas‘ arms