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A Better World
A Better World: A Novel | Sarah Langan
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The author of Good Neighbors, one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American suburbia (NPR), returns with a provocative and disconcerting novel about a woman questioning her new home in an exclusive company town after a night out goes terribly wrong. Welcome to Plymouth Valley. A company town owned by the powerful conglomerate BetterWorld, it features state-of-the-art houses, pristine country clubs that are always open, and pantries that never go empty. If youre lucky enough to live here, you never have to leave. Ever. Linda knows her family is lucky that her husbands job allowed them to move here. She fervently hopes that Plymouth Valley is the glorious fresh start her family so desperately needs. But in a new place filled with the one percent, shes terribly lonely. Linda is surprised but relieved when the four most important women in Plymouth Valley invite her on a night out. Shes determined to win them over, but things go disastrously wrong when a party-crasher warns Linda shes in over her head. The events that follow and their explosive aftermath send her on a downward spiral as she questions everything she thought she knew about her new home, BetterWorld, her marriage, and most of all, her own instincts.
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1.5⭐
I should‘ve DNF‘d this one since early on I was finding myself bored as shit with it. For some reason, I stuck with it. It must‘ve had something to do with liking this author's previous novel. It had the makings of something I would‘ve liked it just didn‘t deliver for me…but apparently, it did for others.

See comments for Exit Black..⬇️⬇️⬇️.

AudiobookingWithLeah 2⭐The narration is what killed this for me. She has a great voice and her dialogue was really quite good…but everything else felt like AI was reading a book to me. That, coupled with the super fast pacing made this a less than mediocre listen. Normally, I like my books fast-paced but this one took it to a whole new level because I had a lot of WTF is going on moments.
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