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BOOKTOUR: The Divorce Lawyer by Ellie Monago

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#BookReviewTour ~ The Divorce Lawyer by Ellie Monago @bookouture @NetGalley

My Thoughts Esther has a real moral problem; she has to represent a client who she knows is manipulative and a liar. The story revolves around how she assists Peter, a relatively wealthy and powerful man, in kidnapping the little boy from his mother, whom the lawyer-narrator perceives as the principal decision-maker. Nevertheless, Peter gets terrible news from Esther’s past and threatens to…

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I’ve always wondered what my husband told him. What you discover is that the scariest part of openness isn’t the sex; it’s the pillow talk. You can never be entirely sure what other people know. What slips out after they’ve slipped it in.

Ellie Monago, Neighborly

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Book Review! Neighborly by Ellie Monago

Book Review! Neighborly by Ellie Monago

This week’s review is for Neighborly, a work of fiction, by Ellie Monago. I am pretty sure this was an impulse buy of an Amazon Daily Deal. It was billed as a suspense novel, but to be perfectly honest, I bought it because the neighborhood in the book is called Aurora Village and even though I knew from the description that it wasn’t about my hometown, that bit of nostalgia compelled me to spend…

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BOOKTOUR: The Divorce Lawyer by Ellie Monago

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BOOKTOUR: The Divorce Lawyer by Ellie Monago

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Severe TRIGGER WARNING for this book. This book contains sexual trauma involving minors and "swinging" among semi-consenting adults. If you are sensitive to things containing trauma or sexual exploitation, please do not read this book or my review. Love thy neighbor... Kat and Doug are over-the-moon when they move into their dream neighborhood. It has all of the bells and whistles they think they want and need to provide their young daughter with everything she needs to succeed in life. We quickly meet the neighbors and get to know their quirks... and their secrets. Neighborly was written by practicing therapist Ellie Monago. She has authored two novels and is a busy wife and mother. This book is filled with quite interesting characters, and we are quickly introduced to them as the novel takes off. Our main character and narrator, Kat, starts off seeming very insecure and standoffish. Her husband, Doug, seems extremely delightful and charming and quite the doting husband and father. They have a four-month-old daughter, Sadie, and have just bought their first home. This neighborhood is like a character all its own, holding secrets, twists, turns, and a deadly revelation. There are some heavy topics within this book. And I would have greatly appreciated Ellie Monago placing a trigger warning disclaimer in the book's introduction. The story is actually really good, and I genuinely enjoyed reading this book. The twists were well placed, and the overall writing is very smart. Monago is a practicing therapist, as she can describe emotions and feelings extremely well. She makes you really feel uncomfortable with certain instances, which work within the writing but leave you shocked as a reader. Be prepared to have your breath taken away, several times, not necessarily in a good way. Please read this book with caution; as I mentioned at the beginning of this review, this book contains several trigger warnings. Overall, I did enjoy the book. I was taken back by how certain plot points were just dropped in my lap, but I think the "shock" factor was intentional. I would be willing to read a novel by Ellie Monago again, but this time I will go into it with a more prepared frame of mind.

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Women spend their lives trying to set up a certain image—through their clothes, their hair, their shoes—that will serve as a dog whistle for other women of similar ilk.

Ellie Monago, Neighborly

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It was never too good to be true. It was always exactly good enough (and bad enough) to be true.

Ellie Monago, Neighborly

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Then I'm free. My bindings are lifted, and the room is flooded with light. It's my bathroom, with the gray-blue tiles, like I'm being tossed on stormy seas. I'm breathing heavily, and I realize that I'd been under a blanket made by my mother-in-law, the kind of loose knit pattern that seems like a net. I'd never actually been trapped, but sometimes the illusion is enough. It's like how people can drown in water a foot deep.

Ellie Monago, Neighborly