{"id":252,"date":"2023-02-16T17:58:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginasellsbooks.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2023-02-16T18:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T23:01:49","slug":"finlay-donovan-is-killing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginasellsbooks.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Finlay Donovan is Killing It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT\u2026except, she\u2019s really not. The new book she promised her literary agent isn\u2019t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head. When Finlay\u2019s overheard discussing the plot of her new novel with her agent over lunch, she\u2019s mistaken for a contract killer and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet\u2026and she soon discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional counterpart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I just finished this (not really, this review is old) and holy cow. This book was fantastic. Funny, witty, and charming. I absolutely adored the characters, although my favorite was Vero. She&#8217;s so spunky and I love it. I loved that Finlay felt like a real single mom. Her life wasn&#8217;t glamorous or fun, it was real, messy, and challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will think about this story for a long time. I felt so many emotions while reading and none of this felt fake. I could totally see a single mom ending up up in this scenario (maybe that would just be my family?). 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