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Loading... Woman of the Year: A Novelby Darcey Bell
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Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:A deliciously twisty thriller about the dark side of female friendship and a revenge plot that gets a little out of hand from the New York Times bestselling author of the "intense, captivating, and astonishing" (New York Journal of Books) A Simple Favor. Twenty years ago, gregarious Lorelei and mousy Holly became fast friends as students in the same college psychology seminar. Taught by an expert in control and human behavior, the two students also grew close to their charismatic professor. But in one twisted moment of gaslighting, their friendship flamed out and Lorelei's once-promising future fell apart. Flashforward, Holly has everything Lorelei ever wanted, while Lorelei is a lonely cat lady. Now, Holly is even up for an award at a Woman of the Year ceremony, and Lorelei finally has the perfect opportunity to get the revenge she's wanted for years. But she's not the only person who has been obsessively following Holly's career—and when someone winds up dead, Lorelei realizes she may be in danger, too. No library descriptions found. 
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Except he didn’t. Lorelei hates the “Woman of the Year” Holly Serpenta because she destroyed Lorelei’s life back in college. Lorelei has become a “cat Lady” because her cats are the only one who understand her. Also her cat “Catzilla” has managed to make them both internet stars and Lorelei into the new woman of the year after Holly’s death.
It is the college they both went to, with the lecherous professor and the ex-Nazi Head of Psychology, that are all to blame for Lorelei’s breakdown. The lover/professor fails to recognize Lorelei as a lover, Holly and the professor share a secret passion, or so Lorelei thinks, and together they steal Lorelei’s college cat and substitute one identical in looks, but not in a temperament.
Everyone is against her, even her parents, and they are all conspiring to “Get” her.
The first 40 pages of the book were the same paranoid issues repeated endlessly, a rather annoying introduction to what might have been a nice beach read. But to have the same theme pounded at the reader for the vast majority of the book makes it too dreary to think about. That the ending proves Lorelei right in her unusual convictions doesn’t do anything more than make this reader wonder how much, if any, of this book is autobiographical.
If not in deed, then perhaps in thought. (