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[jennblogsbooks]

💬 Do you ever have a difficult time getting back into your normal routine after a trip? I am seriously struggling this week. I feel like I have a million things to do, and I keep forgetting half of my to-do list 😩 . 🌼 . I recently finished reading THE STRANGER GAME by Peter Gadol, and all I can say is this is a very different book than I expected. I was thinking it was going to be some intense thriller, but it was more of a bubblegum thriller in my opinion. It had its moments of suspense and intrigue but I was always waiting for the shock that never came. . 🌼 . Rating: 3/5 🌟 . 🌼 . Thank you to @tlcbooktours and @hanoversquarepress for the free copy in exchange for my honest review. . 🌼 . Goodreads summary: . Rebecca’s on-again-off-again boyfriend Ezra has gone missing, but when she notifies the police they seem surprisingly unconcerned. They suspect he has been playing the “stranger game,” a viral hit in which players start following others in real-life, as they might otherwise do on social media. As the game spreads, however, the rules begin to change, play grows more intense, and disappearances are reported across the country. Curious about this popular new obsession, and hoping that she might be able to track down Ezra, Rebecca tries the game for herself. She also meets Carey, a player willing to take the game further than she imagined possible. As her relationship with Carey and involvement in the game deepen, she begins to uncover an unsettling subculture that has infiltrated the world around her. In playing the stranger game, what may lead her closer to finding Ezra may lead her further and further from the life she once lived. . 🌼 . #freshflowerthursday #freshflowers #jennblogsbooks #thestrangergame #petergadol #itcouldhappen #tlcbooktours #hanoversquarepress #newbooks #booksandflowers #bookreview #goodreads #honestreview #bookbeau https://www.instagram.com/p/BpF0YYNBmme/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gr7gjkv33y0l

[theeyelinermanifesto]

"The Stranger Game is a sharp-toothed commentary on the ways in which 'following' can foster a pretense of intimacy between strangers, and how the falsity of this intimacy-its utter lack of substance-often creates a perilous hunger for more: more access, more communion, more knowledge. It's also a fun, moody, twisty thriller, with a sun-touched, West Coast vibe...as much Joan Didion as Patricia Highsmith." -Scott Smith, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins A literary suspense novel in which an eerie social game goes viral and spins perilously—and criminally—out of control. Rebecca’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies the police, they seem surprisingly unconcerned. They suspect he has been playing the “stranger game,” a viral hit in which players start following others in real life, as they might otherwise do on social media. As the game spreads, however, the rules begin to change, play grows more intense and disappearances are reported across the country. Curious about this popular new obsession, and hoping that she might be able to track down Ezra, Rebecca tries the game for herself. She also meets Carey, who is willing to take the game further than she imagined possible. As her relationship with Carey and involvement in the game deepen, she begins to uncover an unsettling subculture that has infiltrated the world around her. In playing the stranger game, what may lead her closer to finding Ezra may take her further and further from the life she once lived. A thought-provoking, haunting novel, The Stranger Game unearths the connections, both imagined and real, that we build with the people around us in the physical and digital world, and where the boundaries blur between them. . . • Thanks so much to Hanover Square Press and TLC Book Tours! . . @hanoversquarepress #petergadol #TheStrangerGame #newbooks #mustread #thriller #suspense #itcouldhappen #tlcbooktours @tlcbooktours #bookish #bookstagram #booknerdigans #libraryofinstagram #readordie #booklover #epicreads #bookdragon #booknerd #booklove #bookblog #readersofinstagram #instabook #readersgonnaread #bookreviewer #bookster #currentlyreading #bookcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/Boom5v0l-OM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v24iw09nzc99