Brazier plays delicious homage to Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” and Nathaniel West’s The Day of the Locust as the action builds to a climactic out-of-control 30th birthday party that involves guests in a battle of “simunition” (“Real guns but fake ammunition”). Lyla is happy to accept Demi when she applies to be their new tenant, and she soon becomes unwittingly engaged in Lyla and Graham’s nefarious schemes. Meanwhile, Demi Golding, who’s homeless, stumbles into a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take on the identity of a well-paid director of a tech company. To alleviate their mutual emotional ennui, the couple initiate a dangerous game with the well-to-do tenants they solicit for the guesthouse on their property. Thank you to Eliza Jane Brazier and Berkley Books for my gifted copy.Lyla Herschel, the principal narrator of this fiendish psychological thriller from Brazier ( If I Disappear), suffers from boredom, as does her super wealthy husband, Graham, with whom she lives in a grand house perched on a cliff in the Hollywood Hills. Some of it you will figure out, but not all. The anticipation of who was actually murdered drives you mad and you fly through the pages. Messy mom friendships, mean girl attitudes, backstabbing, lies, deceit, barn love, soul crushing trainers, and the fear that you are not good enough. This book wraps you up in everything nouveau riche. As someone ends up dead, you are left to wonder who. There are sinister backstories that are galloping to come out. The best way to do that, money! This is not just any barn. You can feel the money just driving up to the arenas needs to convince the head trainer and owner to let her daughters ride there. Maple is up for it and Heather knows just the barn they need to be a part of Rancho Santa Fe Equestrian. Piper has already jumped ship on this idea since Heather is so intense and unrelenting. Heather grew up riding horses and wanted that same experience for both her girls. They needed to get her out of the situation and California sounded perfect. Their younger daughter Maple was dealing with traumatic bullying at her last school in Texas. The Parker family has just arrived in California to start their new life. It made you want the best, to be the best, and to not stop at any cost. Eliza Jane Brazier brought this element to life. Even then I knew horse people are not like normal people. Do I have your attention now? I used to ride horses when I was younger and in a completely different climate.
Not just any barn, the barns that run millions of dollars to build and will cost you around $10,000.00 a month to board and ride there. Who doesn't want to become part of the horse world? It is enticing, exciting, exhilarating, and highly competitive.
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