Have you ever wondered what it would look like if there was a whole family of wealthy Amy's (a la Gone Girl)? Look no further because this is a book I will not be forgetting any time soon.

The calculating and devious Herschel's are the most interesting people I've ever had the pleasure to read about. Graham and Margo have been toying with the lives around them for decades with the end goal of ruination. Graham's wife, Lyla has always been a passive participant, only looking, never involved. Graham and Margo intend to change that.

Holy moly, I have never found another book where I hated the characters so thoroughly yet couldn't put it down. I honestly would have read this in one sitting if it weren't for the whole work thing I'm supposed to do during the day. I feel as though the pacing in some parts were a bit odd but altogether a very enjoyable experience. I 10/10 recommend this thrilling and absolutely wild read. My mind is still spinning.

Good Rich People is a hedonistic, twisted view on the vices of the ultra rich.

Graham and Lyla are not only wealthy, they are so wealthy they drink Moet like it’s water. Living in a glass castle in the hills of Los Angeles, Graham, Lyla and his mother Margot try and find ways to occupy themselves.

One of their favorite ways? Destroying the life of the tenant they allow to live in the guest house on their property. Margot and Graham love the thrill of destruction and live for the chase. When Lyla finds herself a participant instead of spectator for the first time, things go rapidly down hill.

The new tenant moves in with her own set of baggage that throws the game’s plot drastically off course. Will Lyla be able to handle the game without losing her own life?

I had really hoped to enjoy Good Rich People but I just had a hard time getting into it. Lyla and Graham were just so unlikable, as was the character playing the tenant. It was hard to enjoy a story where I absolutely loathed all the main characters.

Thanks to Net Galley, Berkley Publishing Group and Eliza Jane Brazier for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion!

I did not connect at all with this book or the characters, yet so many others loved it. I had trouble or maybe just didn't want to believe people would come up with a scheme like the one in the book. The scene with the dog also bothered me and made it hard for me to finish the book.

The great thing about books is everyone is at a different point in life and what doesn't work for one person might work perfectly for someone else!

Good Rich People is like a bad wreck that you can't look away from. I was cheering for these hidious people. I felt like the only thing missing was my very own glass of Moet. Obviously, people love reading about the outlandishly wealthy, especially when they are behaving badly, but these people take it to the extreme. A very fun thriller!

This was a great read! It is full of twists; at one point I thought I knew what was going to happen, then the author took a left turn, and went in a different direction that what I thought. It is definitely a great book to read if you love mysteries and thrillers!

What in the world did I just read? Good Rich People was a wild ride from beginning to end. At no point did I know where this book was going to go. I've never read a book with such an unlikeable cast of characters. But I grew to love to hate them. And honestly could not put this book down because I needed to know how this one was going to end. I would liken this book to a darker, more sinister Life and Death Brigade from the Gilmore Girls. If you love to hate the very wealthy, you will enjoy this wild ride! I can't decide if I loved this one, but it is memorable and will stick with me. And I'll be recommending it to friends, just so we can chat about it.

A destitute woman deceives her way into the guesthouse of a Hollywood Hills mansion and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs in the next intoxicating novel from Eliza Jane Brazier.

Lyla has always believed that life is a game she is destined to win, but her husband, Graham, takes the game to dangerous levels. The wealthy couple invites self-made success stories to live in their guesthouse and then conspires to ruin their lives. After all, there is nothing worse than a bootstrapper.

Demi has always felt like the odds were stacked against her. At the end of her rope, she seizes a risky opportunity to take over another person’s life and unwittingly becomes the subject of the upstairs couple’s wicked entertainment. But Demi has been struggling forever, and she’s not about to go down without a fight.

In a twist that neither woman sees coming, the game quickly devolves into chaos and rockets toward an explosive conclusion.

Because every good rich person knows: in money and in life, it’s winner take all. Even if you have to leave a few bodies behind.

Good Rich People by Eliza Jane Brazier

What a messed up story. Yet fascinating! I couldn't stop reading this crazy tale about these crazy rich people. And i didn't want it to end! This would be great adapted into a film. I seriously enjoyed this tale of these rich (and poor) people playing these demented games because WTF!

Thank you Netgalley and Berkley for the advanced readers copy in exchange for my review.

Wild and entertaining, but it definitely went off the rails for me in the second half.

You have to have a pretty strong suspension of disbelief for this one which is fine, but I really didn't care for how much disbelief I had to have in the second half of the book.

And that ending...

Do "Good Rich People" actually exist? According to the premise of Eliza Jane Brazier's new novel, absolutely not. From the outside, Lyla seems to have everything - her perfect, attractive husband, a beautiful home and wealth upon wealth; however, things are a bit more complicated than they appear. Lyla, Margo (her mother-in-law) and Graham (Lyla's husband) engage in twisted games of finding successful tenants to move in, all for the sport of tearing them down until they're reduced to a shell of their former selves.

I enjoyed the ingenuity of the plot, which made for a quick page-turner. The characters are not meant to be likeable..I don't think I liked any single character but somehow I still really wanted to see what happened to all the characters by the end. I did find the ending a bit anticlimactic based on the build-up but I was satisfied with a certain character getting what was coming to them. On a random note, I didn't enjoy how often Graham's "animal scent" was referenced .. it felt like a euphemism for really bad body odor - not something I enjoyed picturing every time it was mentioned.

Overall, it was a quick and entertaining read but I did want more from the ending. Thank you Berkley for my gifted copy in exchange for an honest review.

This story came very close to being a five-star read, but unfortunately, the lack of rich people paying their dues kind of blew it for me. I know I know, putting a moral high ground on a book like this may seem silly, but I just had my hopes up for a different kind of ending. I found the characters interesting, and the timing of bringing in the secondary POV was perfectly done. However, there were moments when things dragged a bit, and I would have liked more action and less planning around that. Simply put, this book is good, fast-paced, and fun, but it just needed a little more oomph to be a 5 star read.

Good Rich People is the second book of Eliza Jane Brazier's that I have read. I actually DNF her last book (If I Disappear) so I was hoping this one would redeem her last novel. Good Rich People is naughty, dark, and twisted. I was a bit confused as the story progressed when it switched to Demi's perspective, but the story soon made sense. It was an interesting domestic suspense, but nothing that blew me away. Brazier's writing is atmospheric and she has a way of creating extremely unlikeable characters, but the plot was a bit flat for me.

Eliza Jane Brazier comes back with another stellar thriller which explores the gap between the mega rich and the poor. Enthralling and so entertaining from start to finish!

This is a fun, popcorn thriller about class, wealth, and status. The ending was a bit predictable but the way there was fun enough to keep me engaged. An enjoyable, quick read, but forgettable once it's over.

“There is blood in the fountain turning the water an eerie rust color. I call someone to drain it.”

This is how this sick story begins. Let me start by saying these rich people are assholes! The biggest assholes you will ever meet. I hated them all immediately! I’d need bottles of Moët-their drink of choice - to survive a day with them.
The main character Lyla is married to the gorgeous, successful, totally-messed-up Graham. They live in a glass house on the edge of a cliff on Graham’s mother Margo’s property. She lives in a castle of course. Margo is the most vulgar rich person of all.
“When you’re rich, you can control everything. Except the richer.”
Lyla married into this cult where rich people don’t cook, shop, or even walk “Rich people don’t walk. Their shoes aren’t designed for it.”

Lyla is bored! Graham is bored! Margo is bored! They are all so bored and self-centered that they create their own entertainment. The game: invite successful people to live in their guest house and then destroy their lives. Hence the blood in the fountain when the game went too far. I don’t know how, but I actually started to feel sorry for these rich bastards!

The newest target Demi moves in. But this woman is pretending. She’s hiding deadly secrets of her own. She won’t go down without a fight. And the fight gets serious quick!

I went down to 4 stars because I wanted more from the ending. It comes full circle, but I wanted a bigger bang for my buck! This book was stuffed full of rich people that were so fun to hate.

“ I wonder if wealth is like heroin. Being high: You don't feel good. You don't feel bad. It's the absence of feeling. Good and bad cease to exist."

Definitely, an author I’d read again!

I love a good rich people problem story and this took things to the next level.

The couple in this story is lyla and graham. Really though, it’s lyla, graham, and grahams mother. They have more money than they know what to do with so in an attempt to stave off boredm, they invented a game. They rent out their guest house, but only to self made money people. They HATE boots trappers and take turns at ruining each of their tenants lives. Lyla doesn’t actually want to play the game but graham has a way of getting her to do what he wants, so she goes along.

Their latest tenant is Demi- a woman who has always felt like the odds were stacked against her. She moves into this guesthouse and unwittingly becomes the subject of the upstairs couple’s wicked entertainment. But Demi has been struggling forever and has a few secrets of her own. she’s not about to go down without a fight.

I really had fun with this. It’s a little silly and super dark, but there’s also really thoughtful juxtaposition between the the gluttony and excess of those that are wealthy and the invisibility of those that are not. I also liked how the city of LA was presented and kept turning the pages to see how it would end. While neither woman is particularly likable, I did enjoy their sarcasm.

I started out really into this twisted dark thriller. But then it just got so dark, and every single character was so unlikeable, that I couldn’t read the last 20%

When I first saw this cover, I knew I needed it and it totally did not disappoint!

I was hooked immediately and totally binged this devilishly addictive read in a day!

I loved the satirical perspective of the privileged community and I found it wickedly funny! With some truly savage and fun characters, this clever and thought provoking story was wildly entertaining!

With an abundance of twists and turns, this is one dark and compulsive read you don’t want to miss!

Let the games begin!

Holy unlikable characters. I mean these are TRULY AWFUL PEOPLE but I couldn't stop reading about them. I flew through this book in just one day. I enjoyed the alternating points of view between Lyla, the wife, and Demi, the tenant and it was very easy to root for neither of them. I will say the twist felt rather ~obvious~ but the pure wickedness of the Herschel family made up for that and kept me entertained.

If you're someone who does not enjoy unlikable characters, even if they're well done, this book is not for you. But if you can get behind reading about some rich people who definitely aren't good, this is not one to miss.

What does it say about this book and it's characters that more people upset about the dog dying than the humans?

You can see the polarizing effects of this book: 5 stars loved the near avante garde hyperbole, the 2 stars just couldn't jive with the over-the-top-ness, and the 3 stars are still stunned and trying to figure out what just happened. There are so many strong reactions to this book!

I feel like the author kept saying "yes, AND" and "make it MORE" while crafting the outline for this book. It's a dark, satirical look at wealth and classism, but so dark and satirical and biting that it's comical (I mean, those character names...). The characters are terrible, despicable human beings that you don't care what happens to them but you can't stop reading this wild ride of a book. You turn every page just wondering what they're going to do next.

That being said, there are some issues with the plot that kept me from rating this a 5 star. There are two characters that were added, and could have been interesting additions to the plot, but weren't fully actualized, for example the housecleaner who appears out of no where (or not) and is part of their daily lives but we never get to know her. I get that she's not of the wealthy class so our characters would never "see" her, but the author truly missed an opportunity to let us see behind the scenes. Maybe they were added as a foil to the ultra-rich?

Another plot issue that didn't sit right was the issue of time. The story is told from multiple POV and in order to do so, we bounce around in time seeing the same scene from two different POV. Understandable, but something about it was jarring, which may be the point, I think, as I write this. The other issue with time are the jumps in setting (?) for certain characters. For example, we are outside on a hike with two characters and the next moment one of them is in jail for trespass. Again, probably done for it's jarring effect to make the reader on edge.

So if you're looking to read something different, this certainly fits the bill.

I can't wait to see which patrons I recommend this book to; it'll be interesting to see their reactions.

I have read Eliza Jane Brazier's previous book, If I Disappear, and though I found that book to be predictable, I felt this book warranted giving it a go, and so I picked up a copy.

I found this book to be a darker and in some parts, more brutal and violent in the writing than her previous book, most of which didn't add anything to the story.

I struggled with how to rate this book, and after consideration I went with my 3 star rating as shown because the book did keep keep me reading, despite the somewhat disturbing and darker parts. I also found the transition between the narrators to lose me a couple of times in terms of who the narrator was, especially during the more suspenseful/action parts.

I feel like if you enjoyed this author's previous book and you go in prepared this book is detailed in the descriptions of some more violent parts, then give it a read, but I might suggest you borrow a copy.