When I was younger I would commit the ultimate crime, I read the last chapter, first.

I hated secrets and I felt books kept them from me!!

I just had to know EVERYTHING without pause.

I have since overcome this slight jist of madness and I wanted to high five myself today on how far I have come.

I relapsed….

I was all hyped up and ready to go. Poured a glass of wine, hit the bedroom early, and grabbed my book:

The Winner

Teddy Wayne, you little rascal, you!

This book is twisty! The suspense was present early on and I just couldn’t help but take a peak at the ending! I’m sorry, I couldn’t help it!

This book is fantastic and even though I did cheat, I didn’t ruin the book for myself! There is no way I could when you have an author like Wayne, behind the pen.

Don’t believe me? Check out this teaser:

Conor O’Toole has never been anywhere as casually glamorous as Cutters Neck, a gated community near Cape Cod. It’s a sweet deal for the summer: free lodging in a guest cottage in exchange for tennis lessons, luxuriously far from the cramped Yonkers apartment he shares with his diabetic mother.

In this oceanfront paradise, however, new clients prove hard to come by, and Conor has bills to pay. Then a sharp-tongued divorcée appears, offering him double his usual rate. Soon he realizes Catherine is expecting additional, off-the-court services for her money, and Conor tumbles into a secret erotic affair unlike anything he’s experienced before.

Despite his steamy flings with a woman twice his age, he simultaneously finds himself falling for the artsy, outspoken girl he met on the beach. Conor somehow finds a way to manage this tangled web—until he makes one final, irreversible mistake.

A dark, explosive literary thriller that brilliantly skewers the elite, Whiting Award winner Teddy Wayne’s unputdownable novel is cinematic, shocking, and a psychological masterpiece.

Conor O’Toole is financially struggling young law school graduate who falls into a Tennis Pro job in a small gated community in the Cape Cod area. He works on drumming up business while he studies for the bar exam every night. He is a sympathetic character, charismatic and with a small chip on his shoulder about his upbringing. Every step he takes towards financial freedom lands him further in financial jail as he shoulders his law degree bill, his mother's diabetes medication and other bills that accumulated when he was a child. You are really enjoying his journey and rooting for him for sure! When his path crosses the very wealthy and very single Catherine, he makes a decision that will change the trajectory of his life.

The first half of this book was incredibly well written and I hung on every word. It seemed familiar though -like a story I had read before. BAM! What happens mid way and the rest of the story is literally a roller coaster off the rails. Teddy Wayne was able to shock me, convince me, and keep me captive until the very last page. If you like thrillers, this is a new one for you!
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This was a heart pounding, edge of your seat thriller, Highly recommend. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for my honest review

This book is risqué. I don’t think it totally worked for me. Apparently this isn’t typical to what the author normally writes. I’m not really sure this book sold me to go through his backlist.

What a wild ride! I hesitate to get into detail as this book's many surprises deserve to be experienced for oneself. I'm not entirely sold on the ending but I might have missed something along the way.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!

That was definitely different! I really wanted the main character to not be found guilty! I think that's one of the few times I really pushed for the bad guy lol This book was about a tennis player\upcominglawyer who gets to stay at a prestigious cottage for the summer and finds himself in a compromising relationship with a mother and daughter! The daughter he seems to love but the relationship with her mother is a bit crazy! They have some wild sex that she pays him for! Then the mother finds out he's dating the daughter and things go downhill from there! It was a truly interesting and good read! The ending I'm not to sure about but it still ends favorable! I definitely recommend reading this book as it was well worth reading! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one! Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!

I wasn't sure what to expect from this book as I wasn't familiar with the author. It was pleasantly surprised and wow did it have a lot going on!