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Revenge is a dish best served ICE COLD. Enjoy Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone.



This was the book that I picked up after the hit An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen and I honestly had a hard time believing that anything could keep my attention like Anonymous Girl but Jane Doe holds its own and it is a great fallow up! Jane is a Wicked and Tasty protagonist who I think I might have a lady crush on knowing how awesome she is. This book will have you cheering for the semi-evil, amoral, revenge minded protagonist, you must read Jane Doe. Jane, the female protagonist is a sociopath, or so she believes herself to be because of her horrible upbringing. The flecks of humanity come from two people her friend from college (who has committed suicide). Also, Luke who I loved in this novel. She is a book nerd who teaches herself emotions by reading and watching movies so she knows how to act. The story revolves around Jane playing a cat and mouse game with Steven, who you will think is a weak SOB. Jane plays the weak girl that needs a man. While Jane is really just making fun of him with her camera’s and jokes. I devoured this book in all of two days while sick in bed, Sad thing is it’s been on my kindle for over a year. Shame on me.
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Jane is a sociopath looking to avenge her best friend Meg's suicide. Finding the guilty boyfriend Steven, who drove Meg to suicide, has Jane creating an image of herself as a shy meek eager to please woman that Steven starts to date and verbally abuse. Jane is quite good at her pretend role. Steven is so condescending along with his pastor church leader father that she has a fun time gathering information to turn the table and destroy him. Along the way she runs into an old flame from college that makes her question some of her sociopath behavior to fit in. ( )

Five stars, because although some parts of the narrative drug for me, it's specifically because I already knew the sort of man Jane's after. If you have as well, you'll be right there with her too...most of the time. And yep, it's a romance. And yep, that ending is bare-your-teeth-in-a-fierce-grin excellent.

Go read this one. ( )

Kind of a watered down version of [b:The Female of the Species|25812109|The Female of the Species|Mindy McGinnis|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1455917180s/25812109.jpg|45668311]. The writing was decent and the suspense was good - there were some pretty good quotes in there about sexuality and gender and life but something was missing to take it to the next level. Jane was interesting. She was strong and fierce and flawed and somewhat messed up but she had her own code of morals that was admirable. The humour was funny - Jane was highly amusing. It was fun to watch her screw with Steven. He clearly deserved it. On the other hand the whole story was building up to this amazing revenge plot and it just fell apart. The ending was funny (I liked the neatly tied up revenge) but the story had built up to a very different conclusion. I felt like I was anticipating something much gorier and got a milder censored plot. A good beach read. Solid three stars. 3.5 for the first three quarters of the book, losing half a star for the ending. ( )

First I'd like to thank NetGalley for providing me with this review copy in return for my feedback.

I was pretty disappointed with this story after reading a number of exceptional reviews. A lot of the reviews were from women, so perhaps the story struck a chord from women who have come across too many men like the targets in this story. I'll admit that they were low-life scum in their attitudes toward women, but I think Jane was looking too hard to blame them for her friend's unfortunate suicide. She looked very hard at their behavior, much of it imagined, and when she found anything she didn't like, that was enough to condemn them, even to death if it suited her. Although I wouldn't lose any sleep if someone like that died, I really think ignoring him is the right course of action for someone who doesn't treat you with respect unless there is a reason you cannot.

So, I didn't like the guy Jane targeted at all, and felt no sympathy for him or his father. But I also didn't particularly like Jane either although I did feel some sympathy for her. But that was hard, because of her actions.

Aside from this, there was just too much of the same thing over and over, hearing her justifications and reasons for her revenge. I get that she's got this antisocial personality disorder and doesn't really care about people - there's no reason to go on and on about it. I think the story might have been better if she didn't keep trying to justify her actions, and just did her thing a little more like Dexter in his TV show. He never tries to really explain or justify his actions, he just does his thing and tries not to get caught. The book was much longer than it needed to be, and it was hard not to just give up and stop reading. ( )