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Stalker Girl by Rosemary Graham (Review #26)

"Carly Finnegan has a life. Not a perfect life, but a life. She has friends, a cute little sister, a passion for archaeology. But then Brian, her first love, breaks up with her, and Carly is crushed. When she discovers he's seeing someone new - Taylor Deen - she's devastated. Yet also curious. What does Taylor have that she doesn't?
A lot, according to the Internet. Taylor comes from a well-known family and lives in a big Greenwich Village brownstone. She has a talent for photography and the prizes to prove it. She sounds perfect. But is she? Carly sets out to see for herself. One glimpse is all she wants. But one glimpse isn't enough. Before long, Carly's risking everything to get closer to Taylor, the seemingly perfect girl with the seemingly perfect life.
How do you know when you've crossed the line between interest and obsession? And, once you've crossed it, can you ever go back?"

Review:
This book had an interesting framework, in some ways like the famous Arabian Nights story. A story that served only as the framework for many other stories. In this novel, the author separates the story into three parts and the first and third are the short pieces of the framework and the majority of the novel is part two: the back story. The backstory connects the dots for you and was an interesting way the author went about telling the story, but at the same time the longer the back story went on, the more impatient I became to see where Carly's story was going in present time. All the same, the story was good. It had me yelling at the book and trying to help the already doomed character, so to speak. It was overall very good.

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