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Book Review of A Dangerous Woman

A Dangerous Woman
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Helpful Score: 4


I just finished A Dangerous Woman by Mary McGarry Morris - wow, it was pretty fantastic. My 3rd McGarry Morris read and possibly my favorite, although it's close. Her book Songs in Ordinary Time was in Oprah's Book Club, which is how I originally found this author. If you've read and McGarry Morris in the past, I highly recommend this book, she's at her best!

A Dangerous Woman is based on small-town living for a 32-year-old woman with mental fixations, ticks, and behavioral problems - worsened by the fact that she's been tormented and cast as an outsider all her life. The depth of this character is incredible. You're taken on her ups and downs between her wealthy aunt's mansion living to the boarding house and back again, all the while she's fixated on the other people in her life in a very stalker-ish way. It's peculiar and definitely a page-turner, hard to put down.