The Haters by Robyn Harding Assessment + Spoilers

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Did you like The Drowning Lady? Try The Haters by Robin Harding Assessment + Spoilers. What did I consider this psychological suspense about an writer who finds herself mercilessly harassed and trolled on-line? I’m right here to disclose all + protected spoilers and the ending defined!

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The Haters by Robyn Harding: Overview

  • To be printed on July 9, 2024 by Grand Central Publishing
  • 352 pages
  • Due to the writer for offering an advance copy for evaluate
  • Extra suspense books by this writer: The Get together (2017), Her Fairly Face (2018), The Association (2019), The Swap (2020), The Excellent Household (2021) and The Drowning Lady (2023).

The Haters by Robyn Harding: Jen’s Fast Take

Original photo of a copy of The Haters on a bookcase next to other pink thrillers.

Assessment of The Haters by Robyn Harding + Spoilers and the ending defined

I’ll attempt to keep away from singing the refrain of “Shake it Off.”

I can even keep away from making all the apparent jokes about reviewing a e book about an writer who loses it after somebody begins leaving scathing evaluations of her e book.

I learn The Association by Robyn Harding in 2019 and wasn’t an enormous fan. It additionally had a stalking theme a few sugar child who goes all Deadly Attraction on her sugar daddy and felt very Lifetime TV.

However I’m all the time prepared to offer an writer a second (or third) likelihood, so when Harding’s most up-to-date e book, The Drowning Lady, bought rave evaluations, I attempted it and thought it was good!

After I spotted that The Haters was all about subjects I do know properly: author-reviewer drama and on-line harassment, I made a decision to request it.

All in all, I discovered The Haters addictively readable.

Primary character Camryn is celebrating the publication of her debut novel, Burnt Orchid, which reads like a of parody unhealthy Nineties romantic suspense (suppose books like Lace or The Different Aspect of Midnight). And we get to learn lengthy excerpts of it!

However the different narrative within the e book, the one which exhibits poor Camryn descending from an enthusiastic debut writer to a brittle, haunted, suspicious lady, was actually well-done.

All of it begins with a one-star on-line evaluate that features the accusation that Camryn is utilizing the unhappy tales of the scholars she works with in her personal fiction.

At first Camryn is incredulous. She did no such factor! Then she makes the error of partaking with this nameless hater, even making an attempt to unmask them. Issues go WAY downhill from there.

I beloved that there have been so many suspects! Might this mysterious on-line troll be a jealous rival author? Camryn’s hunky youthful boyfriend? Her ex-husband’s insecure new accomplice? Possibly her daughter’s boyfriend, who thinks Camryn is making an attempt to interrupt them up?

However I used to be a little bit dissatisfied on the ending, which I’ll clarify with SPOILERS under

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As I suspected, each these chapters of Burnt Orchid I needed to undergo via AND the subplot of sweet sixteen drama on the college the place Camryn works have been key to fixing the thriller.

At work, Camryn was making an attempt to assist Abbie, a lady who practically died from an overdose at a celebration. Camryn is definite that imply lady Fiona was someway concerned within the overdose and in posting a video of the occasion.

Sure, Fiona was behind all of it!

  • First off, I suppose the rationale we needed to learn ALL these chapters of Burnt Orchid was due to the hearth scene.
  • Shane, a hacker employed by Camryn to unmask her tormentor, died in a suspicious home hearth.
  • Then Camryn noticed Abbie’s bandaged arm. When Abbie’s mom talked about her daughter suffered a extreme burn, Camryn confronted Abbie, who confessed.
  • Abbie advised Camryn that Fiona masterminded Camryn’s harassment.
  • Seeing that Camryn, her college counselor, was onto her and never backing off, Fiona advised tech-savvy Abbie that Camryn’s daughter Liza was the one who gave Abbie the medicine, then satisfied Abbie to harass Camryn on-line. 
  • Abbie went to Shane’s home to steal a pc which she thought incriminated her. She then began a small hearth, an thought she bought from Camryn’s e book. She assumed Shane would get up and escape.
  • Fiona’s college buddies lastly turned on her and advised the police the reality what occurred that night time on the social gathering: Fiona satisfied Abbie to take the medicine on the social gathering after which uploaded the video of her OD’ing to social media. Fiona denied it and was not charged.  
  • Abbie was charged with criminally negligent murder in Shane’s dying. She pled not criminally accountable on account of a psychological dysfunction (PTSD) and was given a brief sentence at a forensic psychiatric facility. 
  • Camryn moved to a counselor job at a unique college. After being dropped by her writer and nonetheless traumatized from the harassment, she determined to take a break from writing. 

Sure, I’m a former YA reviewer, however I can’t say I beloved the teenager parts of this e book, which I assumed have been the weakest half.

Fiona was kind of cartoonishly evil, like Regina George. And why not harass Liza, Camryn’s daughter, who a) was on the social gathering and a part of Fiona’s cover-up and b) appreciated Hugo, a man Fiona was additionally into.

The ending apart, I do suppose The Haters makes a superb summer season decide. And for those who haven’t learn The Drowning Lady, you must add that to your listing as properly!

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