Someone Like You – Becky Alexander

Summary

“It’s nice to finally meet you, Jemima,” Rebecca Sheridan says, her voice soft. I force a smile, and tug at the hem of my faded black dress. I need this job so badly, but I can’t let her see that. Just like she can’t know I have no money, that this isn’t my real accent. That most of my friends are gone… or dead.

I say yes when she offers me the role. I’ll soon learn Rebecca’s polished smile masks secrets far darker than my own.

Every day I rehearse. I spend hours running lines with the other lead, whose vacant expression and tearful outbursts make me uneasy. I try to ignore how Rebecca cuts me down then builds me up. How the others stop talking when I enter the room.

Why am I really here? Am I just a pawn in some twisted game?

No. There’s no way she can know who I really am.

What I did. What I’m capable of…

Right?

Review

Weird suggestion but DO NOT take the synopsis I just provided at face value, this book is not at all what it says it is. I don’t understand the comparisons to The Silent Patient, perhaps to Anatomy of a Scandal, but it just doesn’t deliver to the part of “thriller” that it is supposed to be.

“Every day I rehearse. I spend hours running lines with the other lead, whose vacant expression and tearful outbursts make me uneasy. I try to ignore how Rebecca cuts me down then builds me up. How the others stop talking when I enter the room.

Why am I really here? Am I just a pawn in some twisted game?

No. There’s no way she can know who I really am.

What I did. What I’m capable of…”

Someone Like You only incorporates the truth that there is a shady producer and the main character doesn’t feel safe in some situations.

Now, who this book actually could appeal to and what it is about.

We follow Jemima in her quest to get work as a graduated actress and her (barely their) friendships. We see her get in unsafe situations and a lot of the times, it felt like she got in danger solely for the author to get a point across and it didn’t feel natural when these situations happened.

A lot of the book also revolves around sex and there are sex scenes, so there’s that.

Not a book I would really recommend, the writing was lacking, and even if I had read it without the expectation of getting a thriller, I would only upgrade my rating of it to being a ‘meh book’.