One additional detail thrown in was that our narrator lives in the teeniest home on the block named, Crayola, because the rooms were painted in primary colors.

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All of the residents seem happy and take such an interest in each other's lives--even a "girls night out" which Kat is invited to and is glad to be included in this elite group, until they mention the Spreadsheet! The neighborhood is a total swinger’s colony, and Kat is completely insecure, while Doug seems to be contemplating his options. Where I come from standing on the sidewalk talking about which one of the male neighbors has a tongue that can make you quiver is SEX TALK. I would still check out another book by the author though, as I think her writing has good potential!As increasingly sinister and frighteningly personal notes arrive, each one stabs deeper into the heart of Kats insecurities, paranoia, and most troubling, her past. Though there's a lot of talk about sex, there's only one barely steamy scene, and it's within the bonds of holy matrimony, so yawn . sListen, I am not a prude but I feel like it is not fair or really cool to not give readers a heads up about the incredible amount of highly sexual content of this book. It was cheesy, in ways, but kind of interesting thanks to the extra dialogue that reflected the psychoanalysis I mentioned earlier.

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Kat her husband Doug and baby daughter, Sadie, move to the perfect neighborhood on the perfect block with the most wonderfulest perfectest neighbors ever! My favorite anxiety quote: "It's ok if Doug (husband here) pities me, just a little, but if he knew everything, he'd be ddisgusted. Three layers of flavors infused with chicken, egg, and almonds melt on my tongue, the finish topped off with whispers of orange blossom, saffron, ginger, cumin, and turmeric.

Life in her new neighborhood isn't that perfect, someone is leaving her threatening notes and it turns out her neighbors are a bunch of creepy swingers who want Kat and Doug as fresh meat for their sex sandwiches or whatever it is that swingers do with fresh meat. It was exhausting - pages full of self-doubt, not feeling good enough for her husband, who was better, more handsome, kinder, etc. However, there are moments in the story where I felt a pang of sympathy for her, and for that reason she isn’t the least likable character in the whole book. How about a quote from the meat of the suspense: "Just because your paranoid doesn't mean nobody's after you.

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From a threatening note found outside their door to deep, rather disturbing secrets, Kat instantly becomes extremely worried. A story with so many twists and turns, and turns and twists, and then a real bender, and character perspectives and sudden format changes and herring so red even Agatha Christie would be jealous that it is almost exactly like reading a mystery novel. If topics such as open marriages/partner swapping offend you, you may want to miss this one, as several reviewers seem to have been put off by some of the content. We know nothing really about any of the neighbours beyond a snapshot, we learn next to nothing about Doug and Kat comes over as more neurotic than sympathetic a lot of the time, so as a reader I wasn't much invested in the outcome by the time it was all over. I disliked that book because the suspense was bogged down in all the over wrought hand wringing self doubt that killed the book for me from getting anywhere and sadly it is shades of that for me here.Neighborly follows Kat and Doug and their new baby, Sadie, as they move into a seemingly idyllic neighborhood full of interesting characters. I lift up the lid and inhale the aromas of what looks like a flaky pot pie, dusted with powdered sugar, the top scored in a crosshatch pattern. So Kat and Doug are super excited to move into the coveted neighborhood of Aurora Village, AKA the AV. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.