[Fake Like Me] Download Û Barbara Bourland

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• Fake Like Me
• Barbara Bourland
• English
• 02 June 2020
• 9781538759516

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READ & DOWNLOAD Fake Like Me ☆ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB What really happened to Carey LoganAfter a fire decimates her studio including the seven billboard size paintings for her next show a young no name painter is left with an impossible task recreate her art in three months or ruin her fledgling career Homeless and desperate she flees to an exclusive retreat in upstate 35 stars rounded to 4I ll admit I m less than knowledgable about anything involving the art scene I am not cool hip or in the know about much these days other than Peppa Pig and Blippi but it was nice to delve into an adult story that did not feature talking pigs or a grown man wearing clothes that appear to fit a toddler This story is also being touted as a thriller which I guess it is in some ways but I would classify this as a literary thriller or a dramatic thought provoking crime fiction That s not a criticism merely a heads up to those looking for a classic thriller Where to start This glitzy sleek story is told in such a uniue format we do not learn the official name of out narrator who gives off an unstable vibe from the very beginning and I honestly found this so fascinating I was intrigued to know what drove this character what brought her to the art scene and how someone could so seamlessly slip into the lifestyle of another person Like I said this is really of a dark character study than a thriller but there s enough of a vein of suspense that keeps the reader hooked and intrigued throughout I found that once our nameless girl makes it to the art retreat Pine City that the pacing really picked up and I found myself fully investedI don t want to say much but if you decide to read this one and want to discuss in greater detail AKA SPOILERS we would love to have you join our Goodreads bookclub HERE I was provided a finished copy of this book for review via the publisher all thoughts are my ownWelcome to our June choice for the Suspenseful Clues and Thrilling Reviews Goodreads bookclub Everyone is invited to join in and you can find the discussion threads in the 2019 monthly reading tab HERE The Test upstate 35 stars rounded to 4I ll admit I m less than knowledgable about anything involving the art scene I am not cool hip or in the know about much these days other than Peppa Pig and Blippi but it was nice to delve into an adult story that did not feature talking pigs or a grown man wearing clothes that appear to fit a toddler This story is also being touted as a thriller which I guess it is in some ways but I would classify this as a literary thriller or a dramatic thought provoking crime fiction That s not a criticism merely a heads Teacher Evaluation in Music up to those looking for a classic thriller Where to start This glitzy sleek story is told in such a Reticence Custard Protocol #4 uniue format we do not learn the official name of out narrator who gives off an Peloponnesian War unstable vibe from the very beginning and I honestly found this so fascinating I was intrigued to know what drove this character what brought her to the art scene and how someone could so seamlessly slip into the lifestyle of another person Like I said this is really of a dark character study than a thriller but there s enough of a vein of suspense that keeps the reader hooked and intrigued throughout I found that once our nameless girl makes it to the art retreat Pine City that the pacing really picked Training for the New Alpinism up and I found myself fully investedI don t want to say much but if you decide to read this one and want to discuss in greater detail AKA SPOILERS we would love to have you join our Goodreads bookclub HERE I was provided a finished copy of this book for review via the publisher all thoughts are my ownWelcome to our June choice for the Suspenseful Clues and Thrilling Reviews Goodreads bookclub Everyone is invited to join in and you can find the discussion threads in the 2019 monthly reading tab HERE

READ & DOWNLOAD Fake Like Me ☆ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB New York famous for its outrageous revelries and glamorous artists And notorious as the place where brilliant young artist Carey Logan one of her idols drowned in the lake But when she arrives the retreat is a ghost of its former self No one shares their work No parties light up the deck No one speaks of Carey though A young un named painter with potential is poised to make waves in the art community with her collection of seven billboard size paintings When her apartment goes up in flames and decimates the entire collection she lies to her gallery and says that six have been safely crated and stored only the final painting she was still working on has been destroyed The gallery decides it s in their best interest to have her to re create the final piece which has already been sold in total secrecyNow homeless and without a single piece for her show she searches frantically for a studio available on short notice where she can re create all seven pieces in their entirety in just three monthsThe artist is in awe when an acuaintance gets her a spot at the exclusive artist retreat known as Pine City in upstate New York Pine City isn t just a resort it s also the name of the collective of five artists who own itCarey Logan was a member of Pine City and the idol of our main character Carey s work was brilliant and her life ended far too soon when she purposefully stepped into a lake and drownedWhen our no name artist arrives at Pine City she finds it s full of secrets The retreat is shadowed by Carey s presence and yet none of the dead artist s friends will speak about her she has been removed from every photo on the grounds and none of the remaining collective will share their workAcross the lake is Max our MC s childhood friend who has been famous most of her life for being wealthy and then earned fame with her photography skills Max swears total secrecy when she learns that her friend is re creating her entire show but soon it appears Max has motives for keeping her secretCarey Logan not only designed the home Max now lives in but she was represented by Max s husband Charlie The MC learns that Charlie s gallery is in a legal battle with Pine City over a rud final piece of art by Carey Logan What was the final piece Why is Pine City so secretive about their work and the legacy of Carey LoganFake Like Me fits solidly into the women s fiction genre but it also surprised me by being a dark satire as well as a thriller set in the glamorous contemporary art scene The characters are overwhelmingly pretentious and take themselves far too seriously but as in all good satires it was incredibly entertaining I wasn t expecting the mystery surrounding Carey Logan to be so compelling I couldn t turn the pages fast enough to uncover the truthThanks to Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review Fake Like Me is scheduled for release on June 18 2019For reviews visit wwwrootsandreadswordpresscom Teacher Evaluation in Music up the deck No one speaks of Carey though A young Reticence Custard Protocol #4 un named painter with potential is poised to make waves in the art community with her collection of seven billboard size paintings When her apartment goes Peloponnesian War up in flames and decimates the entire collection she lies to her gallery and says that six have been safely crated and stored only the final painting she was still working on has been destroyed The gallery decides it s in their best interest to have her to re create the final piece which has already been sold in total secrecyNow homeless and without a single piece for her show she searches frantically for a studio available on short notice where she can re create all seven pieces in their entirety in just three monthsThe artist is in awe when an acuaintance gets her a spot at the exclusive artist retreat known as Pine City in Training for the New Alpinism upstate New York Pine City isn t just a resort it s also the name of the collective of five artists who own itCarey Logan was a member of Pine City and the idol of our main character Carey s work was brilliant and her life ended far too soon when she purposefully stepped into a lake and drownedWhen our no name artist arrives at Pine City she finds it s full of secrets The retreat is shadowed by Carey s presence and yet none of the dead artist s friends will speak about her she has been removed from every photo on the grounds and none of the remaining collective will share their workAcross the lake is Max our MC s childhood friend who has been famous most of her life for being wealthy and then earned fame with her photography skills Max swears total secrecy when she learns that her friend is re creating her entire show but soon it appears Max has motives for keeping her secretCarey Logan not only designed the home Max now lives in but she was represented by Max s husband Charlie The MC learns that Charlie s gallery is in a legal battle with Pine City over a rud final piece of art by Carey Logan What was the final piece Why is Pine City so secretive about their work and the legacy of Carey LoganFake Like Me fits solidly into the women s fiction genre but it also surprised me by being a dark satire as well as a thriller set in the glamorous contemporary art scene The characters are overwhelmingly pretentious and take themselves far too seriously but as in all good satires it was incredibly entertaining I wasn t expecting the mystery surrounding Carey Logan to be so compelling I couldn t turn the pages fast enough to Greek Mythology uncover the truthThanks to Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review Fake Like Me is scheduled for release on June 18 2019For reviews visit wwwrootsandreadswordpresscom

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READ & DOWNLOAD Fake Like Me ☆ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB Her death haunts the cabins and the black lake lurking beneath the surface like a shipwreck As the young painter works obsessively in Carey's former studio uncovers strange secrets and starts to fall hard and fast for Carey's mysterious boyfriend it's as if she's taking her place But one thought shadows her every mo 2 starsBeyond its promising summary Fake Like Me is little than a predictable and unsatisfying ode to the female artistThis book is not doing any favours to modern and in particular abstract art If anything it confirms the notion that today anything can ualify as art and that critiues of modern art use an array of pretty metaphors that have little meaning or depthps by modern art I mean conceptual installation and performance art made by artist of dubious talent such as Tracey EminThis novel should not be pegged as a suspense since there is very little tension or mystery to be found in its story The first chapter sets an intriguing stage which is soon discarded as our mc travels to a retreat that is poorly described A lot of the details surrounding this place are given in a muddled manner so that I could never uite picture it in my mind The mc spends the first 30% of the novel in a self pitying stupor and she becomes increasingly obsessed with Carey Logan an artist who drowned in the retreat s lake Apparently the two not only look alike but they are both women so our mc obviously believes that it is them vs the patriarchy We are led to believe that there are only a handful of female artists a huge lie and that their work is therefore some sort of statement about their sex Sure way to embellish thingsWhile this book succeeds in describing the technical aspects of constructing huge canvases it fails to actually illustrate what these pieces on the whole look like Yes I know the colours that our nameless protagonist has used but what about the shapes and forms of her painting All those pages on the products she uses where she buys these products and how cumbersome these materials and tools can beall for what To have only a vague idea of what our mc s masterpieces look likeUsually I prefer slow burn reads but here the narrative really made it hard for me to remain engaged in the story This is partly due to the narrator whose namelessness is merely a cheap trick to convey her ambiguous or formless identity She was the typical solipsistic self pitying main character who believes that she is different from other women she is not as attractive or stylish or confident you know the drill Her reflections on her art and art itself were laughable and seemed to belong to a thirteen year old rather than a person in their 30s For that matter all of the characters sounded and acted in a way that seemed young They act like teenagers who have had little life experiencesand the other artists and characters are never properly introduced some have two or three lines here and there which made them very superficial The book is surprisingly tame and predictable yet the narrator seems to take herself and her artwork pretty if not all too seriouslyOverall I thought that this was a clich d story starring an irritating mc who attributes to her work all sorts of vapid or glib metaphorsIf you are looking for a novel that beautiful portrays the struggles of an ambitious young artist I recommend Self Portrait with BoyRead reviews on my blog View all my reviews on Goodreads Loretta Rose uncovers strange secrets and starts to fall hard and fast for Carey's mysterious boyfriend it's as if she's taking her place But one thought shadows her every mo 2 starsBeyond its promising summary Fake Like Me is little than a predictable and A Season of Ten Thousand Noses unsatisfying ode to the female artistThis book is not doing any favours to modern and in particular abstract art If anything it confirms the notion that today anything can Silent Thunder ualify as art and that critiues of modern art Si Dindo Pundido use an array of pretty metaphors that have little meaning or depthps by modern art I mean conceptual installation and performance art made by artist of dubious talent such as Tracey EminThis novel should not be pegged as a suspense since there is very little tension or mystery to be found in its story The first chapter sets an intriguing stage which is soon discarded as our mc travels to a retreat that is poorly described A lot of the details surrounding this place are given in a muddled manner so that I could never Si Dindo Pundido uite picture it in my mind The mc spends the first 30% of the novel in a self pitying stupor and she becomes increasingly obsessed with Carey Logan an artist who drowned in the retreat s lake Apparently the two not only look alike but they are both women so our mc obviously believes that it is them vs the patriarchy We are led to believe that there are only a handful of female artists a huge lie and that their work is therefore some sort of statement about their sex Sure way to embellish thingsWhile this book succeeds in describing the technical aspects of constructing huge canvases it fails to actually illustrate what these pieces on the whole look like Yes I know the colours that our nameless protagonist has Wizards Tale III used but what about the shapes and forms of her painting All those pages on the products she Wizards Tale III uses where she buys these products and how cumbersome these materials and tools can beall for what To have only a vague idea of what our mc s masterpieces look likeUsually I prefer slow burn reads but here the narrative really made it hard for me to remain engaged in the story This is partly due to the narrator whose namelessness is merely a cheap trick to convey her ambiguous or formless identity She was the typical solipsistic self pitying main character who believes that she is different from other women she is not as attractive or stylish or confident you know the drill Her reflections on her art and art itself were laughable and seemed to belong to a thirteen year old rather than a person in their 30s For that matter all of the characters sounded and acted in a way that seemed young They act like teenagers who have had little life experiencesand the other artists and characters are never properly introduced some have two or three lines here and there which made them very superficial The book is surprisingly tame and predictable yet the narrator seems to take herself and her artwork pretty if not all too seriouslyOverall I thought that this was a clich d story starring an irritating mc who attributes to her work all sorts of vapid or glib metaphorsIf you are looking for a novel that beautiful portrays the struggles of an ambitious young artist I recommend Self Portrait with BoyRead reviews on my blog View all my reviews on Goodreads