Dead to Me Season 2 Summary
EPISODE 1
Judy Hale helped Jen Harding get rid of Steve Wood’s body. The next day, Jen’s neighbor, Karen, visited her and mentioned their CCTV that showed Steve getting inside her house. Judy is back in Jen’s house again, she had nowhere else to go, and Jen also needed her. The next day, someone knocked on the door – they saw Steve. Continue reading Dead to Me Season 2 (Summary)
Grace met Jack in a park, where her younger sister (who has down’s syndrome) is dancing alone. While other people were staring at Millie, Jack approached them and danced with Millie. Grace found it hard to find a man who could accept that she has responsibility with Millie (because their parents don’t want her). Jack was everything she was looking for, and she fell in love with him immediately because he was so perfect. When he asked her to marry him, there was no doubt she said yes.
Millie fell down the stairs (which Millie then told Grace that Jack pushed her down the stairs). They pushed through with the wedding while Millie was at the hospital. After the wedding, they went to Thailand for their honeymoon, and that was when Grace found out who Jack really was.
Jack only married her because he wanted someone he could torture, someone whom no one is gonna look for – Millie was that someone and Grace was just a way of getting Millie. Grace had several attempts to escape, but Jack always outsmarted her. She never found the chance to run for a year, and she was pressured because it would just be a few months until Millie lived with them. When Millie lives with them, Jack will then start torturing her.
Every time Grace tries to escape, she is punished, either by being prohibited from seeing Millie, taking away privileges, or being locked in the basement. Still, she tries her best to escape. One Sunday, when Mrs. Goodrich asked to see both of them because Millie was having trouble sleeping. She has then prescribed sleeping pills. When Grace saw Millie again the next week, Millie handed her the sleeping pills she gathered every night. Millie just asked her to kill Jack, and Grace made her believe that she flushed the drugs in the toilet, but the truth was she kept it in her shoe, thinking how she’d get Jack to drink it.
Grace finally had the chance to let Jack drink the pills. She crushed it secretly and then poured it into Jack’s whiskey. She was having drinks with Jack regularly because as per her request, but on the day Jack lost his case for the first time, they drank together, and she added the crushed pills in his glass. It knocked him off and gave her enough time to go to Thailand. Both of them were planning to have a vacation in Thailand. Since she didn’t know how to go to the airport, she ended up asking Esther. Esther picked her up from home and dropped her at the airport.
While in Thailand, she kept on leaving messages to Jack, asking him to call her. She told the people she met in Thailand and the receptionist that Jack would just be a few days late since finishing some paperwork for the case. As days passed, she left more frantic voicemails to Jack.
Since she no longer received any calls from Jack, she called his friend, Adam. Adam looked for Jack but found no trace of him. Together with the police, they went inside the house. They found Jack’s body in the basement. Grace was then informed in Thailand, and she came rushing back home, nervous about how she’d handle the situation, to make sure that no one would suspect that she killed Jack by sneaking sleeping pills into his whiskey.
From Thailand, Grace was picked up by Esther. Grace doesn’t want to talk to Esther because Esther is very observant. During dinners with her before, she always asks questions and constantly reaches out to Grace, like she’s looking for any sign of imperfection.
Esther insisted that they have coffee first before talking to anyone else. She informed Grace that Jack didn’t die of a drug overdose, but because of dehydration – because he was locked inside a basement that can only be opened on the outside. Esther also asked Grace about the cellar, painted red, with battered portraits of women hanging on the wall. Esther clarified this with her because Jack mentioned Millie would have a Red Room, but she said that her room would be Yellow when they met Millie.
Grace was anxious because it looked like Esther had figured out what she had done. However, Esther said that the two of them were the last ones who saw Jack alive when he waved by the window — and Grace realized that Esther was helping her.
Author: B.A. Paris
Finished reading this on July 26, 2018
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What I liked about it:
⦁ Easy to read. It was such a short read for me, probably because I expected the novel to get more complicated. However, it is good that this was such an easy read – minimal characters, uncomplicated way of narration.
⦁ Plot. The plot will make me look forward to how the book will end. Since the story revolves around the wife, saving herself from her husband – wanting to know if they’d get held made me hang on to the story.
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Since she was a kid, Scarlett Dragna has been writing letters to Legend, the master of Caraval. She wanted to play in Caraval, along with her younger sister, Donatella Dragna. When Scarlett was about to get married, she sent one last letter to Legend, and at that time, she got a reply and an invitation. Scarlett, Tella, and Julian (the sailor) went to Caraval, Tella was kidnapped by Legend, and it turns out that the game revolves around Tella. The first player that finds Tella wins and can get a wish as a reward. Scarlett and Julian helped each other and eventually fell in love with each other (initially Tella and Julian; however, Julian admitted that he was just using Tella to get hold of the ticket to Caraval.) The two of them played the game, looking for clues and helping each other. They have been warned that most parts of the game are not genuine. However, they were still fearful (they even got hurt) when they saw Scarlett’s father and fiancée. They are the person Tella and Scarlett are running away from, but they follow them to Caraval, and they want to take the siblings home, to punish them.
After a couple of struggles, Scarlett finally met Tella, and to her relief, she was fine. However, Julian is already dead. He was killed by Legend because he admitted the truth – that Julian is a part of a game. When Tella and Scarlett reconciled, there was still something wrong. Tella was convinced that Caraval was a safe place, and she revealed that she was in love with someone in Caraval named Daniel, but when Daniel entered, Scarlett recognized him as Legend. She warns Tella, but she just ends up getting tied. After a while, their father enters, accompanied by Scarlett’s fiancé. They were arguing. Tella mentions that she can do anything for Scarlett, which was provoked by Legend, and Tella ends up jumping from the balcony. Since Tella is already dead, their father no longer has any control over Scarlett and ends up leaving the Caraval with her supposed to be fiancé. It was a good thing that they could get rid of their father, but Scarlett was devastated because Tella and Julian were dead. She wept – and then wished Tella back to life.
Scarlett’s love for Tella brought her back to life, and they reunited. It was then revealed that Tella made a game with Legend since Tella believes that her sister loves her enough to give her back to life. She has been exchanging letters with Legend. Also, it was revealed that who they know as Legend was not the real Legend.
At the end of the novel, Tella and Scarlett attend a party. At that party, Scarlett saw Julian. She was so relieved to find him alive, although he was already talking to another lady at that time. Nevertheless, she approached Julian, and they spoke, and he admitted that he is a part of the game and is related to Legend.
(To add to the story, Scarlett and Tella’s grandmother named Annalise broke Legend’s heart by marrying another man.)
The End of Caraval by Stephanie Garber.
Author: Stephanie Garber
Finished reading on April 26, 2018
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When I read it: I liked the setting at first, although it got confusing when they entered Caraval. I just could not imagine what Caraval looks like. I’m not sure if this is supposed to appear like a Carnival, if the game is a celebration, or if this is supposed to be a dark setting… Does Caraval look like an old palace where players get lost? Scarlett and Julian run, hide and chase someone, and I am a little confused with how I could imagine these scenes because one moment it was magical, but then it is suddenly dark on the next. Continue reading Caraval by Stephanie Garber (Book Review)
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What I liked about it:
⦁ Rare Plot: It’s not a usual novel that revolves around death. It does not start with a mysterious death by a serial killer that detectives chase the entire book. It begins with no death at all, just a couple of weird things they could not explain.
⦁ Many questions kept me going, but it never got to the point that I was confused. Also, the questions that I had were all answered in the end.
⦁ Connections that I never saw coming. There is more to the villain and his actions at the near end. In the novel, it turns out that there was a reason why the primary victims, Martie and Dusty, were chosen. Continue reading False Memory by Dean Koontz (Book Review)
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Martie Rhodes lives with her husband, Dusty Rhodes, and their dog, Valet. She is a video game designer, and she accompanies her best friend, Susan Jagger, to the Doctor weekly to treat her phobia. She had been taking Susan to her Doctor, Dr. Ahrima,n for multiple sessions,s and although she couldn’t see any progress, Martie was assured by the Doctor that she was doing better. Continue reading False Memory by Dean Koontz (Book Summary)
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What I liked about it:
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Julia (Jules) Abbott was dragged back to the old Mill House when Danielle (Nel Abbott) died. She had to take care of the 15 years old daughter she left behind. Also, she had to look into the details behind her death. At the moment, the cause of her death was suicide, but it was more complicated. Continue reading Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (Book Summary)
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What made me choose this book: I’ve been looking for books that are as good as the previous book I read, which is “The Roanoke Girls.” Aside from the very intriguing title, I was curious about the entire story since I was expecting this to be a story filled with magic. I was hoping that the “Keeper of Lost Things” is a person who’s found in the gates of heaven. I was wrong, but I was not disappointed. Continue reading The Keeper of Lost Things By Roth Hogan (Book Review)
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