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Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino is one of the most fun, chaotic listens I’ve had in a while. What starts as a painfully relatable housing market struggle quickly spirals into something much darker and a lot more unhinged.
Margo Miyake has lost 11 bidding wars and she is done. When she gets a tip about an off-market house in the perfect neighborhood, she inserts herself into the sellers’ lives and things spiral fast.
Watching her scheme and plot and rationalize increasingly unhinged behavior is equal parts hilarious and unsettling.
What makes Margo work as a character is that Kashino uses the house-hunting obsession to subtly examine the issues of race and class. This gives Margo more depth than you’d expect and makes her easier to root for than you probably should.
Narrator Cia Court is exceptional here. Her performance is controlled and sharp, which perfectly mirrors Margo’s increasingly desperate spiral. The pacing had a few uneven moments, but they didn’t derail my enjoyment at all. This was a bookstagram FOMO read for me and it lived up to the hype. It’s is a terrific debut. I’ll be looking forward to what comes next from Kashino. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If you’re a fan of complicated, hard-to-root-for women, go read my review of In Her Defense next.
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