Greta Samuelson's Reviews > Not So Perfect Strangers

Tasha and Madison live in very different worlds.

Tasha lives with her abusive husband and her teenaged son. She has tried to leave (unsuccessfully), and is trying to ride this hell out until her son graduates high school later this year.
Madison is the wife of a very rich man and spends her time making sure she still looks young and beautiful to be sure he doesn’t trade her in for a newer, younger wife.

One night, Tasha has tried to leave again and is on her way back home because she cannot leave her son behind- a beautiful woman dressed to the nine’s runs towards her car as she is leaving a parking garage wanting to get into the car with her and there is a man in a tux chasing after her. She lets Tasha into her car…and into her life.

The story quickly turns into a fast paced, twisty ride. You won’t be able to guess what will happen next or who to trust.

The description says that author L.S. Stratton wrote this as a spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (a movie I’ve never seen) but I love how Stratton weaved in the differences and inequities of gender, class and race to this story.